Miki was developed as Miki1020, i.e. to mark 10 years of Poser and 20 of Shade.   She was meant as a Japanese figure, since the existing Poser figures didn't do Oriental features very convincingly at all, although she is pretty versatile.   She was also made quite slight of stature, which has, of course, prompted a few controversies, with some people assuming that short=adolescent.    Since Miki was designed for a special occasion, Miki 2 is a bit of a paradox, but, as paradoxes go, I can think of a lot worse.   Miki 2 is analogous to the G2 figures, in being a "second generation" version and does, I assume, incorporate many of the same ideas and concepts that went into the G2 men and women, without having any specific geometry in common, just as Terai Yuki 2 was, I believe, the original "second generation" e-frontier figure, but also shares no geometry with either Miki 2 or G2.

Doing a second generation of Jessi did seem quite brave, since the original was so strange (although ideal for titles such as "Jessi Gives the Cave Bear a Fright", "Jessi Discovers Fire" and "Jessi Makes a Nice Set of Hand-axes Out of a Flint Nodule").   G2 Jessi is a transformation.   I tend to use Sydney more, but that's probably because I made Sydney my default character and I'm lazy.   Miki 2, though, is the best female character there is.