Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-137.147.23.232-20151103062538/@comment-30602727-20151104142745

"Top it off the response to the original art PowerFX were going to use was crazy. The flame haired woman was not "ugly", it just wasn't in the style everyone was used to. This had happened with Sweet Ann; the irony is she is just an altered picture of a Lena Horne Poster, a singer who was both famous and considered in her day attractive... So they basically called Lena Horne "ugly". This also was a problem with Clara and Bruno and a problem about any art that drifts too far from the anime-desu-desu style. If its not anime "cute" nobody seems to want to know in the western fandom. Heck, look at VY2 and how often people lazily just use Roro to represent him."

I don't think the issue was just because it was "ugly". Most of them were angry because the art did not represent Misha at all and because it was nothing like what Syo/Misha wanted. Miss Allegri showcased some old concept art where Ruby was darker skinned, right? That's what people expected if anything. I'm not saying the "ugly" comments didn't happen, but I thought it was more because that design was not something anyone expected because it was hinted that the official and final would be a darker skinned female based on the art Miss Allegri showed.