1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Ross (FlamingPandaOMG) (theyurityphoon) http://rainbowdash.net/theyurityphoon http://rainbowdash.net/notice/3112434 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/28324" class="url" title="that guy you hate"><span class="fn nickname">pokestrike</span></a></span> But one of the main heads behind Pokémon literally said that everyone that was on the design team took influence from things they enjoyed IRL, and Jynx's designer was a big fan of a popular blackface children's book series that was bit in Japan and influenced Jynx's design from it. Japan doesn't take offense to it like other places do.