>animals retconned as non-canon>real-life locations retconned as non-canon>real-life food reinforced as canonWhy?
>>59208962Mystery Dungeon has apples
>>59208962Animals weren't retconned. Oysters appear in SV.
>>59208970Those are baby Shellder.
>>59208962The crazy thing is that you can tell Applin was kinda meant to look Leppa Berry-like before they said "fuck it" and just made apples canon anyways>>59208970Those look more like mussels.
>>59208962Yeah, I don't understand why evidence can contradict my clearly correct theories.
>>59208962Probably because they wanted a familiar taste and berries throw a dishes flavor off.Rawst berries are bitter while strawberries are known for their sweet taste.Leppa berries are primarily spicy since it other flavors subtract from each other.Nanab berries have an astringent taste and it's implied it can only be eaten whole.Pinap berries aren't sweet at all.Tamato berries are known for their spicy flavor while tomatos are more savory.Wiki berries are astringent.
>>59208962Berris being anagrams is so cool
>>59210834I never realized that. Thanks anon.
Real life food never stopped appearing the anime. Ash and Treecko used watermelons to teach Treecko Bullet Seed.
>>59209716Yeah, replacing real fruit with berries doesn't really work because they're not meant to taste the same. The tamato berry is more akin to a hot pepper than a tomato.Which is probably a sign they were never meant to be replacements in the first place. Tropius doesn't have nanab berries growing on its chin.
>>59208962The first two changes were purely a result of the shift away from Tajiri Canon in the games and Shudo leading the anime to Masuda Canon in the games and the De-Japanization of the anime
After a certain point, it really doesn't make sense for regular animals to exist alongside Pokemon.
>>59208986What the fuck Anon, I never noticed that. That's a crazy observation and you're probably 100% right.
>>59208986The apple on Hydrapple's horn also looks like a Leppa berry
>>59208962Real-life locations retconned as non-canon was so retarded. What's the point if you're going to stipp have not-Spain, not-France, and not-New York?
>>59210930So that they can be fictional places that are only loosely based on the real life versions
>>59210930Masuda wanted a solar punk fantasy world instead of a critique of 90s Japan that Tajiri wanted
>>59210945Kanto was loosely based on Kanto, and it didn't need a fictionalized name.
>>59210954Tajiri was fine with that, Masuda wasn't.You can see the transition start in Gen 2, compare Tajiri's 1997 space world vision of Gen 2 to the final version after Masuda had significant input. Then Gen 3 he fully took over
>>59208986>>59210922We could have had Leppa Berry variants (reflecting the Tart, Sweet and Syrupy Apple), but no, just introduce three new items whose only purpose it is to evolve the same pokemon in three different ways.
>>59210946What were the critiques other than all plants and animals being poisoned by pollution?
>>59208962Early-instalment weirdness gotta go.
>plants are canon>fruit comes from plants>fruits are canonunless they decide to retcon every plant into being a pokemon then keeping fruit around makes sense
>>59208962Too hard to understand, they dont evoke the same emotions/associations as real fruit.
>>59210834Not always anagrams. Sometimes shortenings.Chilan is Chinese Lantern.Spelon is Spiked Melon.Aspear is Asian Pear.Razz is Raspberry.Kelpsy is Sea KelpPassho is Passion FruitStarf is StarfruitWacan is Wax-candle Fruit.
>>59208962They try to be vague on whether humans can safely eat Pokemon berries
>>59209716>>59210868this just adds to the fact that gf shouldn't autistically shove food into their monster-catching game as-is. Most people never even interact with it, it's retarded.
>>59212885or just being you know, fantasy plants?
>>59208962And yet this shit series has it's characters using real language loanwords in dialogue (all the Spanish in Paldea)
>>59208962At least they didn't remove berries. They just exist alongside real fruit.
>>59212939It's not THAT vague. You use them in the SWSH curries. So humans CAN eat them safely, which we also see a few times in the anime, typically as an ingredient in cakes or ice cream etc.From the anime, it's more that just like, they're pretty crunchy even things you'd expect to be very soft given their normal counterpart like tamato, and the flavors are quite strong for the human palette, which is why it ends up used in small pieces or just juice thinned out by a lot of filler substance like bread or ice and milk, or used specifically for their intense flavor in curry, a notably strongly spiced dish.It'd be like eating a yuzu or a habanero, but it has the size and texture of a raw russet potato. Nah, you cook that shit til it's soft and use like maybe one to strongly flavor an entire multi-serving dish.
>>59213183And all the French in KalosZ-A even has Mable explicitly say that the "Gris" in Grisham is French for gray
>>59212885>>59213209Pokopia expressly has both normal human food domesticated plants (basedbean, potato, tomato, wheat) and also pokemon berry trees.PLA had grains, pokeberries, and apricorns side by side.They're definitely both still canon.
>>59213254that sounds awesome
>>59213255Don't forget the German-speaking NPC in BW.
>>59212781Towns replacing all the fields and forests, it's brought up in the Manga a lot
>>59213209What would that taste like?
>>59208962It's food so who gives a shit
>>59210910Meat farm animals. Their meat tastes better than pokemon meat
>>59215075>It tastes incredibly bitter to humans, but there's no end to the children who buy it, fooled by its appetizing look.
