Star Guardian Nilah has a genuinely excellent costume, but... || Best & Worst Skins
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She straight up has 'Mom trying to see if her cheerleading uniform still fits' vibe
I like that perspective which is why I like it.
I sure remember seeing those in certain types of books
@@Sevengelion oh no
Pretty accurate
On the bright side, it does, but she’s definitely grown up too much to really be wearing it
“Older woman who still has Magical Girl powers from high school” is an aesthetic I think is funny so I’m alright with it.
I'd watch a show about it.
It’s a manga and not a show, but Mahou Shoujo Misoji may be what you’re looking for.
@@derpfluidvariant0916 they are all meant to stay star guardian until death
(just like in madoka magica)
@@kaird3873 star Guardians after turning 18: time to add to Japans swlf deletion statistics 😂
😅
Was funnier in my head
@@Roman_the_black_cat 💀
My immediate thought is of Sailor Pluto, who was clearly intended to be older than the core Sailor Scouts, but was wearing much the same outfit. It actually works for Pluto, though, largely because of demeanor and accessories: she moves like a more mature woman who knows what she's doing compared to the core group, and the accessories on her outfit and ever-present staff gave her overall look much more of a sense of purpose and presence.
Maybe that was a way they could've gone with Nilah; still clearly 'magical girl', but with a more defined role and place in a hierarchy.
Agreed! There are plenty of ways of reworking magical girl aesthetics to seem more mature and elegant instead of young and playful.
The anime boueibu is a tongue in cheek satire of magical girl + fujoshi culture, so it has magical boys instead of magical girls. Their outfits are still frilly, but more along the lines of being “prince-like” than hyperfeminine. They give variation to the lengths of the pants and sleeves, so the more playful and young characters have shorts and short sleeves, while the more serious or mature characters have pants/capris, long/quarter length sleeves, and/or tall boots.
Some of that stems from Naoko Takeuchi's deep understanding of fashion design, I think. The senshi uniform she settled on is a simple design that can be easily tweaked with accessories and hairstyle to look anything from cute to sporty to elegant. There's a reason Sailor Moon is so fondly regarded by fashion nerds!
@@CreoTan "Prince-like", you say? Heh. Reminds me of a couple episodes of 2008's Engine Sentai Go-Onger: in one, the monster of the week couldn't be beaten by normal means, so, Saki/Go-On Yellow, Miu/Go-On Silver, and Kegalesia (one of the enemy generals) formed a girl group to perform and make the monster beatable: G3 Princess. Frilly magical girl style/idol group style outfits and all.
They'd come back a couple months later in the New Year's episode to try to entertain a bored kid who...ultimately didn't like them. Hiroto/Go-On Gold has a solution: he along with Sosuke/Go-On Red, Renn/Go-On Blue, Hantou/Go-On Green, & Gunpei/Go-On Black basically form a boy band: G5 Prince. And the kid enjoys them. Turns out that the kid was a GIRL. (They thought shawty was a boy at first, didn't think to ask her name...)
Soul Fighter Nilah is such a dope skin, if it was on PC, it would be her best for sure
The only thing holding it back are the effects at least imo
@@davernfrazierjr3307 Which to be fair, is kinda a Wild Rift sort of problem
Agreed it's also fit into thematic she's the priest at soul fighter universes she pad her eyes because she judge your soul and her glowing orb thing become the eye
@@davernfrazierjr3307which would be fixed if it got into pc
@@ashrafhakim379 not really my problem is the fact that she's using fire not so much the quality also going off of star guardian PC doesn't actually do to much the make the effects better sometimes makes them look worse (like sg Senna)
Nilah is an ancient Star Guardian, someone who has been at it for centuries, so her looking "slightly" out of place is the point I think. Even Lux, the veteran of current roster, is going at it for a year tops so Nilah being older and more mature is to give her the air of competency she needs.
Does syndra look like a grown women in sg? beacuse she is way way way way older then nilah
It's implied that star guardians stop physically ageing once they make their contract which is how Xyah's team can all pass as high schoolers despite some of them being centuries old
@@EllieInTheRain xayah and her friends are not that old she is probably under 100 years old the only confirmed star guardians that are over 100 years old are syndra,zoe, morgana, fiddlesticks/harp,gwen,seraphine,janna and seraphine and maybe senna
@@pokemonlover4894 it's mentioned in the webcomic that both Senna and Seraphine had been working as star guardians for hundreds of years when they get recruited by Xayah
Yes but the point that Skyen is trying to make is that there's friction between her apparent age and the juvenile look of her outfit
Battle queen nilah would be dope
I can see his pov she looks like a grown women wearing a teens clothes but I love the skin overall and I love the star guardians in general
She is a adult thats the joke it said mutiple times
Retired Star Guardian suits up one more time to save the world
Nilah's idle animation seen from up close looks weirdly terrifying.
