>>77118050It's just the same shitty originality argument across all media fandoms for all eternity. Kizuna Ai is the first vtuber, Shylily is the first orca girl, Gura is the first shark girl, Coco is the first dragon girl, Doom is the first FPS, WOW is the first MMO, GoT is the first fantasy show, and we can go on and on. It would be hard to hold any of that up in court because it's all bullshit and not actually true.
It's not even worth trying to decipher the lineage of this kind of design concept. We pay attention and compare to what we're most or initially exposed to.
