>>26878642 I will say without meekness that the bulk of modern Pokémon players, especially those how have continued to play and talk about the game long after their childhood, are plagued with some form of autism. This fact, all too well known to the game developers and publishers, is quite poorly understood if we try to regard its influence on taste and quality in merchandise and design production. For not only does Greninja attempt to reveal the trait common to all watchers of the anime or players of the game- a tendency to identify themselves with any or multiple notable characters of the anime, game, etc. (beyond the player’s protagonist, of course), or with the portrait of humanity portrayed in a rationalistic or fantastical treatise- but they are also addicted to the practice of confounding that which is ideal, comfortable, and pleasant to themselves with that which is necessary and true. Thus in the autistic player or watcher, there is a doublefold tendency to be able to tolerate or to even applaud blatant hypocrisy, speciousness, superficiality, and / or cant.
For, on the one hand, they must view truth and achievement hedonistically, and, on the other hand, they must feel deep discomfort, either when they find themselves unable, through their false idealization of themselves, their motives, and the latter two in regards to the Pokémon or character that they must project themselves towards, in order to identify themselves with the deep, intellectual, meaningful, and, ultimately, contrary portrayal of a certain hero or heroine (The Marowak during the trainer battle before the Kanto Elite Four in the anime, for instance), or, when they find themselves reading of human nature, or worldly phenomena, which is based upon their idealized reading of themselves and their own specific environment, affronted and sent to the hull by a picture of humanity which shatters their rose-tinted view.
