While I greatly appreciate the goal of the book， there are unfortunately a number of shortcomings:Many interesting origin stories aren’t included in the pokemon’s entry for this book。 I’ve briefly thrown together a few below that weren’t addressed properly:-The near certain swap of Butterfree and Venomoth-Gengar being the doppelgänger of Clefable-The author claimed they couldn’t find an insect inspiration for Scyther， but Scyther is very clearly based on a praying mantis-Jynx wasn’t handled well While I greatly appreciate the goal of the book， there are unfortunately a number of shortcomings:Many interesting origin stories aren’t included in the pokemon’s entry for this book。 I’ve briefly thrown together a few below that weren’t addressed properly:-The near certain swap of Butterfree and Venomoth-Gengar being the doppelgänger of Clefable-The author claimed they couldn’t find an insect inspiration for Scyther， but Scyther is very clearly based on a praying mantis-Jynx wasn’t handled well。 It’s original depiction with a truly black face and oversized lips indisputably is based in blackface。 While it may not have as many negative connotations in Japan or other countries outside the US， it has deep， deep roots in racism in the US， and TPC had little choice but to change it for the English games。-Feraligatr and Tyranitar are both Godzilla references， the first the US Godzilla movie from the 90s， the second a traditional Japanese depiction。 -Some missed things with names。 Lapis for Lapras， being one， and calling Yanma a firefly （and not a dragonfly） was also something odd。 There was also the idea that TPC introduced new evolutions and babies in order to get “all species to three forms”…which I have not seen supported anywhere。 In reality they simply wanted to capitalize on popular Pokémon and expand on some that had potential。 Not to mention many 1 and 2 species families were added in gen 2 also。 Generally there were also just too many personal opinions and it was written too casually for something that is presented as a reference book。 It may be a useful collection of origin information so you don’t need bulbapedia， but I think there is room for improvement for both content and grammar/spelling/editing 。。。more