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If it were two human characters who were only differentiated by hair and color you'd be fine with it.
I know that for a fact, viper and angie. you dumby otakus

Okay well first of all I would probably not call them "good designs"

I like anime but that doesn't mean I think it always has good character design. I can like it and still recognize its flaws. (and I'm not an otaku I'm not vipershark jeeeessh)

if you analyze any character with the prerequisites that its not a good character, of course you'll dislike it at first, even if the character is just fine.

Um
First impressions are kind of important in the art world. And besides that, designs should at least give you a hint towards -something- about the character. This design hints me toward "NPC" which is not what it's supposed to do at all. This isn't about "prerequisites" this is just how character design works. "Just fine" is kind of sucky standards for a character of apparently elevated importance. It's not "just fine" for the role.

I think that's whats happening here because all of you guys' arguments as to why belle is a poorly designed character seem to stem from the same general thought that similar looking characters coexisting in a work is a bad or unnatural thing.

Did you even read?? Because I said it was okay AS LONG AS THEY HAD SOMETHING CHARACTERISTIC ABOUT THEM. So that they're not,

sorry to say it but boring. I cannot connect with a character I find boring. I would love to not have to throw around words like this but people keep asking me to justify something that should be OBVIOUS.

Guys, COME ON.
What's with all the buttpats?! Nobody in here has even said that Belle's design was good, just that it was "acceptable" or "it might get better" at best. WHY EVEN ARGUE THAT?

You can argue that my way wouldn't make it better, but nobody has done that. You can argue that it's good the way it is, but nobody has done that.

Okay, so we shouldn't try my suggestions that would apparently make it better (since nobody has said otherwise!), when quite a few people people have expressed that it seems inadequate, just because some people think it's sort of adequate maybe? When half the board doesn't like something and offers a solution, the other half of the board has to defend it? It's okay to say you disagree and that you like it, but nobody's even saying that. Everyone's saying that it's okay and nobody has to actually try to fix it DESPITE PEOPLE NOT LIKING IT. I was under the impression that when people don't like something, especially when a significant amount of the board doesn't, you try to fix it. You guys are arguing a lazy man's argument that serves to let people make mediocre designs for the sake of keeping people from having to do extra effort or from having their feelings hurt. It's just stupid and goes against the purpose of the site.

I don't get what you're trying to accomplish. At all.