>>28966635The fur placement and coloration looks like a puffy skirt and stockings, they often do this upward tilt in anime, Brionne's flesh thing looks like a dress and it has pigtails. So both have two very obvious female visual clues. Just because you like how they did Braixen's more doesn't make it any less feminine than Brionne. Both can hardly go through as male, at least as long as you don't turn willfully a blind eye to it.
>>28966920And Brionne has the excuse of merely flesh things. Glaceon has literally a hime cut out of flesh. It's not new, they have always done it, it just looks really half assed sometimes. It doesn't make Braixen not magically look like she doesn't wear a skirt anymore. You just find it visually more appealing because it consists of less tacked on shit, but the problem is Braixen actually has fur to do this shit more natural, the sea lion/seal/whatever pinniped Popplio's line is supposed to represent hasn't though, so it had to be done with flesh flaps.