>>12407649
toads do not have teeth or claws.
that is not a toad.

its a fackin plant

>>12407649
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA PEOPLE ARE PAYING 20 BUCKS FOR THIS SLOP

>>12407649
dinosaurs do not have flowers or leaves
this is not a dinosaur

>>12407649
Venusaurs japanese name is フシギバナ which means strange flower. Dont get too hung up on english localizations which are in the same tier as fanfiction.

Venusapo

>>>/vp/
Fuck off.

12407817
seethe

>>12407649
Made up localization means nothing. If you wanna complain bitch about Persian(japanese name) clearly not being a persian cat

>>12407649
Nothing about Venusaur implies it's a toad, and -saur refers to reptiles, though commonly used for dinosaurs it's not restricted to them.

I never made the connection with dinosaurs even with "saur" in the name
I never thought of it as a frog at all
I thought it was a turtle for a while even though it didn't make sense, because of squirtle
I never knew what to make of that thing

>>12407910
Sugimori has referred to bulbasaur as a frog. He describes the idea was to make the starters small animals a japanese kid would be familiar picking up: lizards, turtles and frogs

"-saur" was made up by the english localizers, the japanese names of the line mean "strange seed", "strange plant" and "strange flower" respectively

>>12407973
Show me a hopping bulbasaur.

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>>12408196
get him a body bag!

>>12408196
oh shit

>>12407786
Not the first post but still the best post

>>12408196
I needed that laugh.

>>12407649
you don't even know what a dinosaur looks like, none of us do

>>12408242
Dinosaur does not sit squat to the ground

In French the name of the line is literally
>Weirdbulb
>Weirdherb
>Weirdflower

>>12408196
Look how happy he is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0g3FIKIiec

>>12407649
The g1 starters were based on boys most loved small pets/things to catch outside

Lizard
Turtle
Toad/frog

Obviously because they are monsters, they beefed them with saurian, draconic etc features

>>12409261
I always found it weird how they actually bother to translate pokemon names like that across different languages. It just seems like it would really muddle the branding, like there are people out there who think Charizard is called Dracaufeu and Nintendo is just okay with that? I'd figure they try to keep the names the same between similar languages at least.

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>>12409636
there are people out there who think Lizardon is called Charizard lmao

>>12408196
Whoah, look at him go!

>>12409636
In france Spider-Man is called "The Silker", it's nothing new

>>12408063
It does hop in the let's go games if that counts.

>>12407649
>>12407786
>>12407973
>meh toad
Does he and game freak know they actually are?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareiasauria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diictodon

>>12409293
This looks so weird to me because I remember it stomping in the anime or just standing there while charging solar beam

I like Lucario!

>>12409712
You don't need to go non-retro for this, they hop around to chase apples in Snap.

>>12407649
Yes

>>12407958
You see, pokemon used to be just "monsters".

>>12407649
It's an unspecified fantastic creature with flower growing on it's back.
Funfact - the entire "it's a frog/toad" thing was canonized in LGPE where they needed to figure out a way for Venusaur to move as fast as player's character.

>>12407649
No.

>>12412637
Funfact - Pokemon is shit.

>>12409636
Look up the localization process of Red/Blue on Cutting Room Floor someday. You'll see a bunch names they were looking for was to evoke the Japanese name, or they might be rejected because they couldn't pass legal. For instance, Dugtrio they wanted to keep the Japanese name Digda, but felt it was too similar sounding to Dig-Dug and could get them into trouble.

>>12412671
Dugtrio is dugtrio in japan. It's diglett which is digda

>>12412679
Right, sorry. My mistake.

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>>12412375
>pokemon used to be just "monsters"
A good portion of the original Pokedex was just "animals but cooler"

>>12412706
A lot of Gen I Pokemon were based on common tropes in fantasy rpgs. Hell, there's a power plant that plays it pretty straight and is full of electric rats, mimics, beholders, ogres and a literal thunderbird at the end of it.

>>12409647
nobody would have respected him with such a name.

>>12412810
>alternate universe
>We kept "Lizardon" as the name because it's a lizard and people think of "the don" like a mafia boss, so they know it's in charge

>>12412835
>lizard on
>apply directly to the forehead

>>12409647
Came here to say this but

>Liz hard on

The jokes would write themselves. Poor girls in school called Elisabeth....

