Talk:Hibiki Lui/@comment-67.167.96.153-20130101085700/@comment-53539-20130101104840

Its complex and talked about to death, it even got noticed in the Japanese side of the fandom too so its not something the overseas fandom made up overnight.

It has much to do with Ring and Lui sharing a lot of common design traits that the CV series have on their designs, like the essence of the core design of Miku and the Kagamine was reused for them and just altered slightly. Best I could ever describe it. I honestly never saw the reason people hated comparisons, if you told me Ring as a derivative of Miku I would thought it was true, but knowing she is not I just don't care and I've exhausted myself explaining why this isn't such a big thing as people make it out to be. People complain in this fandom of annoying things like the relationship between Len and Rin, yet those same people will waste their time arguing if or if not they look like other vocaloids.

As its been said before, even Miku's design wasn't unique as per such, and the same things which bore her into reality can play into effect again and bring new designs that bear resemblance to her... Intentionally or unintentionally. There is only so many designs you can do before the elements of one character resemble another.

Mind you, part of why I've never seen why its so important to argue over this with some, is when I was in the beyblade fandom we used to trying and find character of similar appearance to beyblade characters. This was in the early 00's... It was great fun actually, we had a laugh with it. That and as one guy at the Turner Prize award here in the UK said, its getting harder and harder for artists to find unique designs that are not already interfering with copy right laws, and that originally is being more and more pushed. While I disagree with a tutor who once said "there is no such thing as originality because everythings been done before" I do also agree with the guy fro the Turner Prize award on his notes about the subject.

When you consider Miku's design itself has nothing "new" on it, you pretty much have to admit its a difficult one. :-/