What I actually felt about Ayeka

[PurpleKingCrazy]

Honestly thanks to the community they changed Ayano in such a way that it baffles me to think such a character would exist. I am honestly disappointed of the outcome and I thought I would enjoy the "fake redhead" trope but it feels more like a jealous brunette than anything else. I wasn't very offended by the original version of the character and think she shouldn't be changed/removed and now that we have Ayeka replacing Ayano It doesn't feel the same at all.

So yea rant over Ayeka is bad but I feel She's still got the great body type and maybe her hair tie is pretty good but otherwise to this character felt like a "one and done" thing even with all the interactions. And she was the only light-skinned character having that iconic black hair she really doesn't feel the same thing.

I'm sad.

[NewMoonShadow]

Now that you mention it I've never noticed that black hair is such a rarity in the game, I think only Ayano, Vellatrix, and maybe Lotus had it. There are more blue-haired characters than black.

[PurpleKingCrazy]

I forgot Velatrix had black hair, but then again the hat kinda covers it and never mentioned she had eyes.

[AMurderOfCrows]

came in to post the same thing. i kinda hate Ayeka. wish i never updated being that i was going to quit the game anyway

[stevenhorbury622]

also to me I feel the name was super rushed, really dumb too, I liked Ayano and to me she will stay Ayano not some forgettable bland name also the colour scheme also lazily put together

[stevenhorbury622]

Also the clown giver has no life, but hey thanks for the points

[LordVyreth]

Characters with black hair that I could find include Vellatrix, Lotus, The Dark One (duh, though she also has Mio's highlights,) Roxxy (except for the parts she presumably dyes,) and Sofia if/when she gets promoted to datable.

If you expand it to include dark brown that might be considered black hair with shading differences, the list expands to include Karma, Peanut (minus the light brown highlights,) Rosa, Tessa, arguably Yuki, and Caitlin (again presuming a potential promotion.) Since this is an anime game and much of the cast aren't human anyway, it's no surprise that the hair color range a lot more than natural hair colors, not to mention that several characters have already established that they dye some or all of their hair.

[PurpleKingCrazy]

Originally posted by LordVyreth:

Characters with black hair that I could find include Vellatrix, Lotus, The Dark One (duh, though she also has Mio's highlights,) Roxxy (except for the parts she presumably dyes,) and Sofia if/when she gets promoted to datable.

If you expand it to include dark brown that might be considered black hair with shading differences, the list expands to include Karma, Peanut (minus the light brown highlights,) Rosa, Tessa, arguably Yuki, and Caitlin (again presuming a potential promotion.) Since this is an anime game and much of the cast aren't human anyway, it's no surprise that the hair color range a lot more than natural hair colors, not to mention that several characters have already established that they dye some or all of their hair.

Lotus has darker skin, and Sofia has DARK BLUE hair. Roxxy doesn't really count for black hair because of the dye for purple/black hair. so the only one is purple.

For the one who put a clown/jester on my post as well as others criticizing Ayeka for the character she is, let me say I'm actually DISAPPOINTED and not really mad at the character turnout. I feel like Sad Panda Studio did her really terrible especially if we're gonna have a different story but ended like the same thing and bumrushed and spoonfed the new character at the expense of the Yandere controversy instead of fulling embracing her character and changing a few dialogues to not even include Yandere and keeping Ayano the way she is. The way I viewed her character was that maybe it will work when I get used to her design but its jus seems offhanded and deadbeat the more I look into that character. So yea, you can jester away if you want, but that doesn't change my opinion nor convince me to like the character in question that has changed.

The community unfortunately didn't do Ayano justice, and this was never even settled right for the taking.

[NewMoonShadow]

Originally posted by LordVyreth:

Characters with black hair that I could find include Vellatrix, Lotus, The Dark One (duh, though she also has Mio's highlights,) Roxxy (except for the parts she presumably dyes,) and Sofia if/when she gets promoted to datable.

If you expand it to include dark brown that might be considered black hair with shading differences, the list expands to include Karma, Peanut (minus the light brown highlights,) Rosa, Tessa, arguably Yuki, and Caitlin (again presuming a potential promotion.) Since this is an anime game and much of the cast aren't human anyway, it's no surprise that the hair color range a lot more than natural hair colors, not to mention that several characters have already established that they dye some or all of their hair.

Sofia is arguable. Honestly it looks like a shade of blue to me, but I could see an argument for it being black. It could just be the difference between the main roster art style and the phone fling art style.

[Long Bottom Leaf]

Yes please, more unhinged rants about Ayano/Ayeka.

Stage 1: Omg the guy 99% of the online community knew was a weirdo turned out to be a weirdo, get that 8 year old reference out of my game because my morals have been DAMAGED.

State 2: OMEGAWWD why did they change her omg her hair is ugly stupid devs for changing the character due to controversy UGH.

Actually unhinged. I am terrified to see stage 3, full blown cancer I assume.

[quothz]

Originally posted by Long Bottom Leaf:

I am terrified to see stage 3, full blown cancer I assume.

Stage 3 is much worse than cancer. Cancer ends. Stage 3 is when the threads get necroed every couple-few months for eternity.

[stevenhorbury622]

I get what he did was awful, when I was young it happened to me, not on the internet mind you but face to face, the creep did get arrested, but changing a characters look and name all because of what one creep did is super childish, laugh at me all you want kids but just so you know you can separate art from the artist, you can still enjoy things without being lumped together with them, also if we want to be more pathetic lets not forget lovecraft is a racist you know the guy who made Cthulhu but hey that's old news right, we only care for new rare stupid crap not out dated crap

[GoldGame]

the change that happened are 100% the communitys fault
The pandas just did what people wanted to as stated on the patreon

The specific words were:

"After reading many player support emails and forum threads on Steam asking for this, we have decided to move forward with a new 'glow up' direction for Ayano"

So this happened cause enaugh of the community wanted it to happen
You may not realize this but the pandas read everything here
every single Forum Thread

[76561199555544955]

Originally posted by Long Bottom Leaf:

Yes please, more unhinged rants about Ayano/Ayeka.

Stage 1: Omg the guy 99% of the online community knew was a weirdo turned out to be a weirdo, get that 8 year old reference out of my game because my morals have been DAMAGED.

State 2: OMEGAWWD why did they change her omg her hair is ugly stupid devs for changing the character due to controversy UGH.

Actually unhinged. I am terrified to see stage 3, full blown cancer I assume.

You make it sound like state 1 and 2 are the same ppl they're not. this is something the playerbase has been divided about, also there wasn't much widespread info about ayano dev 8 years ago, it's not like the devs knew about what he did and still put her in the game