I wouldn't mind playing as a ninetailed fox. But only if 8/9 tails appeared using a racial ability.
EDIT: never mind. That would mean giving each race a racial ability and we know SE is too lazy to do something so complex.
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From laughter? Seriously, how is she standing with those tails...in most pictures of her they're more spread out and less like having a bunch of bananas strapped to her butt.
http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/a...aldome/Ran.jpg
If SE continue to make races based on what's popular, they'll always please the majority of people. Why on earth would they make something that isn't popular? "Oh, let's make something ugly barely anyone will like!" really doesn't sound like a great idea for a business.
Bangaa or bust!
Also, I think I heard somewhere that that Japanese fanbase prefers races that are "human with bestial features", hence why we have the races the way they are now. From another standpoint, having playable races be mostly human means less work for the gear design team.
If it's always gonna be "well it's like human but cat/dog/rabbit/fox etc" then if not Viera, then how about something like
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...an_Dragoon.jpg
we get our tail, our feet, weird ears and even a snout