Good ol' exaggerated movement to make it look about right on the Rift 😅
In the Pretty Cure series, by Toei, when it comes to older characters who become a Precure (or just Cure) their outfits tend to have longer adornments. Longer skirts, bigger floor-length hair, or are given capes.
Examples of this being Cure Flower from Heartcatch Precure, Cure Moonlight also from Heartcatch, Cure Earth from Healin' Good Precure, and Cure Butterfly from Hirogaru Sky Precure.
If you want an older character to fit the Magical Girl aesthetic make them wear a gown or a robe, it some how helps represent their maturity compared to the skirt/short wearing younger members.
I think that it being a less mature outfit is fine for a magical girl. Comes with the territory after all. I had a veteran DnD magical girl once and she hated her bright girly costume, but it's based on childish magic and possibly dreams.
Thing is that in magical girls series we do have older ones being magic girls but having different outfit. Check out cure moonlight for example from heartcatch precure. She has more elaborate and "bigger" outfit then rest of the younger precures. And it fits her very well
I went and looked her up out of curiosity and AHASGAGSGSHSJ she’s so beautiful and gender to me I love her
Her dance with a normal camera looks so weird, I love how the isometric camera changes how animators do their job lol
"How do you do fellow kids"
That actually sounds like something she'd say, unironically.
honestly i just like how i can actually tell it apart from the others
Oh shit i never realized how pretty nilah is 😳
I agree with the clothing giving vibes of being too young for her, but I can't really point out WHY it feels that way. What specific elements make it look off? It can't just be the entire aesthetic since it still seemingly working on older champs like Syndra?
It's the pose in the splash. Specifically because the angle gives her even more adult proportions visually
for me, its pose and the happyness, she seems more "I'm a teen being a magical girl" for the first time look, instead of, "I have this job that i have done for years that i enjoy" look to her face.
I dunno: I like to think that maybe she is like a magical girl who has been at the job of being a magical girl for so long that she grew up into a woman but is still going strong with the magical girl job with the same spirit and energy she had in her youth... Maybe even being a teacher and mentor to young magical girls who are taking up the mantal.
I honestly like that idea, it's an idea of magical girls that is so rarely seen that I have only seen it done maybe once and I kinda dig it.
My pitch as far as doing a "mature" Star Guardian:
Give her a much more classic like '90s era, magical girl design then have her be like a counselor or teacher at the school. Have her be part of the previous generation showing up for big "all the warriors" 2 part episode with like Leona and Braum and or whoever
On the topic of "branching the star guardians out a little bit" I'd LOVE to see them do like a sister skin line designed around Tokusatsu.
As far as I'm concerned the only difference between a tokusatsu and a magical girl is if the visual effects for the transformation sequence are glitter and sparkles or a gasoline fireball.
I love her splash art❤
Them Hips don't lie
I imagine that the magical girl outfit hasn’t changed since she was younger so it’s like wearing an old costume that fit you better when you were younger kinda thing
(Although that clearly wasn’t their design)
I can’t help but think of the new Winx designs, the one they get when they’re canonically older (onyrix is one of their transformations I believe). They keep that beautiful magical element while dressing up in a more mature and body/age appropriate way.
An other more interesting inspiration could be from Iris Can Herpen’s multiple collections. She always makes these innovative, gravity defying pieces that look like they came from a fairy queen’s closet haha
Idk I feel like coven Nilah is a better choice as her best skin, story wise it’s intriguing and visually it’s interesting and the FX tie it well together. This isn’t a bad skin but it does give off cosplaying mom vibes
I like her! She wouldn’t look out of place among the outer sailor scouts whom in spite of ostensibly being the same age as Usagi & Co look significantly older
Aren’t the outer sailor scouts older. Pluto is a professor and Neptune and Saturn are college students.
She always reminded me of sailor Pluto, but just older like you said
I always thought her splash art was a little weird but the model actually looks so good
Not me trying my best not to *mlem* a part of that splash art.
I don’t play League of Legends and never have (I might start at some point if I ever find the time) but ever since I found this channel I now have so many opinions on the skins and characters lol.
