>>43085079Because Lana is popular on her own merit, her design is different and not to everyone's liking, she is not highly sexualized like other pokegirls, and she has an unusual personality.
It is quite an achievement given the closed tastes of the Japanese public, it is incredible that they are racist even to themselves, when I lived with a group of Japanese friends they confessed to me that the western features seemed rough and ungraceful to them, but they loved the skin color and hair of the Aryan race, and hated the slanted eyes and dark skin of other people in Asia. The girl in the group was more mature taking into account personality, education, and other qualities, the only superficial feature that interested her was the height of her partner.
Basically any Saber-like character is an immediate success.
