Might wanna try a little harder on the hate, there.
Honoka literally represents everything wrong with and bad about DOA.
Her entire design is simply "Biggest boobs". There was no effort put in beyond that one aspect of cheesecake.
They didn't bother with making a moveset, or hell, even a FACE or IDENTITY for her. Just slapped J cups Honoka from Love Live, recycled Marie's face and hodgepodged a "moveset" from the other characters.
She is the epitome of "Sex Sells", and justified all the criticisms people have ever made about DOA being "that game with the titties". Doubly so with her and Marie becoming the new "face" of DOA.
But please, feel free to try and explain how Mila belongs "on that list, too".
Ok dude, i know I probably won't be able to change your opinion on Honoka, but let me at least show how there is actually a good ammount of effort into her character.
First and most important, moveset. I see people talking a lot on how her moveset is lazy because it is a bunch of other character's moves slapped into one character, and i don't think that is quite right, while for animation purposes is easy, you can just re-use the animations from other characters, there is still the care to make those animations work in the new model, but also, to me it is wonderful that Honoka has so many stances and moves from so many characters, and how well those moves flow into one another, and how she is just balanced right, for me it is quite and awesome.
Now about design, i didn't knew about love live before playing doa, so i didn't know about Honoka, but yeah, she is clearly a homage to the thing. But i beg you to look the cool details about her, like Honoka and Ayane are the only characters that have red eyes, which is nice to establish a connection. The pink hair i kinda see as being related to that as well. Her face is similar to marie's? Yeah, but honestly, face models in this game aren't so different if you take out the hair, but it is still a slightly different model i believe, someone already showed that in a thread here.
And the last reason why i really like Honoka, is that she feels like a joke character, as in someone that is incredibly powerful but isn't aware of that, and she ends up having a goofy place in the game, but also, being able to do something meaningful in future games due to her relation with raidou and ayane.
About her big boobs? Well, can't say much here, you either like it or you don't.
Now, to be pretty clear, i don't dislike any doa character (at least not a TN original character that i can remember), and i really love Milla as well, but i could see someone not liking her for a couple of reasons.
Milla, like Rig, are the original DOA 5 characters, and their designs just scream "Regular people from everyday's life", and while this was cool, it really strikes as something weird compared to the "over the top" DOA cast, and Rig got that solved by his participation in the story mode, where he was revealed to be a major villain, now Milla, she didn't do much, her participation is still bigger than the newcomers from ultimate/last round, but she still came as a regular girl, fought as a regular girl, and left the game as a regular girl, and i would say that her character was not developed well enough, and i hope she gets more development in the future. Again, i love Milla, but you could say that her role as a character was pretty much nothing until now.
Sorry if i sounded rude in any of this, And sorry for being so off topic, but i wanted to reply that.
But with that context, and also the context of what i just said, one really disappointing thing that could happen story wise is the characters to not get their progression and needed development.
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