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- ↓ 18.50
- ꩜ 20.72
- ↑ 100.00
{C}{C} → High Jump Kick : 50
{R}{R}{C}{C} → Fire Spin : 210
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Nos
I miss the original May design
Sam
Which is?
Nos
The Ruby and Sapphire look. I prefer the bandana to the headband and jacket to the tanktop
Ambassador
There are also some tweaks in the anatomy and so on whenever they do these character redesigns. GF’s character design typically just follows prevailing trends in contemporary anime (albeit with a several-year delay) and that’s understandable, but the eyes in particular can make a character feel very different. That can still really vary depending on the artist, but May’s overall aesthetic (clothes, anatomy, eyes!) shifted from cool to cute.
Despite the superficial similarities, I prefer to think of them as completely different characters in much the same way most people think of more drastic redesigns (ORAS Archie, ORAS Tabitha, etc.) as different characters from their RS counterparts.
Twylis
Which there’s a canon precedent to them being two different characters, what with RS Archie and Maxie appearing in USUM after the ORAS redesigns were already established. Giovanni pulled them from “alternate worlds”, and SM and USUM’s Anabel is also stated to be from an alternate world, so it’s reasonable to say that every official design is “canon” in some way. On top of Zinnia mentioning the concept in ORAS itself, though at the time that bit just got thrown into the goofy Hyrule Historia-esque “multiple timeline” theories.
I almost put a “every official design from the main series” qualifier there, but honestly, anime is probably fair game too at this point. Spinoff games and manga might be more of a stretch.
Daedric Etwahl
Funny, I actually find myself really, really disliking the designs from back in the Gen 3 era, I think the designs back then were super boring and the colors felt extremely washed out. The ORAS redesigns gave them a lot more detail and life in their colors
Ambassador
I don’t see how that’s funny