>>52247420It's not only that he didn't design characters but also the fact he no longer "tweaks" the designs to match a single artstyle (Sugimori didn't create the original 151, but he did drew them all in his style from their sprite art)
Ever since Gen 7 they started relying more and more on freelance artists with their own quirks that look good in a vacuum but pretty horrid alongsode other humans in the Pokemon universe. They had the Bayonetta and Mario RPG designers working on SV, and that's supposed to be a good thing when what they made doesn't "feels" lile Pokemon?
But that's the official art, the models seem to suffer from this
>>52247603 seemingly they believe that as a global brand and have broader appeal with normies they have to tone down the anime feel of the characters (also why Ed fucking Sheeran is in the
