>>57410318They knew exactly what they were doing, the problem is you being too young to understand what they were aiming for until you grew up, by which stage you attributed it to "freaks" on the internet and not the fact Pokémon has taken over from Disney as being "baby's first furry experience". From the full-blown fursuitnigs obsessed with PMD to the general furfuckers who slap tits on anything bipedal and a few of the quadrupeds or have taste and post on-model erotica and all hand-tooled by Game Freak, the premise being one where you travel with these creatures allowing kids' imaginations to fill in the experience, which works wonders when they age up and discover reproduction and get interested in the opposite sex.