According to the commentary, the artist drew this after seeing something similar done with the female characters of Dungeon Meshi, with all of the girls here (all of the commanders + Übermensch) having their hairstyle the same as Miho.
The one who looks the most off to me, surprisingly, is Maho. The other's hairstyles are so different from their norm (minus Katyusha, but she pretty much looks the same), that it just falls under the mental category of alternate hairstyle, but Maho's hairstyle was already pretty similar to Miho's, that the tiny change (the inward curled sidelocks in front of the mid-length sidelocks) completely throws me off.
personally Marie looks the most off to me here. I almost didn't recognize her without her curls. You could tell me that that's a completely different character from the manga about Count High and I'd believe you, since I'm so unfamiliar with that series
personally Marie looks the most off to me here. I almost didn't recognize her without her curls. You could tell me that that's a completely different character from the manga about Count High and I'd believe you, since I'm so unfamiliar with that series
It's probably the lack of drill hair and the fact that she's one of the few characters who doesn't normally have bangs. Kay retained her hair intakes and messy-ish hair, so Marie could have had longer parted bangs (exposing her forehead) with sidelocks that had slight drills to them.
Context: The Korean community gave Alice the nickname "Pink Sausage" because in Korea there's a brand of fish cake which is known by the same nickname and looks very similar to Alice's outfit.
To add to the artist's explanation, apparently "Sorry Curry" was created to commemorate that the surname "Yamaguchi" was ranked first in a list of surnames that are the same as prefectural capitals, and that it's "Sorry Curry" as a way to say "I'm sorry only Yamaguchi-san and people from the Yamaguchi prefecture can buy this" (Source).
I have no words, this must be one of the most confusing publicity stunts I've ever heard of.
I'm creating an account specifically to clarify this, but the image in question was actually generated by my friends using NovelAI back in December last year. I still have the original files, including the AI tags, metadata, and even the chat logs from that time. It looks like this Twitter user has taken the image and is now claiming it as their own. The original creator, or rather the AI image generator, should be credited as "Kaze Koi."
