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Happy Earthday! According to an interview with Shigeru Ohmori in the Pokemon Sun and Moon Official Pokedex and Post Adventure Guide, the Ultra Beasts are based on the concept of Invasive Species.
Happy Easter! Here's a little bunny fact! Buneary is the only Pokemon to have a base friendship of 0 that isn't a legendary/mythical Pokemon or Ultra Beast! It is also the only Pokemon to learn Frustraion w/ level up, Lopunny is the same with learning Return at the same level!
Happy 30th anniversary to the GameBoy! The idea of Pokémon was conceptualized by Satoshi Tajiri from his childhood of bug catching, the idea of trading Pokémon between games came from watching two kids play with the GameBoy Link Cable imagining two bugs crawling between them.
Striaton Gym Leaders and TCG art.
Articuno (Tagteam)
Greninja (Night Unison)
Murkrow (Secret Wonders)
In Pokémon Red and Blue, Ivysaur's Pokédex entery states that when it's bulb grows too large, it looses the ability to stand on it's hind legs. Ivysaur's Sprite in the same game has it standing on it's legs contradicting the previous statement.
This is Yusuke Ohmura! He was designing Pokemon since Diamond and Pearl and became the lead Pokemon Designer in Sun and Moon. He left GameFreak in 2016 to be a freelance artist. Heres Some of his work on the Popplio line as well as the Gen 5 rivals!
Reference Sheet of Snorunt drawn by Ken Sugimori created for the Advance Generation series of the Pokemon anime. Although one may be able to see under it in existing models and artwork, this is the first time a Snorunt has been shown without it's "hat" showing it is a ball.
TOKIYA also designed the Male/Female Ace Trainers and Swimmers for Pokemon Sun and Moon!
Link to their personal website: https://t.co/p3FUq59qos
Twitter is obviously in the above tweet.
Clefairy was originally intended to be the mascot of Pokemon. Pikachu was chosen instead due to anime popularity. Ash was originally given a Clefairy, not a Pikachu, with a role change for plot last minute. This would have based Ash off Red from the Pokemon Pocket Monsters manga.
According to Junichi Masuda, a Pokemon was always planned to be introduced through Pokemon GO since it's early stages. When Let's Go came around, Meltan was introduced. It was created by Game Freak not Niantic. It's also implied to have been designed to look like a Gen 1 Pokemon.