FYI: If you like Fancy Lala, I totally respect your opinion on that (despite I haven't seen the actual anime aside from hearing it across some videos on what it was about).
Anyway, I think Miho's OVA design is much better than the late 90's one on how it suits with the other Studio Pierrot magical girls at the time. And I think it's much cuter that way since I tend to find Miho's later design more "mature looking" à la Macross (that I wasn't into like Viga the Otogal was in her "Idols of Anime" series).
Even I have yet to watch the Harbor Light Story OVA to form my own opinion about it (while on the other hand, Vigal the Otogal said that it was "best left forgotten" due to on how she felt for that certain OVA). As for me, I'm not sure if it's meant to be "forgotten" for the best when you already have something like a good character design that tends to beat out the later one (in my opinion, that is).
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