Pokemon Sun/moon Starter evolutions revealed

[Lonely_Dolphin]

Ka-pi96 said:

Einsam_Delphin said:
There was already proof for that final evolutions leak, so I had accepted it as truth and thus am not surprised by Popplio's evolution. I am surprised though that some think the femininity is a negative considering we just had the Fennekin-line. Didn't top the Ninja, as how can you beat a Ninja, but is far more popular than the Chespin-line. In general there is nothing wrong with males using female characters (and vice versa). I'd think Nintendo gamer's especially should know this.

Just because it`s been done once before (and not as bad even) doesn`t mean it`s ok to do it again. Especially when you consider that Pokemon is a franchise with a history of having actual gender differences. It used to actually make males/females look different rather than just making a design for one gender and then saying `oh hey rather than desigining another version let`s just use that for both genders`. In the first gen they even made a Pokemon have two different species, one for male and one for female (even though there wasn`t that much difference) rather than just using a masculine/feminine design for both genders.

It was done before to great success, that's all the reason you need really. That history stuff is pretty arbitrary, Gamefreak isn't afraid to break tradition and breaking tradion is not inherently a bad thing. Though really in this case they're not. We've always had Pokemon that look more like one gender despite able to be either one. Machamp and Jynx come to mind, so there's really nothing new here.