#buff Himeko and Beidou when???

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My favorite genre of Mihoyo character is ones where other characters will describe very specific things about their physical appearance only for said things to either straight up not appear or barely appear in their designs

Subset of this would be characters who are described as behaving a certain way only for their movements to be restricted to stock animation

(If I missed a character in the tags, it’s because I ran out of room. Feel free to add on)

#genshin impact #Honkai impact #buff Himeko and Beidou when??? #‘wow you’re really muscular! are you an athlete-‘ cuts to Kevin who has the same scrawny build as every other guy #Mihoyo you can’t tell me how intimidating a character is supposed to look and then give me some short guy with a baby face #if I saw Cyno irl my first thought wouldn’t be ‘ah I’m about to die’ #it would be ‘ah a furry’ #Mihoyo are cowards for not giving us chubby Ganyu #it’s not that they don’t know how to model these things #just look at their npcs or background characters #they’re just to big cowards to do it with their main characters #it’s getting boring #at least Honkai has enough variation and fewer characters so there aren’t too many that look like siblings #with Genshin it’s just straight up getting boring and repetitive #if I see any ‘but creating unique character models would be hard’ comments I will write a rant post and tag you in it #himeko murata #Beidou #kevin kaslana #honkai kalpas #carole peppers #Ganyu #kiana kaslana #on the animation thing #maybe if they spent more time on how the characters move and express themselves there would be less controversy between language versions #body language and facial expressions say a lot #stop making the VAs carry the characters #Childe #xiao #‘but it would be hard-‘ Genshin alone has a net worth of over 4 billion dollars #Mihoyo has the resources to do ‘hard’

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Your rant about honkai's characters looking generic when compared to WfM's character designs (which i fucking love too) reminded me how a while back genshintwt accused honkai's male characters of all looking the same and honkaitwt lost their fucking mind, and as much as I love our honkai bois I'm not going to sit here and pretend their designs are revolutionary (especially since they made Carole's mom look more masculine than 80% of the male designs they've created, and I still haven't forgotten Kiana describing Himeko as a "valkyrie with beefy arms", what a joke)

Genshintwt accused honkai men of all looking the same???? Genshin???? The fandom that lusts after the 20 dudes with almost the exact same body type/shape and absolutely looses their minds over the slightest bit of muscle/booba???? Oh that's hilarious.

Like, the honkai men also look pretty similar for the most part (minus Siegfried and sometimes Welt depending on who drew him). I just think that's a bit of the pot calling the kettle black there.

But ya, hoyo has a running problem with describing characters bodies as one way and just... not modeling it. Aside from the Himeko example you brought up, there's also a bunch of characters going up to Kevin and going "woah! You look so athletic," Baizhu being described as looking sickly, Beidou being described as tall and buff, Ganyu gaining weight easily... I'm pretty sure there's more instances, these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. Idk man, I just feel like if your fandom is surprised that one of your main characters is canonically scrawny, there's a bit of a design problem

The whole thing just makes me find Witch from Mercury's character designs incredibly refreshing. It's just nice to see a series that takes a pretty typical anime art style and use it to depict so many of the different ways people can look.

#honkai impact #honkai rambling #i like twinks and fem boys as much as the next bisexual but come on mihoyo- give us some variety #i spend so much time drawing my headcanon appearances for these characters that i genuinely forget what they look like in game #see: literally any drawing of Kevin I've done #theres also a tone of practical reasons its better to have a variety appearance for large casts #it help create a more unique silhouette. it helps the characters look more visually distinct. and most important for mihoyo probably- #it means you can change the hair and outfit while still making obvious who is who #theres panels where i genuinely cant tell the difference between Kallen Theresa and Kiana #side note but if mihoyo gives us any more “they look young/like a young adult but there actually really old” characters #i will blow a gasket #i don't even want GILFs- I want studio ghibli old people #I want characters like Dola (Castle in the Sky) and the elderly pirate lady from Yona of the Dawn #dont questions both my examples being pirates #but ya: variety good