>>46968972>they didn't in the Giratina movie so they can't do it nowGiving a girlish feature to a girl character's pokemon isn't a hard concept to grasp, anon. They did it for pokemon owned by female trainers in the past, such as Serena's Eevee. Not to mention the eyes aren't exactly the same in sky forme in
>>46958309 since the shaymin has a crescent highlight at the bottom of her pupil while her mom has a circular highlight despite both being in the same lighting. People could also mistake this shaymin for the movie one if they were exactly the same or lose it in the goodbye scene, so yes, that's worth avoiding and reason enough to add eyelashes. Also note that SM did character designs differently, so being a quirk of the animation staff is also very possible.
>It's intentional and the writers meant toThen provide source to prove it. The only thing I could find was a side note one the similarities in eyes on bulbapedia for mallow's mom and shaymin, which doesn't mention anything about reincarnation. Not to mention it's a kids show, so they absolutely would have spelled out if that's what they were going for, or at least referenced it somewhere else such as land forme's eyes or something before the last episode. They did in no uncertain terms for similar topics with Stoutland and Minior.
>It can work because fiction and how media portrays itBoilerplate reason aside, I'm pretty sure even the media can grasp that a person's soul can't be both reincarnated and an apparition at the same time. I've seen enough isekai anime to know that anime writers don't think like that, but I haven't seen them all, so an example or two wouldn't hurt.
