Talk:Ring Suzune/@comment-178.222.159.147-20140722202315/@comment-53539-20140725073113

As someone who noticed what everyone was talking about, understood how they saw it, but really didn't care... But seemed to have left everyone with the impression it really bothered me (oh brother ¬_¬)... I could have seen it impacting her overall popularity in the long run.

However, I blame any similarities on her being designed by "fans" in the first place. There is a great scene in the first episode of "Fosters home for imaginary friends" where they flat out say that sometimes kids aren't very creative and just copy what they already see. It can happen to anything and on top of that... People will serve a culture.

ITs like when you think of a Super hero, what is the first few design aspects that will come to mind?

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11115/111153823/3724198-3709792-8545392712-71977.jpg

The same thing happens with a lot of the competitions for Vocaloid and this one was no exception. And even though the original art has Ring in a maids uniform, also note that maid uniforms are popular in Otaku Japanese culture. Hence why Tone Rion, being aimed at this culture, is one. So you end up cycling around the same ideas, even if there is differences between characters, even if its not intentional. It simply can't be helped.

After all, if there is nothing culturally at all at play here, characters that existed BEFORE Miku came along shouldn't have any resemblance to Miku at all, never mind the ones that came after. :-/