Edit to fix up a URL and I guess put in a TLDR; of didn't mean to rambly ramble, its all just "yeah but I don't get it and think its ugly".
I mean it's counterpart in Ho-Oh is a bird, it is
closely related to a bunch of birds apparently. I mean... isn't it supposed to be a bird thing?
If it isn't a bird and it is a dinosaur thingo I would also kinda like it to look like a flying dinosaur and not have gigantic ridiculous hands?
Fuck I would take a giant flying Manta Ray or Plesiosaur (Henceforth referred to as a Pleasureosaur) with oversized flippers that act as wings or something. There is tons of things involving the Ocean that look similar to flying things with the overlap of fluid dynamics and aerodynamics and none of those have enormous freaky hands.
Even if I go okay it isn't supposed to be a bird, it still looks like a fucking mess to me? If it is supposed to look like a dinosaur, it mixes a bunch of types of dinosaur that don't make a great deal of sense to me.
Lets be generous and go with the neck is a Pleasureosaur, the spines and tail are solidly in your Stegosaurus or similar space (so a land based herbivore), like unless it is supposed to be quoting a
Spinosaurus(?) but those have a membrane between the spines to make that distinct dorsal . And then we still have the tail bits?
I am really struggling to find a bipedal dinosaur that has knees that bend that way as well, unless like it walks on the tips of those feet instead of with them flat on the ground (unless it doesn't ever walk and they are just like... steering for under the water? In which case it seems terribly inefficient to have them on such bulky legs).
Like... If it isn't quoting a bird and is purely quoting dinosaurs I don't get what it is riffing on. (Bulbapedia quotes Pleisureosaur and Stego as well, but I came to that distinction separate from it).
If it isn't quoting
anything and just is its own thing then it is a thing I find baffling and not particularly visually appealing. It doesn't score bonus points with me for being minimalist just because it uses 3 colours. Everything in dark blue on it juts out all over the place and makes it visually noisy and it doesn't interact at all with the paler blue that should be complementing them.
I mean you could strip them out and it would look a lot sleaker, but it would be missing something to tie it together, you would want it to be about at the shoulders. For some reason they decided that should be giant fuck off freaky hands.
