>>51416932I don't see an issue here. Pokémon are fantasy natural creatures so I see no issue in trying to take inspiration from our very own natural creatures which Pokémon actually does. It's a healthy array of designs that give Pokémon a lot of flexibility. I personally don't have an issue with the so-called "humanoids". We as humans beings tend to look at the world with anthropocentric lenses. For example we have written accounts of Great Apes being described as human and being confused as people, an English sailor wrote on how human-like gorillas look and even in the human imagination we can imagine cryptid animals like big foot as appearing as tall, hairy men. Not so long ago there was a video of a monkey that went viral because people noticed how human-like this money looked. But in truth these aren't human-like at all, they are primates just as humans are, it is our anthropocentric biases that create a division between us and the rest of the primates when we share so much in common. This monkey right here is probably more human-like than any Pokémon, showing that nature doesn't hold back from anything and instead we just have our own human-centric biases.
So for me it's never been a big deal, that framework exists in the real world with humans and other primates. As long as Pokémon doesn't go the cosplay route I don't mind them at all. I do think the complain about jobmons is a bit more legitimate but part of what makes Pokémon fun is that it's a fantastical world full of fantastical natural creatures, a distant yet very familiar land. It's a land where creatures that appear mechanical are actually natural living creatures and where the wildlife all have fantastical qualities and magical powers.
