>>57534230I'm surprised kids even still like Pokémon. The nu-designs on the left look so retarded. I remember having a guidebook with all of Sugimori's original artwork, and thinking they were so cool. The illustrations really brought the game sprites to life in your imagination.
>>57534427Yeah because back then Pokémon were more obviously paying tribute to things like mythological Japanese yokai and shape-shifting animals that were said to seduce and play tricks on humans. The retarded westoid fanbase freaked out about the leaked Typhlosion myth, because they think Pokemon are just supposed to be cute talking Disney animals from Japan rather than fairy tale monsters. Keep in mind that the Pokémon franchise from the very beginning always had sexy characters like Misty and Jessie who were obviously supposed to be eye candy, since Japan didn't have a stick up their ass about that sort of thing.
>>57540247The difference is that Japanese people don't treat their kids like sheltered idiots, whereas the USA tried to sanitize everything after 9/11 to protect the chilluns from muh trauma. Certain reruns of the Pokémon anime itself were censored in the USA for years after 9/11. Prior to the 2000's, basically anything was considered more or less ok for kids as long as there was no explicit sex, hard drugs, or gore. After 9/11, everything potentially considered "adult" (guns, tobacco, alcohol, marriage, death, etc.) started getting more heavily censored from kiddie media here (hence all the criticism of 4kids that was actually due to broadcast television execs cracking down on mature content). I think this has a lot to do with why zoomers born after 2001 are so sanctimonious, and have this weird disconnect where they think absolutely nothing risqué or titillating should be shown in mainstream entertainment. They think sex is something shameful that should be confined to porn rather than simply part of the human experience.
