>>11599224Mao being directly developed from Taonyao is a stretch. It's more likely that work on Taonyao had long been abandoned and that Mao is the result of Blade being called in to design his own set of girls on the block 2 body. Mao and Taonyao don't really even look all that similar when considering Blades artstyle and mechanical design quirks. Taonyao looks like his non super deformed Sylphy II, and Mao looks like the vtuber Miao
