A former tech director who left four years ago, a seemingly innocuous PV title — and the connection between them has sent Honkai: Star Rail players into a frenzy.
A sharp-eyed player posted on NGA pointing out that Acheron's (黄泉) PV in Honkai: Star Rail is titled "Your Color" (你的颜色), while former miHoYo technical director He Jia (贺甲) once created an MMD (MikuMikuDance) showcase video set to the song "Dyed in Your Color" (染上你的颜色). The connections go deeper — the PV itself repeatedly features imagery related to "being dyed in your color." Screenshots included in the post show side-by-side comparisons between He Jia's original MMD footage and the Acheron PV's visual style. If this is a coincidence, it's one hell of a coincidence.
According to the post, He Jia left miHoYo in 2020, moved to Tencent, and later ended up at YHKT Entertainment (艺画开天) — the very studio behind the infamously butchered Three-Body Problem (三体) animated adaptation. The OP couldn't resist adding: "Can't tell which version is worse — theirs or Netflix's." Commenters jumped in to debate, with one noting that the Netflix version is actually more offensive, and that Bilibili users are now apologizing in YHKT's comment section. Another pointed out that the best Three-Body adaptation worldwide is still the fan-made Minecraft version "My Three-Body" — a wild testament to how low the bar has fallen.
Just as everyone was getting nostalgic about the former tech lead, a highly upvoted comment dropped a bombshell question: "Wasn't there someone who said this character is based on miHoYo's Korean artist Yomi? The pronunciation seems the same." The comment section instantly erupted into multiple factions going at each other's throats.
Those against the "self-insert" (皮套) theory fired back hard: "I specifically went to dig up that old post. The only 'evidence' they could come up with was that the Japanese reading of 黄泉 (Yomi) sounds like the artist's name. This character has existed as a variant since Honkai Impact 2nd — if a shared reading is all it takes to call something a self-insert, then every character named Yomi with a Japanese VA would qualify." Others suggested the name likely draws from the classic anime character Saya Yomi (谏山黄泉), a massively popular figure in the yuri community who won the 2009 Saimoe tournament, and whose design shares similarities with Raiden Mei.
But the pro-self-insert camp wasn't backing down: "Stop coping. The character Yomi was leaked through an official miHoYo insider right after the Korean artist Yomi at miHoYo was exposed. Her English name was literally 'Yomi' at first — they changed it later. She's an alternate-form version of an existing character, and the fact that she shares the exact name with a real miHoYo artist doesn't conflict with the self-insert theory. Learn some logic." Some even threw shade by asking what other works artist Yomi had done besides Faruzan (珐露珊), implying her talent didn't warrant such a tribute.
It's worth noting that some commenters acknowledged rumors about miHoYo having a pattern of creating self-insert characters aren't entirely baseless, while others pushed back by pointing to characters like Silver Wolf and Luocha — essentially saying "not everything has to be a self-insert conspiracy."
Beyond the tribute and self-insert debates, the comment section was a chaotic buffet of hot takes: someone roasted Acheron's in-game model saying "without the chest, I genuinely can't tell if this is a male character, and it's getting worse"; another called the BGM "reeking of Japanese vibes"; and one nostalgic commenter sighed that with Cai Haoyu (蔡浩宇, aka "Cai Meow") stepping back, everyone suddenly misses "Bro Jia" (He Jia). The entire thread, which started as a simple tribute discovery, snowballed into a full-blown community reckoning over miHoYo's creative traditions, character design motivations, and the fate of former employees. Whether Acheron is a pure tribute or something deeper — well, only the creators know for sure.
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