>el lizardone

Why pokemon fans accept the butchered translations and localization for their games?

>>12407671
All amphibians have teeth

>>12413467
Can you ask that again but with english as your first language?

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>>12413980
Bases

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>>12408063
Reptile-like Mammal can hopped?

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>>12407671

>>12415538
The owl was designed to derive its appeal from looking like a tit with erect nipple

Bulbous sore also hops in PMD which is pretty cute

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>>12415538
Wonder extinct animal that birds grass starter base off?

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>>12416596
These new starters are hilarious. The first one looks simply generic as shit, like some food mascot more than a Pokemon even. And the second and third literally look like things mashed up from Littlest Pet Shop/My Little Pony/Neopets

>>12415571
The owl (Hawaii giant owl) one from sun and moon, this new Pokemon look different.

>>12417176
This is an owl too, its name is (Haburou) comes from fukurou, owl

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>>12407786
My favorite japanese pokemon name anecdote is when I was a kid I always called magmar "boobie" because he had a pair of tits on his head. Flash forward 20 years to when I first played pokemon in japanese and learned that magmars japanese name was booba this whole time. Kid me always knew.

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>>12417191
Are you sure?

>>12417405
Why the fuck would a gecko be water? The two things geckos are most associated with are trees, so grass. Being nocturnal, so dark. Hell, some are terrestrial so ground, some are rock dwelling so rock. I could even see fire based on some having a "fire personality" but I have no idea what the idea is to make a gecko Pokemon and go to water

>>12407786
It means more like "mysterious flower" rather than "strange flower"

>>12417441
Why would a lizard be fire? Have you ever heard of a fire breathing lizard in the nature? Preposterous!

>>12417525
Because as stupid as it is, Japan doesn't differentiate between lizards and salamanders and salamanders are fire spirits to them despite being water creatures. And even offer it works out from a Western perspective because as a lizard it's presented as essentially a baby dragon, who eventually becomes a dragon, and western dragons like Charizard is based on are always associated with fire

>>12417547
Japanese salamanders are awesome.

>>12417547
Man I was disappointed to learn that salamanders aren't actually fireproof. I swear I saw it as a kid in some documentary stuff like Animal Planet being presented as absolute fact and believed it all my life

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>>12417547
>salamanders are fire spirits to them despite being water creatures
That was common in pretty much every culture.

>>12415538
>>12416596
>Not a sheep, a horse or an ox for the fire starter.
It's over.
Game Freak has fallen.

>>12417915
>year of the horse
How could GF designers fuck up?

>>12417441
>Why the fuck would a gecko be water?
Because leopard geckos' tails are full of water, moron.

>>12417931
And a year of fire, no less.

>>12418007
>Because leopard geckos' tails are full of water, moron
Leopard geckos are also only found in arid dessert environments in the middle east and are purely terrestrial lacking adhesive toepads so literally fire or ground makes more sense than water

>>12417875
Are they retarded

>>12415538
i know we've been shitting on the newest designs since at least gen 3, but those things on the bottom do not look like pokemon to me. like they were copy and pasted from palworld

>>12418920
People were saying Palworld was copy and pasting pokemon, so that means they look like pokemon.

>>12418920
Gecko looks good, I like the tear lashes

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>>12418949
SMT and that snes games predates Pokemon

>>12407649
Big back

>>12409604
it's a shame this is the only gen with such underlying theming

>>12412679
diglett is dig-lette/let without the e / with another t

>>12412810
Japanese Origins Red made it sound cool enough
XYZ Alain too

>>12415538
>>12418920
basically fakemons but official

>>12416596
squirtle is the only kanto starter that doesn't have its element incorporated into its design
no wonder it looks the blandest; it's just a cartoon turtle

>>12418914
you asking this indicates you don't actually know the details of the lore

>>12417479
"Unfathomable flower" is probably the closest English equivalent. Fushigi literally means "can't be understood". It can be used in Japanese either as a poetic way to say something's mysterious beyond human understanding, or just something so bizarre it defies comprehension.

>>12421534
Its tail is a tidal wave.

>>12408196
thriving

>>12415538
What went wrong?

Stop bumping from 10

>>12412786
Why fix what isn't broken?