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Now that I think about it, the broad concept of beta Clamperl & Huntail was revisited with Tatsugiri and Dondozo.
>simplistic sea creature living inside the mouth of dopey looking sea creature
>Beta Huntail's lure has a smiley face, possibly indicating it was its own sentient creature (think like Tatsugiri serves as Dondozo's lure)