>>56393261And I say you've watched too much merkin cartoons where they normalised shit like talking dogs, land-roaming sharks and other incidentals, because frankly, doesn't matter how "cereal mascot" you think it looks like, even a cereal mascot would look monstrous as fuck in real life.
But really it comes down to you growing up and the series not actually slavishly copying itself to your generation's tastes, but rather adapting to what interests pre-teen kids again (because in case you missed it, Gen 1 and 2 had a whole aesthetic they wrote out of the premise by Gen 3. to better sell it to kids of the era).
