Chief director of Pokopia co-development studio Koei Tecmo, Takuto Edagawa, has explained how all of the new designs for the game's Pokemon came directly from the team at Game Freak. Edagawa's team was particularly taken with the ghostly Pikachu design, known officially as Peakychu, and gave it the nickname "unfortunate Pikachu" internally.
In an interview with Famitsu that's been translated by GamesRadar+, Edagawa describes the first time he saw the new Pokemon designs. "Because all of the Pokemon designs were done by people at Game Freak, the first time we saw them we were surprised and thrilled," he says.
