>>55768423Meanwhile, starting with Period 3, Nishida was put onto the team to design more cute Pokemon to round out the world, and the team focused on typings and evolution.
There are significantly less Sugimori-eyed designs. Even ones like Charizard and Golbat didnt get the sugimori-eyes until his redesigns were made for the official artwork.
So you can technically argue the Sugimori eye design philosophy was already dead long before Gen 1 was even out.
