>>55792245Most popular characters on MyFigureCollection. Out of the top 20 only one of them has animal ears, another one can transform and has a horn sometimes. These are the character designs anime fans like enough that they're willing to spend hundreds of dollars on their figures. Yes, there are other factors that might affect the list, like character's actual personality, popularity of the series, etc. But these are figures on a figure collecting site, no one if going to buy a figure of a shitty looking character just because they have a nice personality.
There's clearly a difference between what vtubers think is good character design and what everyone else actually thinks is good design.