99% guess this is where NiCO comes from

[Leifang2000]

Mashu from Fate Grand Order
Too many similarities all at the same time including the new character customization mode menu.

 

[Dr PaC]

Like Honoka, lol

 

[Mayor-Of-Mustard]

And Marie Rose is Katja from Seikon No Qwaser (is it bad I watched SNQ as a kid and got all my friends into it)

 

[UpSideDownGRUNT]

Honoka is more Super Sonico than anything else...

 

[NewWestFan]

They're literally tropes lmao if you look hard enough you will find hundreds of similar examples.

 

[Mayor-Of-Mustard]

They're literally tropes lmao if you look hard enough you will find hundreds of similar examples.

True, that's why I like the tvtropes website, it's really interesting to look at

 

[Ninoasker]

Not surprised, tropes are a big thing in Japan.

And it’s not the first or last time this will happen. I mean...

 

[SaihateDYNAMO]

You know modern anime design philosophy is f'd when people are actually accepting and embracing unoriginal character designs.

 

[Raansu]

Ya these are just general tropes. A lot of anime characters look similar. Shimbori even said they focused on anime and wanted a very anime type character for NICO where as Diego was meant to be focused on a western type character.