As crossover obsessed as I am, some crossovers just aren't meant to work... Sailor Moon has ruined me permanently for magical girls. I am heavily biased for it. That's why sometimes when an anime is really dear to me but I just can't incorporate a crossover for it, I rely on using another anime character's face from it or I just happen to like their character design when my brain is unable to think of a design! But of course, I sometimes tweak the character design as mentioned in the About Me. If they share a lot of characteristics with the character they got their face from then, I guess I'll admit they're an expy.
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch is a magical girl anime that's dear to my heart due to growing up with it but the Mermaid Princesses would not last in a real fight.
Ironically, while I was watching Smile Precure! ( my motivation to watch it was the fact that the blond magical girl's surnames is Kise which is the same surname as a blond in Kuroko's Basketball. ) I was just really fond of Reika Aomi's and Nao Midorikawa's character designs for their civilian forms for Chantelle Aomi aka Sailor Sao and Mika Midorima aka Sailor Orthosie. And this opinion may get me hated by some Precure fans but when I saw the Princess Candle, the show seemed like a rip off of Sailor Moon in some areas ( but to be fair, most magical girl shows are inspired by the legendary Sailor Moon ) and seemed juvenile...
Ironically, I used the character designs of the green and blue magical girls of both shows and I solemnly swear I will not do it for any other future fan senshi here again. Kimi Kaiou aka Sailor Halimede's revamped character design intentionally resembles Rina Toin from Mermaid Melody while Aimi Umino aka Sailor Laomedeia ended up becoming Hanon Hosho's expy. What can I say, Hanon is such an enjoyable character haha.
Since Allette Shiratori aka Sailor Leda is inspired by Victorique de Blois from Gosick, she's by default, a Shana expy and I guess she's Victorique's expy...
Tomiko Mikan aka Sailor Orthosie's character design is inspired by Yui Yuigahama from Oregairu. ( I haven't watched that anime and I don't plan to. )
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