>>53236416yeah, it's everywhere lol. Japs are also extremely addicted to cute stuff, so Tandemaus being popular over there makes even more sense than it does here.
>>53236460>I wouldn't say you need any of those things to understand Maushold at all. You can look at both it and Tandemaus and see "oh a couple of mice turn into family of mice, neat". Maybe I should've clarified: you shouldn't have to see the animations to be interested in the design. The mouths especially are a very useful detail that really add to the design and yet they're entirely absent in all official artwork (unless a tcg card shows them off later? I don't keep up with the tcg), alongside that cooperation together. Their art so far has basically all just been them staring directly at the camera while facing each other or holding their tails together.
>I guess it is just a matter of taste, but I much prefer a less risky but attractive design as a follow up to an already solid basis than them throwing something new and hoping it'd work.That's also fair haha. Maybe i'm just tired after three generations of designs I'm nowhere near as passionate about as the first six.
>Why would this one be latched onto if not for it's inherent appeal?As I mentioned before, meme potential and ease of drawing. Other pokemon might be easy, but Tandemaus and Maushold are EASY easy. Like, five-circles-and-some-lines easy. Which makes a huge difference for animation specifically (mainly due to frames). And having a pokemon concept as mundane as "a normal family" opens up room for a shit ton of easy jokes, especially with their evolution. Jokes about having too many kids, being tired from the kids, going crazy and having their mouths open up and be played up as Lovecraftian horrors because "sanrio mice shouldn't have mouths 3x the size of their eyes" etc etc
I'm probably explaining it poorly- I'm really bad at describing jokes- but basically, they're good fodder for safe shock humor and online animators.
