>>41679654>Pokemon has been marketed to girls since the inception of Pokemon in 1996. Clefairy was originally going to be the mascot, and there are tons of girly pokemon designed to appeal toward girls. They were even planning on having a playable female character (Green/Blue).And the reason why they DIDN'T do any of that is because they realized they have to primarily market to boys
>A female is a better fit for the stark contrast between N, black and white, ying and yangThat is not better reasoning than a parallel backstory made to show a repeat of history. There's already the contrast of truth and ideals, a genderswap doesn't add anything substantial to the conflict
>Also, the mom in BW1 looks exactly like Hilda.She has features of both. The bottom half of her face might as well have been copy/pasted from Hilbert's art
