As a bit of trivia, in the very early character designs from 1999 Lumiere’s design was actually indentical to the SC0163 version (seen in episode 13). Her Eclair has essentially the same colour scheme but different hairstyle (think Nanoha from StrikerS but with the ponytail on the other side) and clothes.

‘Character confusion’

As an Éclair devotee…….My suggestion:

Mr Gotoh, take a close look at the original Éclair and Lumiere images… as seen in the first 2/3rds of the series.

You will observe 2 of the most adorable characters ever conceived (oh yes… and you may also remember… it was YOUR brilliant idea to introduce them in this form).

Now, after some careful study…. you will become familiar with how they originally looked. One thing you will notice is, Eclair has lovely red hair and amazing amber eyes, yes?

She wears a cute little dress with a cheeky upside down cross with matching boots…. yes?

Now, after familiarizing yourself as to what what Éclair and Lumiere actually look like….. please, un-confuse yourself…. and your fans…. and arrange to re-draw our girls to original specifications and speedily return them to us.

You can call it it KG-2 or even the ‘Continuing Adventures of Eclair and Lumiere’…. I dont care….. just make them look like themselves again….. please?????

Asread’s animation in Shuffle was pretty nice, I’ve got high hopes for KG2 in that department.