The Pokémon series features countless creatures with cute exteriors and deeply disturbing ... Spanning over twenty-five years, Pokemon, known as Pocket Monsters in Japan, is the multimedia ...

Lillipup looks cute in its naturally unevolved state, and continues to look adorable even when it starts to evolve. Trainers can evolve the Pokemon into Herdier, which resembles a tiny Miniature ...

But in the early ’90s, Pokémon was an unknown quantity. Its creators were unsure that the franchise about catching cute, pocket-sized monsters would resonate with an audience outside of Japan.