#sugimori is on record saying Rhydon and Nidoking were explicitly supposed to be kaiju at first
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“Pokémon aren’t supposed to be objects”
“Pokémon shouldn’t look this human it’s weird”
Gang. They are SUPER SENTAI, TOYS, AND KAIJU. They’ve been this since the beginning
#like I don’t know if they sat down and were like ‘yes make this one more human this is what the kids want’#but clearly this was a small project that was super hard to work on and its impetus WAS trying to make kaiju fight each other#sugimori is on record saying Rhydon and Nidoking were explicitly supposed to be kaiju at first#(notable because Rhydon is widely known as the first Pokémon that was designed)#when you start looking at new designs through this lens it’s a lot more fun#like yeah man they were godzilla in a gachapon capsule. it was the 90s in Japan.#redeem my boy Quaquaval his design is a fantastic show of warms/cools control and unmistakable silhouette#and he’s a POWER RANGER#if this was developed a decade or two earlier it might’ve been about Gundams#Pokémon#design theory#character design#kanto#gen 1#pokémon red and blue#I love thinking about this shit I love character design so much
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