You know what? I can’t even be happy about it.

If you look at the trailer, the lightest skin tones are again shown as default, used as promos and I bet you the anime is gonna pick the light one too. (But if they don’t, I assure you no ship tease will happen with Ash, for the same reason it did not happen with Iris.)



Back in Hoenn, Elite Four member Phoebe was threated as this exotic other, the only dark skinned gal of that generation when Gen 3 first came out. She is Hawaiian. But now we go to HER region and suddenly dark skinned people hardly exist cause I guess dark skinned people are like the shinies among humans in Pokemon? They are a minority in regions but when we get to their homeland it’s suddenly invested with light skinned people and AGAIN they are minorities.



Japan just claiming Hawaii for all the goodies but removing its people is such a violent act of erasure, I do not even see why I would be remotely hype over some feature that should’ve been there in the first place, no matter where we are.