>>53082597Yes. Gengar for example isn't depicted as a lonely entity that's going to harms you or kill you as the pokedex implies. Ash's Gengar, for example, was depicted as an abandoned dog, one commentator on reddit called the debut episode the 'Jurassic Bark' of Pokémon.
In essence what people here are picking up is that there's feminine designs which doesn't equal what you're implying. It's not like in Digimon where that sort of thing is pretty open, both in context and design, which Pokémon doesn't do either. You're trying to paint Tajiri as a deviant when evidence suggests that you're wrong on all counts. First because his biography is pretty open of how he thinks of Pokémon. This panel here shows that he thinks of them as being like cats and dogs which is a viewpoint that is reinforced in the following panels as he imagines Pokémon battles as two dog owners in the real world allowing their dogs to fight, according to him the angles Pokémon fights are drawn in are inspired by this. In short it clearly cements his statement. And this isn't something that materialized out of the blue, the 1996 Pokedex guide written by GameFreak has this in one of their sections:
More fearsome than a cat, more kind than kaiju, those are pokemon
People quickly think of Pokemon to be like Kaiju. There's a strong image of Kaiju being evil, but in this world there isn't such a thing. They're friends to humans like dogs and cats.
Tajiri even wrote something similar in 1995 in a book recovered by Dr. Lava. Takeshi Shudo talks about some of these things in his blog as well, for example how they decided Pokémon would eat berries and Pokémon food, basically what visually looks exactly like dry dog food, among other things during the planning stages of the anime.
