Fresh light has been shone on an interview that claims Nintendo of America once suggested Pokémon's beloved mascot Pikachu should look like "a kind of a tabby cat with huge breasts."

— IGN ( )

- For years, there’ve been rumors that when Pokémon was going to be localized for the West, Nintendo USA suggested that Pikachu have boobs. When someone posted this on reddit’s TIL sub, users pointed out that the word in question, mune , can mean breasts or pecs.

- Japanese site Game*Spark dug up an interview of Pokémon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara from the Gold and Silver era 25 years ago that seems to confirm they were in fact boobs: “I won’t show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live, but they kind of looked like the characters from the Cats musical. So, for example, Pikachu was c

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