there are several things wrong with that exchange and the drama but i think for everyone's sake it's best to ignore all that and treat this as just a neat name connection and nothing more
If you say the Hades version of Hestia is bad, you're wrong. If you say the Hades version of Hestia is good, you're also wrong. If you say you like or dislike the Hades version of Hestia, you're right, whichever it is. Same with the DanMachi version. Taste is subjective.
I do kinda agree that the Hades-version of Hestia is a little...unique, but I wouldn't say that Danmachi's is flat-out better.
Using a design from a anime harem show as comparison, probably wasn't the best idea either... But in general when people say (from both sides) that one fanfic design is better than the other fanic, you both lost the argument.
If you say the Hades version of Hestia is bad, you're wrong. If you say the Hades version of Hestia is good, you're also wrong. If you say you like or dislike the Hades version of Hestia, you're right, whichever it is. Same with the DanMachi version. Taste is subjective.
If you stray too much on both directions from the original design but still have the gall to call it by the same name, it's not 'artistic creativity'. Taste may be subjective, but at what point you put so many personal twist on thing and expect people to recognize it as the same thing as the original?
If you stray too much on both directions from the original design but still have the gall to call it by the same name, it's not 'artistic creativity'. Taste may be subjective, but at what point you put so many personal twist on thing and expect people to recognize it as the same thing as the original?
There's no gall here. It's completely ridiculous to act like Hestia Danmachi and Hestia Hades are even the same character to begin with. They're from entirely different IPs that have nothing to do with each other, and their only commonality is that they're each to some degree based off of a deity from a religion that hasn't been actively worshiped by more than a few thousand people for over a millenium and a half.
