>>36018574>>36059478He pushed for Silver being Giovanni's kid during a time when it wasn't really accepted or known that Silver was his kid.
A one-off line about a red-haired boy could've been anyone from some random scientist you beat in the Sevii Islands.
Kusaka went with it and marketed it hard.
A lot of fans liked the idea because it made Giovanni more human and relatable in that sense, and thus it was retconned when the HGSS games became a thing.
Game Freak does look at the spinoff material and cherry picks what they like. Same concept as the manga that Silver is the son, but Silver wasn't kidnapped by some fucking old pedo who wanted his Lapras back.
Also Gold originally had a skateboard as shown in the Spaceworld demo and what does Manga Gold use for the most of the GSC arc?? A fucking skateboard.
One of the latest interviews says that he gets the game really early in advance, so I have no doubt he has access to prototypes or betas.
I mean AniPoke did too when they were doing the flashbacks for the Johto Dogs/Cats/Beasts
