You’ve said before that you’re an archaeology student, so I’m assuming that you enjoy the subject (otherwise you’d be insane for studying a subject you don’t like) so would you be interested in seeing more pokemon such as Lucario, who seems to be ancient Egyptian based, or other such pokemon that are based on ancient greek, mayan or egyptian mythology, seeing as it is largely japanese mythology that makes it into the games (ie. Yamata No Orochi being Hydreigon’s inspiration)

If there’s one thing I want more of, it’s myth- and folklore-inspired Pokémon.  They are The Best Ones.  I don’t even care whether we’re talking about Japanese stuff, or wider Asian stuff, or anywhere else.  I think one of the designers has said that there have been no Pokémon so far who are based on Greco-Roman mythology, which is the particular cultural milieu I’m interested in (though there are definitely some who are based on ideas that have Greco-Roman counterparts).  I would like to see some of that.  Again, though, it’s all good.  Myths and folktales last for a reason; they express powerful, evocative ideas.  Designs based on them have a certain inexpressible dignity… or, so I feel.

(Incidentally: at my university there is a long-standing rivalry between the Egyptian historians and the Greco-Roman historians, but I must still concede that Lucario is beyond epic)

So, in a word: Yes.

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