>>56807570yeah, it's like 99% just a random coincidence, and the Japanese depicting Americans as blonde-haired and blue-eyed in media.
Mina being there was probably just a random cameo, like how Grimsley was just randomly in Alola for some reason... in a Kimono, again for reasons that haven't been explained, at least to me.
But fan theories are still fun even if they don't hold much weight under scrutiny.
