Talk:GUMI/@comment-153.107.192.211-20181205033334/@comment-53539-20181205113432

I think their referring to the fact two of Gumi's Megpoid designs have her with her shoes off.

Its just the artist trying to give some sort of personification and uniqueness to the design even when their similar.

Sweet's for example inV4 is simply trying to making her look more innocent and curious as "Sweet" represents the child-like side of the Gumi vocal. ITs suppose to be her being playful and cute. Its the same as Adults isn't smiling and standing up straight trying to look "mature". Power's is trying to look energetic and ready while whispers former and polite and English is trying to look elegant and formal. The artist did a better job at this then V3 Adult, Sweet, etc.

Gumi also has a retro-esque design and often is based loosely on teen fashion from the 70s and 80s, hence things like a boob tube. *shrugs* I was born into the 80s and thats how I know, things were like this until the early 90s in terms of fashion style. Her original V2 design is "retro futuristic" and she wouldn't have looked out of place in a pre-90s anime, just look at a anime like Dirty Pair. Aside from being a little too detailed, if Gumi's original design appeared in that show we'd have thought nothing of it as it is more fitting with this sort of evolution of artstyle. Whereas Miku was based more on the modern "digital future" with "cyber on normal clothes".