>>40598074Said cowboy gym leader is actually Japanese or whatever you call the Pokemon equivalent.
>Ohmura: “Designing this character was incredibly difficult. First of all, he’s a tycoon and president of a mining company. And he’s also based on people of Japanese descent who live outside of Japan — we’ve heard about the kind of people who move abroad, and are out chasing the American Dream. In thinking about these pioneering types, we decided on Clay’s old-fashioned western outfit. During the development of Black and White, there was talk about giving all the Gym Leaders different body types — so in contrast to Elesa, we narrowed the shoulders and made Clay short, stout, and kind of rotund. He’s a company president, but he’s not the kind of guy who’s always sitting at his desk — rather, there was a specification for him to be the type of person that doesn’t delegate things he can do himself. We also gave him a cellphone and other things to hold, in order to give the impression that he’s a pretty busy guy.” 