/jp/ - Otaku Culture

You know that theory about Renko and Yumemi being related in some way? I am nearly 100% convinced that it's real at this point. There is so much evidence supporting it that I am legit flabbergasted that I've seen no one mention some of it.

Like the red doll on the cover of CoSD, I've seen people mention it before, but no one seems to have pointed out that its hairstyle is nearly identical to Yumemi's, ponytail and all. Nor has anyone mentioned its near fucking identical pose to Renko.
Why a doll anyway? Perhaps it's a reference to PoDD's cover, the characters on it are plush toys according to ZUN. Also, how has Yumimi Mix being the likely origin of Yukari's gap design not raise a giant red flag? Did ZUN go back and play it for shits and giggles?
Did he already have the idea of a character like Yukari while making PoDD? All I know is that Ghostly Field Club came out less than five months after PCB and given Maribel and Yukari's name relation, its safe to assume that they and Renko were designed at roughly the same time.
Meaning there is a rather sizable chance that ZUN was playing Yumimi Mix while designing Renko.

Like come on, Dr. Latency's Freak Report is about Maribel and Renko creating the exact same pseudo-scientific "Magic is real!" papers that got Yumemi Laughed out of the academy for. It also contains this beautiful and totally subtle line
"To Renko Usami, Merry appeared to be a scholar of truth, who would open the eyes of all the delusion-spouting physicists.".

Maybe this is all common knowledge on the Japanese side of things? This isn't even half the shit I could be talking about these two.