>>55881009To be honest it sounds more like they were designed perfectly with their theming being (relatively) subtle compared to something like Pangoro which is literally just screaming at you HEY THIS IS JOTARO DO YOU GUYS GET IT, ITS JOTARO. The Pokemon are their own thing and aren't dominated by the fact that they're punks, though this could probably also be attributed to Americans knowing fuckall about Japanese culture and not picking things up.
>They really needed to choose one theme and go for it. I'll take something like the elemonkeys over later designs like Gen 8 that throw any sense of subtlety out the window and just making the Pokemon a walking reference or stereotype and literally nothing else.