>>52198841The reason is to make a point by pointing wider trends. People here are accusing designs of being "furbait" or whatever which is strongly tied to sexualization. The point I'm trying to make is that in the sexual sphere it doesn't really matter as much by pointing out that Charizard still remains the most sexualized starter to date, both in raw numbers and growth. You can't control what people are going to sexualize and by trying to reduce these designs to only sexualization you're missing other wider trends like general popularity among the *huge* Pokémon fanbase, what Pokémon conceptualizes and the designs themselves.
The problem is listening to the *loud* minority who complains about Pokémon designs being bipedal, which still only make up a portion of the overall inspiration for designs. Google Pokémon of the day poll is perfect because it was voted by region by and had many people voting on it. This poll wasn't a twitter poll where it counted each vote per tweet and required a Google account. What does it show? Gardevoir, Blaziken, Lucario, Greninja, Zoroark, toxtricity were among the most popular designs for their gen which shows there's clear interest in them. Of course there's some that aren't very well liked like Jynx, Mr. Mime, Sawk and Throh, the Goth line, but overall there's no reason to stop and appease to a loud minority.
