…Wait, didn't she see the customers "real" appearance when she first visited?

…Wait, didn't she see the customers "real" appearance when she first visited?

Why? For all we know she didn't even place the order "avatar to avatar" but by email.

I always love when one of Nakatani's original oneshots is released. Her artstyle is very cute and unique. If only we could have more...

Lyendith posted:

…Wait, didn't she see the customers "real" appearance when she first visited?

Unless her previous avatar was also custom. Or as random said, not making contact in person.

I love how in the end MC decides to make the avatar's hair more like her friend's hair irl, to make her even cuter. Means MC was more aware of her friend's change in hairstyle than she's willing to admit.

Things to consider: MC could have made the character look any way, to make it appear cute, yet the avatar doesn't really look all that different to the irl friend. MC could have had the avatar be male, or masculine. A neko. Hyper anime-esque, or chibi. Except that she didn't.

Could be intentional on the part of MC, because of laws perhaps forbiding the creation of dopplegangers of real people (to prevent things like identity theft); or because MC doesn't want the possibility that the friend could run into an avatar identical to her exact appearance.

Could be subconscious, in that perhaps the avatar is different in appearance (to us, and her friend) because that is how MC perceives her friend in her mind's eye. How she romanticises her friends appearance.

It's subtle, but this story is definitely a happy one. Their relationship is slow-burning.

"You avatar nerd." Come 2020 and there will be no end of them...

Could be intentional on the part of MC, because of laws perhaps forbiding the creation of dopplegangers of real people (to prevent things like identity theft);

It seems terribly unlikely for someone's virtual appearance to have any legal meaning whatsoever in a society with this kind of communications technology; unless some truly bizarre hardware/firmware side restrictions are mandatory those aren't going to have any more significance than the forums avatars of today, nor any harder to swap around on a whim. Expect anything legally binding to be based on multiple orders of magnitude more secure identification solutions just like today.

Could be intentional on the part of MC, because of laws perhaps forbiding the creation of dopplegangers of real people (to prevent things like identity theft);

It seems terribly unlikely for someone's virtual appearance to have any legal meaning whatsoever in a society with this kind of communications technology; unless some truly bizarre hardware/firmware side restrictions are mandatory those aren't going to have any more significance than the forums avatars of today, nor any harder to swap around on a whim. Expect anything legally binding to be based on multiple orders of magnitude more secure identification solutions just like today.

"Involuntary synthetic pornographic imagery."

This is no longer sci-fi it is already become reality. Maybe we should change to tag to VR or something similar.

There must be more Nakatani-sensei one-shots...