{"id":74745,"date":"2026-04-06T19:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74745"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:46:06","slug":"we-moved-away-from-that-baby-face-overwatch-reveals-updated-look-for-anran-following-fan-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74745","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Moved Away From That Baby Face\u2019 \u2014 Overwatch Reveals Updated Look For Anran Following Fan Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Overwatch has unveiled an updated look for one of its newest heroes, Anran, following criticism of how her face previously looked in-game.<\/p>\n<p>The redesign has happened following an initial backlash from the community and the voice actor who portrays the fire fan-wielding damage dealer, Fareeha, who claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/this-is-a-hill-worth-dying-on-overwatch-actor-supports-potential-redesign-of-criticized-character\">\u201cthis was a hill worth dying on\u201d<\/a> after it was suggested that Anran was yet another victim of Overwatch\u2019s \u201cSame Face Syndrome\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This syndrome is the suggestion that many of the female heroes in Overwatch suffer from the fact that they all have basically the exact same facial features, whether that be the Swedish Brigitte, British Tracer, Japanese Kiriko, Martian Juno, or, up until now, Chinese Anran.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"overwatch-official-season-1-conquest-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Back in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/we-agree-that-she-can-be-even-better-overwatch-director-responds-after-voice-actor-and-fans-say-changes-are-needed-to-new-character-anran\">Blizzard revealed that plans were underway for a rethink<\/a> when it came to Anran\u2019s appearance, stating that \u201cwe agree that she can be even better\u201d. Well, now we\u2019ve finally got a look at the result of those tweaks.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on Overwatch\u2019s social media, game director Aaron Keller says, \u201cI wanted to take a moment to share the updated version of Anran\u2019s in-game look. We want our heroes to feel unique, but we also want their visuals to match their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch has unveiled an updated look for one of its newest heroes, Anran, following criticism of how her face previously looked in-game. The redesign has happened following an initial backlash from the community and the voice actor who portrays the fire fan-wielding damage dealer, Fareeha, who claimed that \u201cthis was a hill worth dying on\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":74747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74749,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74745\/revisions\/74749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}