>>38555315They let Americans create them too now. Which is why there's a fucking ice cream cone with eyes.
In all seriousness, most of Pokemon was written by a man who was mis-diagnosed as autistic as a baby, and was raised as if he was going to be before they realized he wasn't and just kind of let him wander around the countryside doing whatever he wanted. Which included raising generations of insects because he wanted to collect them, but didn't want to kill them, so he waited until he had the species and stages he needed and had died of natural causes. Also exploring caves alone, hiking, fishing, and riding his bike through old abandoned country roads.
Which all came between watching a kids TV show that is basically HR Puffinstuff mixed with Captain Planet where a kid wandered through a magical land and used magic rocks to summon friendly monsters to help him. Pokemon literally began as a concept for a video game license of that IP that him and his brother talked about making.
