Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.71.121.131-20150614195741/@comment-5051846-20150621204922

I think the 'you can alter it in fanart' argument doesn't quite work – you can alter anything in fanart, so it would make all design criticism invalid. orz Official designs are going to influence people's perception of a Vocaloid regardless of what we can change in our own time.

We can't all draw fanart, and all you can do then is imagine Dex and Daina without animal ears. I don't think this would really help most fans. People are often going to be exposed to them with their ears and tail, which will drive people that don't like it away even if they can personally draw fanart with different designs. Does that make sense? D:

What I am saying is: even if we can change a design in fanart, the parts of the design we don't like will still affect us and influence our opinion of a Vocaloid.