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>Sugimori: “Minccino is the equivalent of Gen 1’s Clefairy. Mr Masuda told us to create a Pokémon that everyone will think is cute, so I enlisted the help of Atsuko Nishida — she’s the designer who created Pikachu. Her skills are second-to-none when it comes to drawing cute characters, so I got exactly what I was looking for when she brought me Minccino and Cinccino. We ended up using Ms Nishida’s designs without making hardly any alterations. Cinccino doesn’t grow much larger after it’s evolved — we only wanted to make it appear a little more elegant.”
