Miraculous Ladybug Design RANT (Spoilers from future episodes Trailers and Clips)
I'm mad
We've been waiting since 2016 for this shit and this is what we get?
I'mma be honest, as an artist, this season has infuriated me beyond belief. All the designs in this show were complete fire until season 4, why are they so ungodly now?
Polymouse and Purple Tigress' outfits are great but other than that the costumes are either passable or fugly.
Pigella was fine, ladybug suit upgrade was fine, Vesperia –as much as I hate the character for existing and how she looks more like a villain than a hero– was fine.
But this?
Sabrina, Ivan and Nate look SO BAD.
The only new design that's been revealed in the Penalteam clips that's even semi-good is Marc and even then, it just doesn't fit his style. It could be a similar situation to Juleka where he's trying to be more confident but even still, Juleka's Tiger suit fit her aesthetic.
And the fact that he got the chicken and not the goat kinda makes me mad.
Speaking of, wtf is going on with Nathaniel's horns? Why is his (and Ivan's) hair not changed in the slightest? Why does he look like that? The goat doesn't fit Nathaniel just as much as the chicken doesn't fit Marc, if not more so. I do get that they're based off of the Chinese Zodiac and they do fit they're personalities (I was born year of the ram, I know) but these styles just don't.
I don't think the designers even know these characters' personalities.
Why did the creators choose this? And the goat's weapon is a giant paintbrush? While the chicken's is a pen? Not a giant pen, just a regular one. Not only is it too on the nose for the characters but what kind of choice was that?! What is the pen gonna do?!! How is that gonna help in battle?
It's like the equivalent of giving Rena Rouge a camera for a weapon because it's journalist Alya.
And why is Ivan gray? The bull is blue! MAKE HIM BLUE! Why does Nathaniel's hero suit have a green tint. That's NOT needed!!!
Idk what weapon Ivan is getting but the rooster should've had boomerangs, the goat should've had a paintball gun and the bull needs a giant Harley-Quinn-like hammer.
And don't even get me started on Sabrina. They took her civilians clothes, made them brown, black & white, and gave her an ugly ass hat with floppy ears glued on. Her mask makes her look dead inside, oh my god.
I'm genuinely kinda disgusted with how low the bar has been set with these hero designs.
(EXHALE)
At the very least, I can only hope to God that Marc and Nate switch miraculous' at some point. I've only seen, like, one post/blog about the theory that they'll switch but even so, it doesn't excuse this atrocity. Even if these weren't meant to be their permanent looks, make them look –at the least– decent.
Other than that, nothing could ever vindicate the creators/designers for these looks.