Pokémon designer Atsuko Nishida has revealed that his origina꧃l design for Pikachu was not inspired by a mouse, but a sweet Japanᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚese snack.
Pokémon has become a worldwide franchise unlike any other. More than 20 years after it first burst onto the scene, Pokémon is stℱronger than ever and has grossed more than $95 billion over the course of the past two a♑nd a half decades. During that time, the roster of Pokémon trainers have been tasked with catching has grown from the original 151 to more than 900 today.
It takes a team of pretty creative minds to come up with designs for more than 90🔥0 different creatures. Some of those designs have been pretty lazy, to be fair. Trubbish, a Pokémon whose design was inspired by a bag of trash, tops the laziness charts. Lazy or not, a lot of the Pokémon created over the course of the franchise's history have clear inspirations and origins.
Pikachu, for example. The most famous Pokémon of all was clearly inspired by the humble mouse. However, Pokémon designer Atsuko Nishida recently revealed that they originally intended Pikachu to look very different from the one we know and love. "The first prototype I designed for Pikachu was a daifuku-like creature in the shape of a long daifuku with ears sticking out," Nishida told Yomiuri Newspaper (via ).
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For those unfamiliar with daifuku, it is a sweet Japanese snack that comes in various different colors, as can be seen in the t🌄weet above. This begs the question, would there have been various forms of this original 🌸Pikachu, or would the iconic Pokémon have had the ability to change color? More importantly, how about letting us take a look at what Pikachu was originally supposed to look like?
Unfortunately, that can't happen. Nishida didn't draw daifuku Pikachu on paper and kept no record of the design whatsoever. We're assuming so much time has passed that he also can't draw it from memory, although it would have been cool if he had at least given it a try. Should Nishida change his mind and recreate that original sweet snack Pikachu, how cool would it be to see it pop up in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon GO for a special event?
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