Proto-Noe looks great... probably
too great. An anime character looking like
that would have guys flocking around her, no matter how eccentric she is (and if Noe was super-popular with the guys that
really would throw a wrench into True Tear's plot, for reasons that should be obvious to anybody who's watched all of it). Proto-Noe also violently reminds me of another anime character, although I can't place the name for that character.
I also saw short-hair Hiromi... Proto-Noe and short-haired Hiromi would have
really changed the feel of True Tears, imo.