Because they totally don't. If they're real honest-to-goodness GHOSTS, as in the spectral remains of dead people, as some of the Pokedex entries claim, then I'd say there are some ethical issues about catching them in Pokeballs. But then how can they breed and make eggs? I'm pretty sure the first rule of being dead is that you can't make any more babies.
then some of them like Banette are said to be demonic entities borne out of some supernatural grudge. Which means that those moms were right and Pokemon is about raising demons. But then shouldn't they be Demon type? and what do each of these have to do about evolving?
I mean, according to the dex, Yamask remembers its former life, and carries around a mask representative of its human face. and then you just go and enslave it. I dunno, it seems wrong. Especially since it'll evolve into Cofagrigus, who has an entirely different origin story. In the end, I choose to mostly ignore the pokedex, since it seems to have been written by the same guy who does Toriko, exaggerating everything and in most cases just making shit up.
uh, as for Yamask itself, it's pretty neat. Black, red and gold makes a striking color combination. It also really doesn't look like anything specific, which works for a Ghost-type.
Overall: 6/10
Think about it this way, cofagrigus have no other origin stated in the pokedex. The evolution of a yamask is like the the evolution of a magical girl into a witch in Madoka Magica except instead of grief, it's the rush of battle that corrupts the soul into a demon. There is also another explanation for wild cofagrigus as well. The only other pokemon in the same habitat as yamask is the dark type sandile. The only thing that a yamask's basic attacks can damage is another yamask. The wild cofagriguses are just human souls that killed other human souls and the wild krokoroks are sandiles that ate souls. Cofagrigus live near the bottom of relic castle in order to eat gold and breed more souls into the world that now don't have any memory of a human life. Also, don't those masks sort of remind anybody else of soul gems?
ReplyDeleteyeah, some of the pokedex entries are just flat out disturbing, especially for the ghost type.
ReplyDeleteSome entries like the one of Jellicent just flat out admit that this thing is killing people.