I think it started as an April Fools’ joke, to be honest.  One day, someone at Game Freak went down to the pit where they keep the creature design guys, lined them all up, and said to them, apparently with a straight face,
“Tauros, but with ridiculous hair.  Make it happen.”
When one of them emerged a week later with the stack of designs they were hoping to exchange for bread and water, this thing was in the pile. No-one remembered that it had been a joke because the guy who thought of it had been killed for a trivial offense the day before, so they decided to run with it, the creature design department got a dozen extra tofu bars and Bouffalant made it into the final game.

I may have embellished the details slightly but I’m pretty sure that’s approximately how it happened. Continue reading “Bouffalant” →