konkeydongcountry:

highlights from this interview with junichi masuda and shigeru ohmori:

• no, yungoos and gumshoos were not intentionally based on donald trump
• yes, they admit that the resemblance is uncanny, “especially the hair”
• as everyone suspected, the “alolan forms only existing for gen 1 pokemon” thing is largely a nostalgia-grab
• game freak doesn’t give two shits about the 3DS’s 3D mode
• no mega evolutions until the post-game, but mega evolutions can still use Z-moves
• alola will not have “too much water”
• during development, crabrawler was just referred to as “Crab 1″
• the whole “pokemon saying their own names” thing in the anime was largely done so audiences would have an easier time remembering the names of all the different pokemon
• “Maybe in that universe the Pokémon starting saying their names first and then humans went, ‘Oh, okay. That must be your name.’“