Alright I hate to do this but I'm on playthrough number whatever and I'm still trying to figure out the pop culture identities of all the special girls. I've got most of them figured out at this point, but the dwarf girl, Suki, and the sheep girl, Anna, have me completely stumped.
I've seen konoshige's dwarf princess and watame both suggested, but I don't think those are them; there are too many small differences in each of those examples, and all of the other designs are so utterly on-the-nose that I believe these two must be more obvious references too, just to things I don't know.
Do any of you guys recognize them?
What I've figured out so far:
special human girl
special elf girl
special dwarf girl
special wolf girl
special cat girl
special rabbit girl
special sheep girl
special dragon girl
I'll edit this post when I figure them out, but please help, this has been bothering me for a while now.
EDIT: the girl's unique traits also tend to be references to their characters (though not always) so I added those to the spoilers.
EDIT2: I think I've figured out who the sheepgirl is (thanks to people on ulmf), so I've added Anila, another granblue character, to the list