>>54712879No, Manectric only borrows the name in its western version, it is entirely based on a description of a raiju, its blue wolf version to be specific.
And as for whether they are related, you are right, they are neither wolves nor foxes, it is their own genus more related to pseudofoxes and even a type of extinct island canid, but it is also the franchise where a fish changes into an octopus, a hedgehog into a gliptodon, a shrew/echidna to honey badger, a chameleon into a basilisk or a donkey turns into a horse. (My favorite is the pear that turns into a dinosaur)
