They don't even bother to make good designs anymore.

Son at this point just go naked😭✌️

alpha12 said:

They don't even bother to make good designs anymore.

Apparently Dishwasher1910 disagrees with this design as well, make what you will of that.

Searchwanted said:

Apparently Dishwasher1910 disagrees with this design as well, make what you will of that.

Genuinely curious, where did you see that?

Tadley said:

Genuinely curious, where did you see that?

Never mind, I found it myself and I quite agree

Tadley said:

Never mind, I found it myself and I quite agree

For those who want to see, it's this comment on reddit.
And I agree too. It perfectly summarizes what happened to AL in the past 2-3 years.

I know that AL is a waifu game, and honestly I appreciate the fact that for some time now the skins have been getting bolder and very sexy, but unfortunately more and more often the design of new shipgirls and skins feels bland, rushed, and poorly thought out. What kind of design is it, especially for a shipgirl’s base skin, to simply put her in underwear instead of finding a way to draw her well while still making her sexy? This is one of the reasons I stopped playing about a couple of year ago, and every time I download it again I don’t last more than a week. Which is a shame, because I really like AL, and I even own several figures, and out of all the gacha games I’ve played, the only ones I have figures from are AL and Nikke, just to give you an idea of how much I like it.

is it me or you can see the slit? isn't the first time the official arts weren't properly covered (last i remember was the post 5262157 where you can clearly see belfast nipples)

Nowarin97 said:

I know that AL is a waifu game, and honestly I appreciate the fact that for some time now the skins have been getting bolder and very sexy, but unfortunately more and more often the design of new shipgirls and skins feels bland, rushed, and poorly thought out. What kind of design is it, especially for a shipgirl’s base skin, to simply put her in underwear instead of finding a way to draw her well while still making her sexy? This is one of the reasons I stopped playing about a couple of year ago, and every time I download it again I don’t last more than a week. Which is a shame, because I really like AL, and I even own several figures, and out of all the gacha games I’ve played, the only ones I have figures from are AL and Nikke, just to give you an idea of how much I like it.

I feel this needs to be hammered into everyone's heads more, to understand what the game is losing for its lewdness. Isn't the point of skins to carry the lewdness?

But it's not the english speakers who need to hear this message.

The thing that drew me to azur lane were the designs. They were fresh and drew inspiration from their country of origin. The azur lane of today doesn't seem to care about that anymore and instead chose, in my opinion, bare effort horny designs. It's unfortunate to see since azur lane really did have some peak character designs.

Well, Sardegna finally got a mogador-tier awful design, I hoped it would never happen. She is suppoused to be some sort of judge and shes dressed like this? Ridiculous

Is it weird that when I saw this and didn't notice the rarity,I thought they made a dancer skin for FdG? 😂

Searchwanted said:

Apparently Dishwasher1910 disagrees with this design as well, make what you will of that.

I agree the italians had a Parade uniform loom for most of their ships except their subs, so having this one just in her underwear is a bit of design discectomy.

What a missed oppurtunity on Manjuu's side - this one's shall be a ton of profit should this be a skin, not a base design.

So I figured out the problem:

They took the CN version and deleted the layer with the dress all at once.

Like how Cheshire's skin with the horse in it can have the layer with the dress removed to reveal everything's been drawn underneath.

So they forgot to replace her dress, so she had to show up mostly naked.

Guardian54 said:

So I figured out the problem:

They took the CN version and deleted the layer with the dress all at once.

Like how Cheshire's skin with the horse in it can have the layer with the dress removed to reveal everything's been drawn underneath.

So they forgot to replace her dress, so she had to show up mostly naked.

I bet it's intentional. It sounds to me like the CN version was the artist's original design, and Manjuu simply added fanservice by removing the dress.

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Western AL community outraged over a lewd design yet again I see

Hobillo said:

Western AL community outraged over a lewd design yet again I see

It's more of not getting the mix right

IMO best way is to put the lion's share of lewdness behind the gemwall

The default designs are the front-facing side of AL, there is fun in pretending to be slightly less lewd on the surface level than you really are

remember when AL factions had their own distinct design, recognazible for every single faction. those years are already gone

Searchwanted said:

It's more of not getting the mix right

IMO best way is to put the lion's share of lewdness behind the gemwall

The default designs are the front-facing side of AL, there is fun in pretending to be slightly less lewd on the surface level than you really are

100% agreed to that.

This is the price we paid for Azur Promilia...

So I came up with a better reason for this outfit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/1qffowf/plausible_reasoning_for_francesco_caracciolos/

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Guardian54 said in comment #2573212:

Do you have a link to that version? Because I've looked at the official Weibo and Bilibili and they feature the same design, except with external censors over the panties and breasts.

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Crest45 said in comment #2574966:

Is nobody going to mention how this is literally a weak carbon copy of Hasumi from Blue Archive???

Are we really doing this again?

blindVigil said in comment #2574969:

Are we really doing this again?

Apologies. Wasn't thinking straight and my pointless comment was just beating a dead horse at that point.