The vented hair in the original hairstyle, with its tips floating out, is silhouette-defining and unique for holoEN and instantly recognizable and visually reinforces her character being supernatural.
It being silhouette-defining is why the new design's silhouette, without it, confused me.
It's slightly relieving that she just brought it up to mention it's not gone forever.
I think the new design is meant to be informal, so the vent hair not floating sort of fits with looking more like a mortal. But for me the new hair mostly pattern-matches to Ina, which is unfortunate. Anyone else think this? A visual collision with the other talents might have been out of the designer's scope of consideration, or they might think it's different enough.
Also in the new design, the blue highlights visible in the vents make it look like she's wearing a bow. I'm neutral on this. It's cute, but also this is Kronii.
(repost, I originally accidentally posted this in a tits-whinging focused thread)