Now, I know there has been some debate about the mess that is fae lancelot/melusine however I don't think we should put all the blame on the artist. Yeah they don't do the best in terms of work, sometimes it can be questionable and by no means I'm trying to justify them or make it seem they are a saint however let's get this straight
Takeuchi is the responsible of most if not all the designs on fgo, the ones that get aproved and the ones who don't, sometimes he doesn't even design them but he has the last word when it comes to accepting the designs and yeah he does do good designs sometimes but at the end of the day all those awful designs decisions are mostly takeuchi's fault
What am I trying to come across with this? Well, maybe I'm not the only one but I genuinely don't hate melusine's design! Yes it has it's flaws and all but I really like her armor and visor of her first ascension as well as the prince like dress she wears on her second ascension the problem that I see is on her last ascension were everything is thrown off the board with that awful design, and as I said before I don't want to make the artist a saint but seeing his work with the other two designs I don't really get why they had to fucked up so badly at last moment and I remembered who is behind those decisions
And this is not the first time he fucks up good designs, he changed kiara's summer expressions because it wasn't "feminine" enough for him going against her WHOLE CHARACTER and I will NEVER but NEVER forgive him for, and I can't belive I'm going to defend this artist in this occasion, making raita yes RAITA change raikou's design to the one we have now, yes raita had decided to do male raikou but discarded it and made ballon boobs raikou just because it wasn't sexy enough, and don't make me start with wu zetian and nitocris who weren't showing "enough skin" on the early concepts
Some of this characters are saved because of the lore or personalities they have because nasu KNOWS how to write characters that's why the 3 fae and Morgan even thought some of their designs can be a bit.... meh (I'm specifically pointing at Morgan's saber face and yeah it's her sister but it still annoys me, plus barghest's last ascension) but the lore of them makes them amazing characters and it makes me sad that some other great characters with amazing lore and personality get lost because of awful designs decisions
Finally going back to melusine, I've seen her artists work on Twitter about her and it's actually very wholesome, they really care for her and make very funny and cute art and it made me wonder about how an artist that makes this kind of stuff with love for the character ended up doing a terrible job at the end
I just wanted to take this off my chest, feel free to disagree or agree with it just let's not make a discussion I genuinely don't want to fight with anyone
Edit: also to clarify, I'm not against a character exposing a lot of skin or being sexually appealing, in fact some of my favs show lot of skin (bayonetta, 2b, etc) however what I'm trying to say here is that there's a line between visually appealing characters and some other that are just created with the intention of being a jerk off tool. When creating this type of designs the key is to make it as appealing and cohesive as possible so it won't fall on the uncanny and very try hard "sexy"