After this thing, I understand now that GF really does just design Pokemon to appeal to furries. I used to be on the fence about it back during Gen 6 with Braixen, and other designs like Lucario, and Zoroark. Because I thought they were just animalistic designs that just happend to be biped, so I thought they were cool through the lens of nostalgia and pure naivety. But I can't deny the pattern I'm seeing in certain designs.
For example pic rel. There's literally nothing grass type about it besides the fact that its green, It's just bipedal lynx cat-thing ripe for furry pandering. It barely qualifies as a battle ready monster. There's nothing even remotely clever, deep, or funny about its concept or designs. It's just a green biped cat with a mask and cape.
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Reject humanoid shit
Return to animal
The damage Gen 3 started can not be reverted
>Reject humanoid shit
agreed
I don't know if you want to use that particular mon on the board that made the Black person thief mon in Clover
Psychic and fighting types can't be humanoid shit, they can be the only proper humanoids. It was their thing to be weirdos.
Humanoid shit is the open floodgates we have now.
Yeah! that's why nidoqueen is based, because it is psychic or fighting. Got it.
I have no problem with the ghost living in armor.as a pokemon.
>There's literally nothing grass type about it besides the fact that its green
Look closely at the left cape part, there's leaf veins there, and that shape actually is an established leaf motif. The collar is also just as much a "flower" pattern as Chikorita or Bayleaf have on their necks, for all those two are more "buds" with respect to Meganium. Could do with some leaf veins being in the "standard" art to clarify and possibly having a five-point mask (or mask-resembling ear+whisker patterning) to retain that pattern.
This specific art is on better grounding than Tangela or Treeco, as blue vines aren't a real thing and the latter could just as well be a pair of fat tails, though it is much less straightforward than most. The usual art is reduced to "turtle has a twig" level inclusion from the collar where grass type starters would normally be at least a third plant-based by this point.
Another change I'm partial to is bringing the darker green down to the ankle joint for "thigh"-highs, while breaking up the arms by doing similar with "gloves". Then the patterning is mimicking the typical cat "sock" pattern on different proportions.
The modern art and contemporary concept art for the same Pokemon would look out of place in that image as well, as would the Anime's implementation of Machoke, the Hitmons, and Jynx.
There have always been "a funny-looking person" Pokemon, and there has always been artstyle disparity by medium. It has increased noticeably and the drift of each medium over time is itself noticeable, but if you sit Ceruledge besides Skarmory art they fit together better than most franchises manage after 20 years. Compare Space Crusade to 2008 40k, for instance.
when you put it into the right context this thing really doesn't look like it comes from the same series. how did we get here?
By not going from gen 1 anime to Gen 9 official art. And by taking 26 years of evolution to produce it instead.
Top bird is current art, bottom bird is original. The underlying designs fit fairly well beside eachother, but it's three very obviously different artstyles.
>NOOO WHY THE POCKET "MONSTERS" GAME HAS MONSTERS
I still don’t get how you autists even become fans of this franchise to begin with
anon says while posting just a fish
The more i see the green cat posted the more i start to understand the appeal
Looks grassy to me.
AHHHHH
This isn't a furry design. I'm not a furry, never was a furry, actually find furries abhorrent and I want to frick this pokemon
kys
Yeah it's true. Why are you mad?
picrel is you thinking about this
>There's literally nothing grass type about it besides the fact that its green
moron.
And yet it's still one of the best starters in the franchise
catgays are fricking delusional
Not as delusional as crocgays who think their starters are anything other than abominations.
>For example pic rel. There's literally nothing grass type about it besides the fact that its green
if you ignore the cape made of leaves and the flower neck thing and the literall fricking floating flower are you illiterate by any chance?
Those seem like they were added after-the-fact
i will never not be mad to the fact that we could get a cool puss in boots but instead we got this stupid furrybait mon
I think this is the first gen they made deliberately furry/gay designs
Someone post the webm from Unite.
I'm not well versed on Spanish culture but I feel like there's some references to some sort of Spanish folklore with this mon
Aside from vaguely resembling the Iberian Lynx, nothing about Meowscarada's mascarade/jester/street magician motif strikes me as specifically Spanish.
The three starters look more like they were based on Latin American cultures and festivities rather than European.
???????????????? The croc and the duck were, I'm struggling to see the Hispanic influences in Meow but that's because I know they generally base feminine looking pokémon off female inspirations and Meow's Pokémon Doronjo.
Ever since Greninja's ludicrous success GF has tried and will continue to try to emulate it by making furry jobmon shill starters. Blaziken started the problem, Lucario worsened it, and Greninja was the final nail in the coffin. I like all three designs, but they've been disastrous for the franchise.
they're still trying to shill Zeraora
Starter designs are grown in a lab to be the most marketable to the most people. Apparently that means bipedals based on well-known animals.