You know what she needs? A shawl or wrap to cover up her shoulders - you know, like the ones women use when wearing a strapless dress (not the religious type).
Often shown on more mature or authorities figures in media, it would give Nilah a similar sense, or sense of age - making her seem older/more experienced. Still a star guardian, obviously, but clearly a more reliable veteran.
I don't know about LoL, but when you mention that she was a veteran, I can see this as her wanting to be a magical girl but didn't get the chance to (either wanting to dress like a magical girl or be a literal magical girl), so now that she's older, she got that chance and is happier.
Tbh I like the idea of a magical girl growing up but still having to wear the same uniform. If she's out of school in the Star Guardian universe lore her looking older could work.
Nice thing is, Nilah looks the same age as she normally is. Meanwhile Riot can't make up their minds on if they want Janna to look like an old spirit or a youthful bo-peep
There is a romantic comedy manga called "My wife could be a magical girl" that follows the life of a guy that was a fan of her wife while she was a magical girl and, after marrying her, she had to get her powers back because there's a shortage of new blood on the business of protecting people. And they do the "I have to don the clothes again, even though I'm too old for them"
Damn how many bones has she broken with that dance?
it's worth noting that the models aren't really meant to be viewed at this angle, they're designed around the game being an isometric POV, which often results in some really weird movements in the emotes to account for it when viewed from this angle.
Nothing Ashlesh can't fix
I don't really see her as a "Cosplay" person, I see her more like "Used to be a great magical girl back in the day and occasionally comes back to her old costume to help the younger generation".
First thing I thought was Sailor Pluto from Sailor Moon
Remember when star guardians had one color as a primary focus in their design? And how much guardians had pink in the last season too like gawd damn, why, WHY
Nilah, is an anciet warrior veteran...
hops around like a doe...
This used to be my favorite skin but after this video, ill only see it as a 40 year old "hot" mom embarrassing her kids in front of their friends at a birthday/Halloween party 😂😂😂
I dunno even in original sailor moon the magical girls were fully adults until they get reincarnated and some like Pluto stay fully adult, the colors are also great I think this works well
I mean isn't it kind of the lore that Nilah is an old woman in a profession where people die young? Makes sense that she would look out of place a little, it feels like storytelling
if a sword-whip is a magical girl weapon, then byleth is one too
The First Star simply doesn't have the budget for mature uniforms.
I'm going to be honest. I have seen plenty of Magical girl anime and Magical girl warrior anime and I think the outfit is ok.
Though, I think this could use a few tweaks, but it's not really that bad.
And while a lot of magical girls are young, there are magical girls that are in the supporting cast, who can be older and wear the sparkly, frilly outfits.
Or there are anime that feature older looking Magical girls as the protagonists in the story. So, it's not that much of a stretch to see an older magical girl being in a frilly outfit.
She is so sailor Pluto coded❤
Now I'm imagining one of the monstrous male champions in a star guardian cosplay, I think that'd be funny.
Hey Skyen! Would you consider doing design hot takes for Omega Strikers? It's made by some old LoL devs
she looks like a new main character for she ra
This just is making me think “can any of my characters fit in the star guardian universe?”
The answer is, yes. Neither are women, but it DID give me an idea for my disgraced demacian warrior. In this universe, he’d be luxs “uncle” who knows she’s a star guardian, abd desperately tries to get ber to give it up, because its too dangerous. Which he knows, because his wife was a star guardian who died in battle. Gives him personal stakes in all this. Of course, since he’s not a star guardian, he’ll need to be possessed by some kind of evil influence to turn into a monster. Likely he still fits with his wife’s star guardian weapon. Which is also what he does in base. So, now lux has more stakes to save him.
Really wish they went Sailor Saturn mode to make the maturity not make her look like a mother trying on her kid’s cheerleading outfit
wish they made a separate line for evolved or ancient mystery(for the old/ancient star guardians) so they can have a different vibe.
this makes me want to draw a younger star guardian nilah! haha
The stretching torso of characters passively standing around always weirds me out...
There often is an older or more mature magical girl in a unit so it isn't that far fetched to have a few older looking star guardians
Jusr made me think of sailor Jupiter
Honestly, it would maybe be better if it was instead designed more formally, like a dressy suit and tie evoking less star guardian, and more mature star admiral, and maaayybe give it a sleek and showy skirt to remind everyone it's still a star guardian skin
A sparkly sword whip rules!
but isn't soul fighter nilah better? do we not include the exclusive wild rift stuff? BTW please make more stuff about wild rift designs
I agree with your point, but Nilah having in the original story all her emotions erased, leaving only joy remaining could be reinterpreted to her having not develop mature behaviour or got her mature behaviour erased, leaving only the feelings of cheerful, bubbly magical teen.
