>>52790342Yes yes, waifu/coomerbait, I know. Fuck off.
When I first saw it as a kid I didn't like it much since it was so feminine, but on a subsequent playthrough, the though of stuffing a magic woman in my pocket and making her nuke enemies was hilarious to me, and the contrast between it and the rest of my rather masculine team made it even funnier to me.
I didn't even know about the black holes or loyalty to its trainer until years later when I finally knew enough English to read and understand dex entries by myself, but that sold it for me. And yes of course the coomershit also helped when I hit puberty and wanted to put my dick in anything remotely feminine. Pretty sure it's the reason I got into monster girls.