>Playing GSC>Enjoying Kanto's new color pallet and the more detailed Gym Leader designs>Oh boy Misty next>"Excuse me miss, you should not be this cute."I readily agree she's the most fetching version, I like the silly hair and even though most official art is as wide-eyed as ever it does look like a star of what an adult Misty would look like. But it makes sense when you think it all the way through - you would expect a glow-up of an iconic character that appears in one of the series more popular games to get a LITTLE more buzz, but at the end of the day the anime version is the iconic one, and the Gen 2/4 version is both not that character, and not really a character at all.
>>49385866 is correct that she's most appealing as a fairly blank slate for your own hypothetical "Misty Prime"