How come Sugimori's random throwaway fakemons look more like real Pokemon than fanmade fakemons that try their hardest to pass as real Pokemon?
A) They're not "random throwawayt fakemons" they were intended to be new canon pokémon but could never justify their existence as a concept (though the turtle seems to have been reworked into tirtouga).B) Because they were designed adhering to the standardised ruleset Tajiri had enacted to ensure all designs shared a similar style, thus resulting in they actually looking like pokémon.
Because those are all real pokemon.
>>59066173>They're not "random throwawayt fakemons" they were intended to be new canon pokémonThey literally only exist for a magazine cover
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>>59066156Someone's gonna say it eventually, might as well be me, that girl is hot!
>>59066741But the middle one is clearly Tyranitar, what was Sugimori smoking?
>>59066826The Spaceworld 97 demo and the 980506 index from the teraleak (a mostly chronological spritebank of every design made for Gen 2 between 1996 and May 1998 before Masuda took over) show none of these fakemons were planned to be Gen 2 mons when they were conceived for the magazine cover in April 1997. The middle one didn't get recycled into Tyranitar until 1999, two years after it was conceived. Sugimori had no idea he'd reuse that design for a real Pokemon when he drew that cover and gave that answer in 1997.
