>>39044268>>Sugimori: “Munna and Musharna were also designed by Ms Nishida. For this design there weren’t any requirements — I just asked Ms Nishida to draw anything, and she ended up bringing me a design for a tapir with a dream coming out of its head. Actually, at that point we hadn’t come up with the concept for the game’s Dream World yet — so later when we realized there was already a Pokémon perfectly suited to the Dream World, we were very happy that we had Musharna. We needed this to be a two-stage family, so then we created Munna.This is such a blunder; basically, they're saying there was almost no editing process involved, and they didn't even tell her to try and make a particularly interesting design or what they were going to do with it; and on top of that, their process for making the rest of the line boils down to "it gets smaller and cuter"
Imagine if this is how the majority of the Unova dex came about