>>19028038There was a huge fucking uproar over Jynx's apparent blackface around the time of the introduction of the baby prevos, so along with the color change to purple GameFreak avoided giving Jynx an evo to avoid drawing attention to it.
>inb4 is not blackface idiot is this japanese culture reference at the timeThere's a strong case that both served as the inspiration for Jynx's design due to both being prevalent in Japanese culture at the time, so no, blackface is a very reasonable assumption.
