>>37624540There's a difference between including pretty girls and waifu pandering. Look at, say, a shoujo manga. There's plenty of pretty girls in most of them, but they aren't designed for the male eye, they aren't sexualized. Well, generally. Pokemon's character design in Gen 1-3 was generally more just normal character designs for RPG characters. You can tell that at some point, what would be attractive to a male eye started to become a factor. I'll use Skyla as an example again as she's the most obvious.
>cute anime girl face (but that's normal)>unusually colored hair in a distinctive style>skintight top covering breasts which are clearly large relative to the other characters in the franchise>stomach/midriff is exposed>tiny short shorts to expose as much leg as possible>straps throughout which are clearly gripping her skin tightlySkyla was designed at least partially to be attractive to men. And not that there's really anything wrong with this, it's just how it is.
