>>50671424Marketability is the name of the game now son. Pokemon need to be more cute and rounded with less sharp edges. Makes getting plushies out quicker and easier.
You see when pokemon was first created they had no idea how popular it would become. In fact, some members of Game Freak expected it to flop overseas. There wasn't the pressure to appeal to every man, woman and child under the sun. (Hell you couldn't even BE a woman in the first games)
