Talk:YANHE/@comment-67.197.61.108-20130623200841/@comment-5051846-20130624121438

@Xey:

This is true, but of course it doesn't matter, since it could easily be due to limiting factors in the anime style. As anime characters are defined by their hair many people make your comparisons when hair becomes similar. And it's true, they could be genderbends is drawn deliberately. Even if the design would be a kind of random.

However, in anime similar hair is not a design fault because hair styles can't logically be used in comparisons unless they are very distintive (crazy twirls, hair decorations, very unsual style, etc.). It is illogical because there are only so many colours in the world, white being a common one for cartoon hair, to judge that Yan He looks the same as Piko from her hair is illogical because you are using real-life rules in anime, and anime has a big same-face thing going on whereas real life doesn't. Since Yan He's hair is very plain and basic, lacking even Piko's small feature of a note-shape, it's colour alone can't be used as proof of influence if that is what you were trying to construe.

You may have never ever thought it was a design fault but just in case I'd like to point this out. ^u^

The colour schemes are actually different too when you look at the details.

Yan He:

White (main colour)

Light blue-teal (secondary colour)

Semi-dark Red-pink (secondary colour)

Piko:

White (main colour)

Black (main colour)

Medium blue-teal (secondary colour)

Light grey (seconday colour)

Not that I'm saying you're mad for drawing a connection, but it's a connection based on instincts drawn from real life and we're looking at cartoons here. :)