Talk:Lei/@comment-31720212-20190619012520/@comment-27031093-20190619015922

The text that comes with the cow-Lei sketch explicitly mentions redesigning him as a beast rather than a humanoid, so I'd assume that he'd be all cow all the time. It would also conveniently make dealing with him mostly a non-issue for Rance's chances with the conspicuously now young and cute Mary.

A running theme with Orion's commentary on the VI Dark Lord sketches is his interest in changing them drastically from their Kichikuou portrayals, either to avoid making them repetetive or simply to challenge himself as an artist. He says in particular that he's worried that there isn't much more that can be done with Lei that hadn't been covered in Kichikuou Rance.

By the time X came around, his thinking seems to have shifted from completely redesigning them to focusing on parts of their characters that didn't get much coverage in Kichikuou; in Lei's case the origin of his relationship with Mary.