>>26878576 From at least the seventies of the last century to the date of the first production of Pokémon X and Y, the anime series, Cartesian Materialism had been scoring ever greater and wider victories. A designer who therefore did not mind playing snakes and ladders with history, biology, psychology, philosophy, and even probability, in order to press these Romantic-Impressionistic claims further home, could not have expected to meet with deaf ears. He was not blazing a new trail. He was merely heaping fuel on a fire which was already a Japanese, if not a first-world conflagration. And behind him, he had all the vanities, complexes, and secret hatreds and aspirations of the most dedicated watchers, players, and supporters in the world — the perverted and bitter cheats and posers of Deviantart.
It is here, that critics of Greninja, like the present author, reveal a misunderstanding the roots of its resounding success. For instance, it is customary for anyone regarding Greninja, whether with eulogy or contempt, that they mention to its credit that it was its dual nature of the protection of its loved ones, whether kind or fierce, awkward or slick, that won Greninja its audience, who in themselves would wish to implement their own personal conceptions of themselves onto what appeared to be a loftier and nobler species than them, like a child sticking his head into a cutout of a Medieval knight.
