>>47966862>>47966869The reasons Lucario is a fighting type, a steel type, not a psychic type, and themed after something the localization calls "aura" are all inter-connected and can be hard to understand due to cultural barriers. Unfortunately a lot of western fans are too full of themselves, refusing to seek out answers and instead just complaining. Combine with the fact that Lucario is popular and a mascot, with people thinking they are cool for hating it, and you get a very annoying bunch.
"Aura" in japanese is called "wave", the adventures manga goes as far as comparing it with sound. In the Lucario movie (wich introduced the pokemon) the character Arlon, who is designed after Lucario, carries a staff inspired by the khakkhara, a wood & metal staff that buddhist monks carry and use to generate sound to scare off spirits. Lucario itself is based on the archtypical "fighting monk", much like Goku and Kenshiro. Another pokemon based on a budhist monk, who is designed after the khakkhara, and who is also themed after aura/waves is Kommo-o. Medicham is even more directly based on a buddhist monk and the gen 4 pokedex entries state it can perceive auras too.
"Mind" and "life" aren't being treated as interchangeable here, the former is Psychic type, the later is Fighting type. Lucario can understand people by feeling their life energy as waves, and is a steel type because the khakkhara are made of metal to generate waves.
But a lot of people are content with just deciding it's based on Anubis and making shit up about some alleged "egyptian kickboxing" that doesn't exist nor has Lucario ever been portrayed as a kickboxer. And then they complain because it doesn't look "enough" like Anubis or a kickboxer.