Slightly unrelated, but this is my first time seeing her model up close and- damn I love the way they animated her eyes.
Fun fact: Nilahs skirt design in this skin is inspired by the Lotus flower, the national flower of India 😊
Love the Redeemed Xayah+Rakan color scheme, I agree
I have the similar issues with Sailor Pluto's sailor scout uniform.
I honestly don’t think it’s the body, but the face, it’s possible to look young with her body type, a ton of teenage girls have a body like that, but her face has that more mature vibe.
She just Sailor Pluto
I think its the opposite, every character should have been de aged as much as possible within reason to fit the skinline.
Sometimes there’s some girls in highschool that matures way faster than others and can develop larger breasts, wider hips or just look way taller and bigger in general. I don’t think her looking more mature is a bad thing for star guardians. Don’t associate looking mature as bad because young girls already get enough criticism and gets sexualized way too early in their life. Let her be.
The exposed back is certainly a step in the right direction for having a more mature magical girl uniform
To me, Coven is the better skin because it makes a more interesting use of her character. To me star guardian just makes Nilah more of the same, she already has that heroic persona
Same sentiments, actually surprised he chose Star Guardian as her best skin since Skyen likes skins that totally bends a character's character and but still has the same fantasy.
My problem with coven is that dress it just looks off it feels not like the coven + the hair looks straight up bad i rather have a eclipse knight it just feels like its a better skin that fits nilah more
@@Muuony valid argument
These are litteraly my favorite colors together, but I'll be forever bothered by the purple diamonds on the front, from far away they unfortunately look like big clown buttons to me
Kinda ironic becuase nilah is younger that some of the others star guardians.
Why did I hear the sped up Lady Marmalade theme?
I love star guardian
Resistance Nilah would be a good fit with the robot heads(Ashlash's ball prision thing) and cables(whip sword) motiff, but those skins are ugly no matter what😂😂😭
And also fits her lore pretty well actually, fighting giant ass robots for glory in order to become a legend amongst the resistance
“A sword whip is just an amazing weapon for a magical girl”
Skyen and I need you to first play omori and then look at sweetheart (the character)
Or more specifically HER weapon
A star guardian that grew up
I would love to hear your thoughts on soul fighter skin
Hey i know you usually dont talk about Wild Rift but whats your opinion on Soul Fighter Nilah?
Mayakashi problem is the extra deck size
Can you do these for some of the WR exclusive skins ?
I'm sorry I just don't like thos skin, it's just I'm not a personal fan of teal and purple color scheme. I hope for a better skin eventually just this champ is cool.
This is why you need to adjust suit for older womans
As a Nilah main they just keep releasing skins that make no sense for her.
She may be too old for a magical girl, but she rocks the uniform tho
Los colores son el problema
I feel like Star Guardian Nilah gets a really bad rep. I think it fits her very well aesthetically (character with a sword whip naturally fits a magical girl) and it also fits her character. Just... yeah can't deny that Nilah looks like a 26 year old mom trying to dress up like a 16 year old, _especially_ in her model.
Eeh I like that even grown up women can wear magical girl fits. It feels more inclusive for people who have a similar body type
Engagement!
This is a swing and a miss for me. The idea that a magical girl character innately looks awkward because of it being a grown woman feels weird and ageist to me and I honestly wish more delightful, colorful character designs were placed on adults. Bringing up cosplay in this way also feels infantilizing towards actual cosplay in a way that I don't like.
Soul Fighter
Why is she a rubberband when shes dancing? 😭
Isn't weird that they aged down some characters to fit the skinline but not Nilah? 🤔
What about soul fighter nilah?
Wtf her face can blink??? There's barely any characters with blinking a animation. I now realize Nilah can.
?? I think precure now have many adult woman
Star guardian Renata when??
Soulfighter is her best skin
I like that, clothes don’t have an age, I think she looks fine😊 mainly defending cause I don’t want people to think this of me when I still have the same style since I was a teen
What is going on with her sword?
Man I hate to disagree with you here. I feel coven is SUCH a good fit for her character that even if it’s done weakly it takes the spot. (Soul fighter Nilah is still her best)