What is the prototype of Pikachu?

Squirrel, as early as the release of 1996 Pokémon, game developers claimed that Pikachu's design was based on a squirrel rather than a mouse. This is also confirmed in the official website information of Pokemon Co, a brand management company that Poké mon joined.

Nishida Dunzi said that in the initial creation, she made an image similar to "Japanese dessert Dafu cake with long ears (also known as sandwich dumplings)". After being told that Pikachu's image needs to be very cute, she designed a new image according to the characteristics of squirrels, because she just wanted to keep a little squirrel as a gift.

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Appearance habit

Pikachu is a short, chubby, round, rodent-like dream with yellow hair all over his body. Its ears are very long and its tips are black. It has a small mouth, looks like the number 3 on the side, and has black eyes.

There are two red circles on its cheek. Its tail is like serrated lightning, and there is a piece of brown fur where it meets its body. Although it is a quadruped, it often walks with two hind feet.

Living in the forest, they usually feed on the fruits of trees. They knocked the fruit off the tree with a small electric shock, so that they didn't have to climb the tree and cooked the fruit by the way.

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