Talk:Xingchen/@comment-28951715-20171117174106/@comment-53539-20171118160908

Both Star and Uni's first designs had "Miku concerns". Uni "looked like Miku Append" and star had something similar crisis. Considering the problem has been around for a while now, and even SeeU is notable to be based on her (one of her concepts has her in the exact same pose as Miku's V2 art), its safe to say the influence of Miku is long established... What with miki, Gackpo, Nana + the Macnes, Sonika and Big Al all taking notes from her and the CV series in general. Then there was Ring...

A lot of this is like this, everyone got to know Miku first and many artists or producers worked on Miku or had contact with her. Given its easier to sell what people are familiar with then a completely random concept, its not a wonder so many vocaloid refer back to her. Its even been seen in non-Vocaloid stuff, and I'm not talking about UTAU. I think fans over react to this a lot...

But...There is a line drawn when something looks too similar to her. I think this is where people step in a speak up, as if they're trying to protect the vocaloid from being accused of being a Miku-clone. Even though the Chinese fans we not so concerned, I think due to the pressure from the general reaction otherseas, or from advance of the studio not to make her look too Miku-like, they changed the design. I think, pardon me for speculating, that there is a stigma among the studios about looking too Miku-like, which tends to show itself more with the fans work then anything else. Fans bring designs that may be too Miku-like and out of fear of going there, the studios overhaul the design or ask for overhauls or the fans reactions push a redesign in general.

The problem is, as I've said before... When you look at Miku her design is basically pulling up a lot of popular design tropes in anime. Therefore, its not too difficult to accidently make something that LOOKS like Miku without trying. We have the long boots, the school uniform and the pigtails tropes without trying and these 3 are indeed very popular straight off the bat. :-/