I like it. I always pictured Kasha and Lip to be about the same height, but there's something very cute about her being a little smaller.
I feel like Kasha should be shorter than Lip because, to me, she always came off as younger and less mature (a lot less mature). Though she's still young and, I feel, not really used to a leadership role--especially considering it was basically foisted on her--Lip is plenty assertive and competent, despite her cuteness inwardly and outwardly. Kasha is just a dork.
And yeah, those are the Chorus Kids!
Lip not appearing at least as a trophy in any smash game is confusing me and the lip stick is an item from panel de pon at least clu clu land had a trophy of the main character and an item has been used in smash but why didn't lip get at least a trophy in smash? she was sticker in brawl but she deserve a good 3d model and information about her since a lot of people outside the smash community may not know her but just recognize the item
It baffles me too, especially in SSB4. You've got a whole bunch of characters and items from significantly lesser, unproved series that did manage to get a trophy, like Nintendouji and Eddy from Fluidity (remember Fluidity? No? Exactly) and even trophies of characters that Nintendo didn't make at all, like CommanderVideo. Panel de Pon was almost 20 years old at that point and
is over 20 years old now, so the fact that its entire representation in said game consists of a single item, its trophy, and a single song recycled from Brawl really stings. (And then, of course, Nintendo of Europe decided that Lip's Stick originated in Panepon's western hackjob "localization" Tetris Attack--and if recent trends are anything to go by, that will hold true for SSB5 in all regions. But that's another can of worms.)
I think that alone is the single biggest contributing factor to my theory at the time, and now, that SSB4 was intended more to advertise contemporary games than celebrate Nintendo's rich history. If it wasn't made within five years of development or didn't hold nostalgic value for those growing up in the 1980s (see: Duck Hunt, Pac-Man's retro-flavored design and moveset), it wasn't fit for inclusion. This was before the Animal Crossing cameo kinda-sorta put the series back on the radar, remember, and since Planet Puzzle League had pretty much killed the series outright seven years prior, Panel de Pon was given the cold shoulder. It's the only excuse I can think of besides the lack of good 3D models, especially since the "boys won't buy girl games" shtick doesn't hold water at all anymore. There's a certain other little-known game with a cute pointy-eared girl as its mascot that Nintendo put out just two years ago, and that did well enough in
all markets to earn a hefty load of merchandise, cameos, even a sequel earlier this year. What's it called again? Splash Toon? I can't remember. Anyway, with the success of that little-known gem and Nintendo finally starting to acknowledge Lip and her series again, I'm really hoping SSB5 will change things for the better. Lip deserves to be playable at this point, I feel--if Bayo made it in, anyone can!
, of course.)
