>>36241536Even Masuda praised Eevee for being an ambiguous creature.
>But the team needed another mascot to headline the second game. “Looking at what pokémon were [available], we saw that a lot of fans would make their own fanart illustrations of Eevee,” Masuda says. “A lot of people. It was pretty obvious to tell they thought it was really cute. It’s kind of like a, not really a dog, not really a cat, something in between, a very different color from Pikachu.”>The vaguely canine, definitely adorable Eevee — in addition to offering the series’s widest variety of evolutions — also has roots in the original Red and Blue games. It was a staple of the game’s rival character, Masuda says. 