>>6605636Unfortunately this. Voice and personality are important of course but when you go from being passably cute, almost sexy but more just cute cartoony, to turning into a deformed toddler almost looking from a kid's saturday morning cartoon, that's hard to ignore.
Even if the design change wasn't jarring enough, she is literally affixed staring to the sides at all times and isn't even that easy to recognize with the hoodie covering up most of the antennae. Show the last-year me the new Pika and I'd have said "that must be her little sister or a knockoff or something, there's no way that's her.. right." New costumes are nice but this was way WAY more than just new clothes, it's a total redraw of the character. And it's way worse-looking than before. I'd say the current one is like a 4-5/10 and the old Pika was around 7-8/10. Even if you had the absolute best voice/personality in the world speaking fluent English and Japanese, people aren't gonna want to watch you as much if your character is weird/ugly looking. In a total vacuum of vtubers it wouldn't look bad, but compared to what we're used to and to what Pika herself used to look like, it's a bad downgrade.
