tbh im kinda glad that a lot of the realistic pokemon in the detective pikachu trailer are high key teetering on the edge of uncanny valley because like.. these are fantasy creatures that sort of talk and shoot fucking electricity and vines and fire and psychic energy out their eyeballs, they SHOULD look weird and alien. psyduck is a pokemon defined by the fact that it is experiencing an unending headache that motherfucker better look like he has seen the rise and fall of civilization itself. mr mime is literally like three brain cells away from being straight up human the sight of one should make me uncomfortable.
basically what im saying is we have been spoon-fed woobified anime pokemon for too long. put the monster back in pocket monsters.
The problem isn’t how bizarre and monstrous they look. The problem is that they keep fucking giving them human fucking eyes instead of animal eyes.
You look at this fucking asshole with his weird buggy human grandpa eyes and you tell me there is a fucking god.
Now compare to this instead, for example:
Is it offputting? Sure. Is it monstrous? Yep. But is it weirdly fucking human? Thankfully no, not anymore.
yknow I’m excited for Detective Pikachu, it looks fun and the filmmakers obviously like Pokémon. But some people act like it’s a sin to dislike the character design
like… it’s literally the exact same approach as the smurfs movie took to designing cartoon characters irl except it’s pokemon instead of smurfs lmao
and I can’t blame them either, it’s hard to make Pokémon look like they could Plausibly Exist On Earth without removing all the personality or just making the Pokémon equivalent of space jam but some act like you’re just a Nostalgia Blind Fool who Hates Fun and Whimsy for criticizing how it looks goddamn
Procrastination Station 