What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?

Dohna Dohna is a good-looking eroge JRPG, the UI is amazing most of the character designs are fantastic, and the OST is a bop. It makes a strong case for being AliceSoft's best looking game, but with so many character's it's bound to have a few duds.

Dohna Dohna doubles as a brothel sim where you abduct women and force them to fuck men to make money. Most of the women you capture are generic, but there are a few unique ones with stories and sex-scenes that can be unlocked by fulfilling certain conditions.

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Kanono, fails twice in her design. She's supposed to be aiming to be a member of a terrorist organization and this is her superhero outfit. Besides the standard impracticality that comes with the territory it also just fails to covey that idea. She looks more like a sci-fi character out of Space Channel 5 than someone ready to beat up bad guys.
The other issue with the design is that she looks like she's under 10 but has medium breasts, something more apparent in the porn scenes I won't share here. This means she fails her lolicon audience AND grosses out people who find that uncomfortable. A character for no one.


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Her name is Porno, very apt. I don't like to criticize designs for being sexual, especially not in media where that is one of the main points but her design is way too over the top to be appealing. It's a worse version of Jack the Ripper from FGO and she doesn't even have a good personality to make up for it. Oher characters in this game have much more restrained outfits that still manage to be overtly sexual without going over the top like her.
It's a shame though, because her street clothes are actually kind of cute, not that it can salvage the fact that her only personality trait for 90% of the game is nympho.
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Edit: Why is it socially acceptable to admit to playing eroge like Fate/Stay Night or most Nitroplus games but not this? They're bad designs both in the context of the story and to the player.
Oh well, here I'll post something that isn't so suggestive.


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Countess Cat is a Van Buren creation who was meant to be a female character to rival Betty Boop. Most Van Buren characters are ugly copycats, but she had one of the shortest runs of them all, with audience repeatedly calling her ugly and her shorts boring.
 
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The demon design of SMT IV was really a coin flip, on one hand you had some badass designs like Minotaur, Chemtrail, Koga Saburo and Astaroth and on the other hand you had the Archangels.
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Pretty sure those are actually rather close to how angels have been described in religious texts. There's a reason the first words they say to humans in the accounts are 'do not be afraid', since majority of them are just messes of wings and eyes.
 
The demon design of SMT IV was really a coin flip, on one hand you had some badass designs like Minotaur, Chemtrail, Koga Saburo and Astaroth and on the other hand you had the Archangels.
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I actually love those, though Merkabah comes dangerously close to looking like a neck pillow.
 
Pretty sure those are actually rather close to how angels have been described in religious texts. There's a reason the first words they say to humans in the accounts are 'do not be afraid', since majority of them are just messes of wings and eyes.
I'm aware that they were going for the biblically accurate angle, except there were some that managed to pull off that biblical horror look while still looking like a law-aligned demon.
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Almost like that's part of what makes them a bad design.

I don't know what to tell you. It is like going to a movie thread and posting as examples of poor script writing, acting and cinematography clips from porn movies. Yeah, in that medium's context, that is not the part that matters so it is bound to be an afterthought.
 
I don't know what to tell you. It is like going to a movie thread and posting as examples of poor script writing, acting and cinematography clips from porn movies. Yeah, in that medium's context, that is not the part that matters so it is bound to be an afterthought.
I actually didn't mean to cause so many ripples, but I'll clarify myself and then let it be. The game has good character designs, most of the characters are designed to be attractive to a straight man but Porno's is the only one I think goes over the top and winds up being off-putting. Kirakira and Medico are much better examples of a sexualized costume that show restraint.
I think the ones I posted before are bad even within the context of the game.
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If you can post FGO or other characters from fanservice-filled gacha I don't see why this game should be free of scrutiny. It's a real JRPG with gameplay, AliceSoft is a well-known publisher and it is a professional product for sale.

My only regret is not warning for loli content like @Newman's Lovechild said. For a multitude of reasons they are the worst designs and while the game isn't loli-themed I should have in advance warned those were the characters I was posting. I do apologize for that.
 
I actually didn't mean to cause so many ripples, but I'll clarify myself and then let it be. The game has good character designs, most of the characters are designed to be attractive to a straight man but Porno's is the only one I think goes over the top and winds up being off-putting. Kirakira and Medico are much better examples of a sexualized costume that show restraint.
I think the ones I posted before are bad even within the context of the game.
If you can post FGO or other characters from fanservice-filled gacha I don't see why this game should be free of scrutiny. It's a real JRPG with gameplay, AliceSoft is a well-known publisher and it is a professional product for sale.

