warota
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"otsu" means "yo" or "what's up" doesn't it?
Kagami's standard greeting.

Hi nyodude, thanks for your interest. AFAIK, "otsu" is not related to Kagami at all. "Otsu" (乙) is a Japanese slang that roughly corresponds to "thx" in English. The phrase is a shortened form of an ordinary greeting "otsukaresama" (お疲れ様) to show your appreciation to someone's laborious work. You may notice that the slang is written in a different kanji character from those used for the original greeting. This is an example of phonetic substitution (i.e. to use kanji characters as phonetic symbols without taking their literal meanings into account) that is very common in written Japanese slangs.

By the way, you have correctly recognized the female character as Kagami, probably because you know a piece of Japanese ASCII art this 3D model is intended to imitate. It seems that the imitation is successful -- that's a great reward for me. Thanks! ;)

Hi nyodude, thanks for the comment. BTW, I don't get the question. What do you mean by changing the polygon count?

Hi nyodude, I don't know exactly what the difficulties you are facing are, so all I can suggest would be something general. I guess you have trouble with mesh editing, right? To freely refine the meshes to the extent you get satisfied with, you need to use those tools in the Edit mode such as Extrude (E), Loop Cut (Ctrl-R), Knife (K), Split (V) and Merge (W 5). You may have to get used to mesh editing with these tools. This requires a lot of practice and may take a while, but I am pretty sure that you will be able to get accustomed with mesh editing in the end if you have good enough passion for 3D modeling in Blender.

Have you seen beginners tutorials that explain how to edit meshes in Blender? If you haven't, I would recommend to start with online tutorials including those in the Blender documentation:
wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Your_First_Animation
wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Animation/BSoD/Character_Animation
When I was a beginner, I went through the first tutorial to reproduce Gus the Gingerbread Man. I also like a modeling tutorial in Tony Mullen's "Introducing Character Animation with Blender":
amazon.com/dp/0470102608/

All these tutorials deal with mesh editing with the SubSurf modifier, which is an indispensable functionality if you want to get smooth surfaces like those found in my models. Just try to model a 3D figure with the SubSurf modifier in the ways the tutorials describe. When I was a beginner, however, meshes with the SubSurf modifier appeared difficult to manipulate. I scratched my head so many times because I was not able to reshape the subsurfaced meshes as I wanted. The irritation at that time was totally a mess. I would say that subsurfaced mesh editing is less intuitive and may pose a lot of trouble to beginners.

That is why in my post you referred to, I recommended to start with a 3D model without the SubSurf modifier and with a very low polygon count. Without the SubSurf modifier, you will get sharp (not smooth) surfaces, but you will find it relatively easier to manipulate meshes as you want. You can divide the meshes as many times as you want in order to get smoother surfaces (although they are still sharp if you closely look at them), but be careful: too fine meshes may make editing too laborious. So try to "approximate" the ideal shapes with sharp meshes with as a low polygon count as possible. You will appreciate the ability to approximate 3D shapes with a small number of polygons when you move on to modeling with the SubSurf modifier. Approximation with a low polygon count will keep subsurfaced mesh editing managable. The SubSurf modifier can be switched off during mesh editing, and doing so will help you check if the sharp meshes constitute a good approximation of the ideal shapes even without the SubSurf modifier. I believe this is a practical quality criterion for subsurfaced meshes.

I hope this helps. Good luck!