>>26810008Let us begin this essay with the very first aspect that approaches any player: The design.
Regarding the design alone, Once it is recognized that the chiaroscuro of Greninja’s physical traits, each in clashing contrast to one another in color, form, ideal, shape, symmetry, and concept, can only imply a hopeless blending of these parts together, an elimination of all those sharp contrasts which the compromising spirit of today’s commercialistic and universal age cannot abide, and a general hugging and embracing of all forms and representations by each other, at the cost of the life of all definite lines; once it is acknowledged, moreover, that all gradations and blurred zones of contact lead inevitably to the very worst forms of character design, and an overall mutilation of beauty and its benefits to the human condition.
The head, alone, transcends everything that I have ever felt disgust for in Pokémon designs (or Digimon, Yo-kai, or Naruto for the matter!) for consummate ineptitude in transfiguring and refusing to retain the bare essentials of beauty and sober design; and particularly in the breast and torso, there is a broadness and a sweeping ease, which ought to be attributed more to incomplete control of essentials than to their actual simplification, the whole figure breathes a spirit so artificial, so uncertain and so tasteless, that it is the nearest approach I can find in Japanese Art to that nadir of art which in fact the particular values of a people find their depths in the degenerated and confused example of their type.