My only regret is not warning for loli content like @Newman's Lovechild said. For a multitude of reasons they are the worst designs and while the game isn't loli-themed I should have in advance warned those were the characters I was posting. I do apologize for that.
Tbf I think you just got rated TMI because you power-leveled about actually playing it. I'm not going to go back and check but most people posting characters from H-games just posted the characters.

Then you whined about stickers and opened yourself up to bullying :story:
 
Besides all the other unecessary crap , why is this boy wearing fucking high heels?

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Dohna Dohna doubles as a brothel sim where you abduct underage girls and force them to fuck men to make money. Most of the underage girls you capture are generic, but there are a few unique underage sex slaves with stories and rape-scenes that can be unlocked by fulfilling certain rape conditions.
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Dohna Dohna is a good-looking eroge JRPG, the UI is amazing most of the character designs are fantastic, and the OST is a bop. It makes a strong case for being AliceSoft's best looking game, but with so many character's it's bound to have a few duds.

Dohna Dohna doubles as a brothel sim where you abduct women and force them to fuck men to make money. Most of the women you capture are generic, but there are a few unique ones with stories and sex-scenes that can be unlocked by fulfilling certain conditions.

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Kanono, fails twice in her design. She's supposed to be aiming to be a member of a terrorist organization and this is her superhero outfit. Besides the standard impracticality that comes with the territory it also just fails to covey that idea. She looks more like a sci-fi character out of Space Channel 5 than someone ready to beat up bad guys.
The other issue with the design is that she looks like she's under 10 but has medium breasts, something more apparent in the porn scenes I won't share here. This means she fails her lolicon audience AND grosses out people who find that uncomfortable. A character for no one.


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Her name is Porno, very apt. I don't like to criticize designs for being sexual, especially not in media where that is one of the main points but her design is way too over the top to be appealing. It's a worse version of Jack the Ripper from FGO and she doesn't even have a good personality to make up for it. Oher characters in this game have much more restrained outfits that still manage to be overtly sexual without going over the top like her.
It's a shame though, because her street clothes are actually kind of cute, not that it can salvage the fact that her only personality trait for 90% of the game is nympho.
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Edit: Why is it socially acceptable to admit to playing eroge like Fate/Stay Night or most Nitroplus games but not this? They're bad designs both in the context of the story and to the player.
Oh well, here I'll post something that isn't so suggestive.


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Countess Cat is a Van Buren creation who was meant to be a female character to rival Betty Boop. Most Van Buren characters are ugly copycats, but she had one of the shortest runs of them all, with audience repeatedly calling her ugly and her shorts boring.
OH BOY I REGRET I HAVE AN IMMENSE AND PAINFUL REGRET AFTER OPENING THAT SPOILER!!!!!
i know anime industries exploit basement dweller but that just hit a new LOW!!!!
 
The demon design of SMT IV was really a coin flip, on one hand you had some badass designs like Minotaur, Chemtrail, Koga Saburo and Astaroth and on the other hand you had the Archangels.
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Man, these are cool as fuck.
But my favorite version of the "Angels" are the kidou tenshi from Shaman King

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Why? Was getting to fuck the protagonists not raunchy enough for some players? They just had to throw human trafficking into the mix, didn't they?
I kinda appreciate the full on edginess of going full human trafficking to sponsor your anti corpo terrorist group.

Anyways, I'd put one I'm amazed I haven't yet. Xenosaga 1 had extremely animesque character design, looking back it was cringy but it worked well considering the game was extremely anime. Then the second game came and it tried to go very realistic with character designs, which ended up going full uncanny valley. Thankfully the third game found a comfortable middle ground between the two designs, so it's not massive anime eyes but not very realistic human eyes either.

Here are all the Kosmos designs to compare designs:
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And nightmare fuel art for the second game
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Edit: Why is it socially acceptable to admit to playing eroge like Fate/Stay Night or most Nitroplus games but not this? They're bad designs both in the context of the story and to the player.

Admitting to playing porn games isn't socially acceptable, and admitting to playing pedophilic porn games is extra super socially unacceptable for obvious reasons.

Count me as one of the people who likes those psycho angel designs.
 
I kinda appreciate the full on edginess of going full human trafficking to sponsor your anti corpo terrorist group.

Anyways, I'd put one I'm amazed I haven't yet. Xenosaga 1 had extremely animesque character design, looking back it was cringy but it worked well considering the game was extremely anime. Then the second game came and it tried to go very realistic with character designs, which ended up going full uncanny valley. Thankfully the third game found a comfortable middle ground between the two designs, so it's not massive anime eyes but not very realistic human eyes either.

Here are all the Kosmos designs to compare designs:
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And nightmare fuel art for the second game
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I wouldn't consider Xenosaga II design changes to be that bad except for KOS-MOS because why the fuck does she have blue shit all over herself now!?
 
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