>>54522868i always felt pokemon were mostly dumb wild animals you had to "train" to at least fight
the anime influenced them to make them seem more like magical friendship companions
look at that retarded mongoloid in the OG artwork for bulba, thing probably is barely thinking anything. look at fucking venusaur, thing looks like it's about ready to suffer it's daily third stroke
the anime, then future games, made them feel like cutesy fwends, IE the third bulba in your image
