>>26878816And this style, by connection to the displays mentioned above, essentially indict the miserable creature into having every harmonious element of the body and mind be comprised of this horrid passion for display, for show, for attention- the three elements incompatible with any physical or spiritual feature of the humble and noble ninja! Thus, any attempt by any fan of Greninja to try and excuse its discordant and muddled mess of a figure with its personality, or by doing the converse by trying to compensate for its incompatibly flamboyant, inefficacious, and ultimately harmful personality with its looks, is merely a shallow attempt to try and cover up a single portion of the mess by attaching an equally representative portion to the front of the creature, followed by a vain and futile attempt to try and ignore the ultimate relationship between the two traits.
Fans will reply: "But surely a Pokémon and its designer is entitled to use anything that comes to hand or mind in order to entertain his audience — even the most absurd thoughts of the most wicked men!"
Perhaps so! But then do not let us speak of Greninja as the "redemption of Pokémon", the "Number One", the "proof of karmatic and immanent justice within the universe", as many recently have done. To be blinded to this extent by material and popular success and by the fact that a Pokémon’s name has, for the last three years, been constantly in the headlines of our media and our video game press, may be typical of modernity and of bourgeois decadence, but it is hardly reasonable or sane.
