>>7933>Japanese folk talesim sure most of it, esp the fucked up furrybait shit, has some basis in jap folklore. jap folklore is wild stuff.
tons of weird/questionable design choices in the first few games were entirely that.
lik why was misdraevus only catchable in the postgame?
oh cuz mt silver is literally mt fuji and that forest at the foot of it is the suicide forest. hence the ghostly severed head mon
the whole unown thang was all based off of that one weird barrow thats in southern japan with ancient drawings and no one knows who made them
etc