>>47388874Humans and chimpanzees are physically more alike than you think but that’s not my point. Of course the thing is humanoid in the sense that it’s bipedal and has two arms, legs and a head but that’s just appearance wise. My point is that in Pokémon being humanoid doesn’t mean anything. A Gardevoir isn’t any more of a person than an eevee, they’re both equally human in context
More to point I’m trying to make is showing that throwing buzzwords like “humanoid woman” don’t actually mean much. As I already pointed out we have examples of real animals being referred to as men and women but we know better than that. Just like you call Gardevoir a humanoid women when it’s not one just like the chimps referred to as women by the Carthaginian explorer aren’t women.
As for the Pokémon, they’re meant to be both animal and monster. Just like the monster in SMT are the supernatural, demons and dirties or in digimon they’re digital creatures. Pokken is a fighting game so they gave specific personalities to the characters like your Gardevoir, or Blaziken being a Jet Lee impersonator or Braixen being a magical girl. But in New Snap, which is sold as being able to see Pokémon in the wild they chose to portray Gardevoir as a magical wild animal and they even made it sound like an animal. When people see these types of screen caps from the anime they’re not getting the impression that Gardevoir is a “humanoid woman”, they get the impression that it’s an animal stand-in. This is an image pushed by GF themselves. Context is so much more important than design or looks, it’s how people would look at you weird if you said Superman wasn’t an alien because he looks like a human or how Sonic isn’t a hedgehog because he looks nothing like one. When you consider context Gardevoir isn’t a humanoid woman, or an elf, or whatever you want to call it. It’s a Pokémon which means it’s a fictional beast.
