>>37727893>chinese zodiac covers a wide spectrum of fairly common animals>the fact that there are pokemon that look like animals means they're clearly based on the chinese zodiacAlso, a lot of these are grasping at straws and you know it.
>Turtles are dogs>Cyndaquil is a rat>Bulbasaur is an ox>Chikorita is a fucking HORSEWhy cling so desperately to something that doesn't really make sense to begin with? I mean, I guess you can argue "it doesn't specifically have to be based on the species in the zodiac, it just has to be based on something similar", so Chespin is just "a rodent" and Fennekin is just "a canine" and any lizard can be counted as a dragon, but there's no explaining how the fuck Chikorita is a goddamn horse.
