Sabrblade wrote:Black Hat wrote:Sabrblade wrote:The new Masterpiece mantra: "Show-accurate no matter what! ...Unless the designer is horny."
Honestly, compared to some previous MPs, I'm actually glad to see compromises taken with the whole cartoon-literalist thing. The MP-10 era design philosophy of staying true to the character whilst updating the aesthetics was definitely preferable to the madness that gave us Bumblebee 2.0, and in some ways this is a return to form. The problem is that they chose to do it with a character whose show model is borderline impossible to make into a transforming figure even with compromises.
I think you're completely missing the point that the "compromises" done here that deviate from the cartoon model were done not to improve the figure but to evidently conform to Ohshima's waifu fetishes.
The only compromises that I can see that can be attributed to that would be the stomach section being curvier and softer looking than the cartoon model, and even then it could be argued that it was a decision based less on "I love me some robot tummies" (not that there's anything wrong with that) and more on "this looks better than a straight-up box body". Ironically, the chest actually looks
less waifu-y than the cartoon model, sitting as low as it does resulting in her looking a bit, uh, saggy. As far as the other points go, the "arched back" is barely arched at all- it's not ramrod straight but it certainly looks natural, whilst the backpack is still too big to be considered "accurate" (because the model basically had some shoulder pods and nothing else, which doesn't work for a transforming figure). The face seems accurate to me, but then the cartoon was pretty inconsistent with facial proportions (and, uh, everything else) so meh.
Sure, it has had liberties taken with the design (as MPs should IMO) but it's hardly overbearingly different from the source material. I don't entirely like how it looks but that's just because she looks like she won't be a very good toy rather than because she's too womanly or whatever.
...Also, are we seriously at the point where we're seeing people asking for a
more egregious kibble backpack now?