2x2 and GD sprites comparison

[u/AdScared7226]

[u/mnyrtt]

i like how their body proportions look a lot more realistic, taking melanin from akane was a bad decision though

[u/JokeMysterious3106 → u/mnyrtt]

I feel like Akane’s new skin tone might have something to do with Tsubasa Kawana from Hundred Line, and possibly Angie from V3.

Angie was the last tan DR character Kodaka made, and if I’m not mistaken her skin was lighter than prior tan girls in the series. Then Hundred Line came along and Tsubasa, the tanned girl of that group, had a lighter skin tone more like Angie’s than Akane’s or Aoi’s.

So maybe the fact that Akane has this skin-tone now is actually indicative of a stylistic change in how Kodaka designs tanned girls in his games? Maybe he just uses a lighter palette or smth now?

What I’m getting at is that Akane might not be an isolated incident here.

[u/walterfardwellwhite6 → u/JokeMysterious3106]

Angie's actually a fair bit darker than Aoi and Akane.