>>54525792I think I'm realizing why I really dislike nuPokemon trainer designs with how over the top this Miku line is. It doesn't look terrible, this is one of the better ones, but nu designs try SO fucking hard to be the most overdesigned standout shit ever. But I think that coincides with zoomer tastes considering the atrocious vtubers they drool over, of which only a small handful of designs like Gura are genuinely creative and balanced well while most just have random shit slapped all over them.
Like, look at gen I and II gym leader designs. Gen III is where it starts very slowly to veer into eccentric design territory but the characters still, for the most part, look human. There are clever references in their designs as to what type they specialize in, but it doesn't blatantly put a fucking toxic sludge or literal fucking icicle hairstyle in your face to scream it at you.
>Anon, you're complaining about realism in a series where a fucking walking pile of sewer shit is sentientYeah, I guess, but the weirds hit used to be reserved for the monsters themselves. Over time the entire Pokemon universe warped into this super surreal reality where it doesn't even slightly mirror the real world anymore. Imaging yourself in the Pokemon world used to feel like a foreign country instead of an isekai into ultra fantasy.