>>20140391Don't underestimate how much a good design can make a difference. First impressions matter. It takes a lot of work to turn around a bad first impression, like I did not like Nina's debut because every third word was honey, but she turned it around. I may not be big on Luxiem because they're not girls, but at least they stood out from each other on day one and their designs are distinct. Meanwhile with Noctyx I found all their designs to be off-putting generic shoujo/otomege male designs, and I still can't really tell them apart beyond their colours and the guy with the cat ears. Having a good design is table stakes for vtubers, especially for established companies like niji, and they are all really huge letdowns. You have to work really fucking hard to come back from a bad design debuff.
Their designs also tell me they're aimed straight at fujos, much more than Luxiem was. Since I am not a fujo I am being told, in almost as many words, that this batch is not for me.
