>>12970856Seems so, at the moment. /vp/ hasn't really made a big deal out of this, but at the developer's conference, it was mentioned that the theme of Gen VI was 'beauty.' If you look at all of the pokemon released so far, you can see that influence very clearly.
I wonder if Gen V had a theme. I wasn't tapped into the hype machine then, so I just played the game at face value.