Thanks Ryu, and good to see you.
As I thought, I knew if I'd gotten it correctly, I wouldn't end up liking the result because of how the character's proportions are so crazy, cuz even looking at your sprite, I'm thinking, "That's supposed to be a head?", "Wait, That's supposed to be a FIN?!"
Oh, and I consciously left out the patterns on the character's beck because when I added them, looking at the sprite as a completed piece, I was sure that the response from people was going to be a unanimous, "That kind of detail is too small to be noticeable for this kind of sprite size."