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>But it's not an intentional reference! Kabuto just means stag beetle!
>There's no way they could possibly have known about a digimon with nearly the same name for over 15 years!
If there was a mon in Yokai Watch named Bulbosaur, based on a light bulb, you would post multiple threads a day calling it a ripoff and saying Nintendo should sue.
Look, I'm not saying it's bad to reference another franchise, I'm not. It's just very unlikely to be accidental in this particular case.