Like with that gender-bending Street Fighter fan art and maybe-creepy Roll artwork we recently posted, I have a feeling that this Pokemon fan-art is going to draw some polarizing opinions. It's undeniable that it took a lot of time and creative energy to think of 493 anthropomorphic equivalents to match each and every Generation 1-4 Pokemon, and a lot of them are pretty brilliant. I tried to put the best of the best of them in the image above, but I didn't even come close. Slowbro is particularly amazing.
The question of good taste comes into question when considering exactly how these Poke-people are depicted. For starters, other than a few of the male-specific Pokemon (like Nidorino), all of the Pokemon here have been turned into females. That's already a little suspect. Add the fact that all these women all range somewhere between adorable, to badass, to sex worker, and you'll see why I'm guessing why some will find this art to be in bad taste.
To me, it makes perfect sense to equate a Pokemon's various stages of evolution to the stages of puberty. I also get why so many of these Poke-girls are cute and/or badass, because those are the two adjectives that describe the Pokemon series at its best. I just question the occasional use of enormous, half-naked boobs and sexually suggestive postures. It feels cheap. It takes real brilliance to come up with a great character design, while any second rate hack can throw a huge rack on a Pokemon and call it a day.
Besides, this is the internet. It's got enough boobs as it is, don't you think?
493 Pokemons Drawn As Anime Girls [Geekologie]
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2:00 PM on 01.30.2011 | 
I agree with you, Holmes, it really does feel cheap. :(
And there are indeed some pretty kick ass ones to be found. The Legendary Birds never disappoint.
so anyways, this art is meh at best. there's a few cute ones and a whole lot more that i don't really care for. Better artist from around the world have done much better jobs tackling this subject
actually i dont understand why people are "fans" of anything to be honest.
music/movies/consoles whatever it may be.
Maybe I can't tell the difference between guys and girls anymore. Could you point out which one's I missed?
(on subject) I saw a Dynasty Warriors gender bender art before, art was nice but still creepy to see tough men turned into anime girls.
Also, this is a lot older than you might think, I saw this on Danbooru in 2009-odd. But, then again, would you want to go there?
Videogame journalism! Serious Business!
It did take a while for me to count all the male Pokemon in the fan art though, but clearly I did that too quickly too, because I totally counted wrong the first time.
@ kid23455- Not to be combative, but when did I ever say this was new or original?
No. NEEDZ MOAR BOOBIES!
Okay,that's a slight exaggeration,but the sheer amount of overlap when it comes to Pokemon fan art,'furotica' and homoerotica is pretty staggering if you somehow didn't see it as an inevitability with a franchise whose name sounds like Poke A Man.
Or Magnets...that's how they work.
Anything? You must be a hit at parties.
@Metaguy
It's true. I do like my sex consensual. I could probably be more open minded about that idea but it's just become such a tough habit to break.
But that argument has nothing really to do with the link featured here.
Hard.
That said, I have already played the Moémon Pokémon hack.