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This cannot be Miku [A THREAD]:
Western VOCALOID fans often point to the various roles, outfits, and creatures that Miku has been portrayed in or as to justify their racial redraws. This is silly. Despite her various portrayals, traditional Miku art always has “Miku-ness.” (1/5)
![This cannot be Miku [A THREAD]:Western VOCALOID fans often point to the various roles, outfits, and creatures that Miku has been portrayed in or as to justify their racial redraws. This is silly. Despite her various portrayals, traditional Miku art always has “Miku-ness.” (1/5)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtCzcjMU0AIl0wb.jpg "This cannot be Miku [A THREAD]:Western VOCALOID fans often point to the various roles, outfits, and creatures that Miku has been portrayed in or as to justify their racial redraws. This is silly. Despite her various portrayals, traditional Miku art always has “Miku-ness.” (1/5)")
![This cannot be Miku [A THREAD]:Western VOCALOID fans often point to the various roles, outfits, and creatures that Miku has been portrayed in or as to justify their racial redraws. This is silly. Despite her various portrayals, traditional Miku art always has “Miku-ness.” (1/5)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtCzckXUwAAN4ch.jpg "This cannot be Miku [A THREAD]:Western VOCALOID fans often point to the various roles, outfits, and creatures that Miku has been portrayed in or as to justify their racial redraws. This is silly. Despite her various portrayals, traditional Miku art always has “Miku-ness.” (1/5)")
![This cannot be Miku [A THREAD]:Western VOCALOID fans often point to the various roles, outfits, and creatures that Miku has been portrayed in or as to justify their racial redraws. This is silly. Despite her various portrayals, traditional Miku art always has “Miku-ness.” (1/5)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtCzckGU4AAYn1B.jpg "This cannot be Miku [A THREAD]:Western VOCALOID fans often point to the various roles, outfits, and creatures that Miku has been portrayed in or as to justify their racial redraws. This is silly. Despite her various portrayals, traditional Miku art always has “Miku-ness.” (1/5)")
![This cannot be Miku [A THREAD]:Western VOCALOID fans often point to the various roles, outfits, and creatures that Miku has been portrayed in or as to justify their racial redraws. This is silly. Despite her various portrayals, traditional Miku art always has “Miku-ness.” (1/5)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtCzckyU4AAZLqL.jpg "This cannot be Miku [A THREAD]:Western VOCALOID fans often point to the various roles, outfits, and creatures that Miku has been portrayed in or as to justify their racial redraws. This is silly. Despite her various portrayals, traditional Miku art always has “Miku-ness.” (1/5)")
Western VOCALOID fans often point to the various roles, outfits, and creatures that Miku has been portrayed in or as to justify their racial redraws. This is silly. Despite her various portrayals, traditional Miku art always has “Miku-ness.” (1/5)
Miku-ness is defined by the following criteria:
1. Color; Miku’s color palette USUALLY varies from light blue to teal
2. Build; Miku is a slender teenager with Eurasian facial features
3. Skin; Miku is TYPICALLY light skinned (pale to yellow) and has a 01 on her arm (2/5)
1. Color; Miku’s color palette USUALLY varies from light blue to teal
2. Build; Miku is a slender teenager with Eurasian facial features
3. Skin; Miku is TYPICALLY light skinned (pale to yellow) and has a 01 on her arm (2/5)
4. Outfits; Miku’s outfits exist as a set including those inside and outside the Project DIVA series
5. Hair; Miku’s hairstyles exist as a set in the same way as outfits, but tend towards no-frizz and normal-color
One quality alone does not a Miku make! Nor two even! (3/5)
5. Hair; Miku’s hairstyles exist as a set in the same way as outfits, but tend towards no-frizz and normal-color
One quality alone does not a Miku make! Nor two even! (3/5)
The key issue that plagues most BlkMiku art is ARTSTYLE.
Traditional Japanese (and greater East Asian) portrayals account for the aforementioned criteria while also using an unambiguous “anime artstyle.” Tumblr artstyles, by contrast, generate ambiguity by trying too… (4/5)
Traditional Japanese (and greater East Asian) portrayals account for the aforementioned criteria while also using an unambiguous “anime artstyle.” Tumblr artstyles, by contrast, generate ambiguity by trying too… (4/5)
…hard to resemble real life by aiming for the “standard average” portrayal. Consider: dark blue frizzy hair, obese build, dark skin, African facial features, Miku’s clothes? A person would be safer assuming the artist was portraying a mediocre cosplayer than Miku herself! (5/5)
