"However, Janet Crocker of "Anime Fringe" felt Berry was an overly shallow heroine that just mirrored the life Mew Ichigo (from the original "Tokyo Mew Mew") in a shorter form and she dismissed the Saint Rose Crusaders' costumes and plans as being nothing more than concepts borrowed from "Sailor Moon".She also criticized the specific design used for the character Duke, whose white robe she felt was too similar to those used by the white supremacy group, the Ku Klux Klan.