Why is pikachu so adorable

But when it comes to this film, I find that somewhat okay. There is nothing to be gained from ripping it to shreds critically, especially when I had so much fun watching it at times.

Embrace our Pikachu overlord. Want more stories like this? That being said, the animation for this film was absolute fire.

And it was fantastic. The animation and characterization in the movie is so adorable; there were multiple instances when I just wanted to burst from the cuteness. Pretty much anytime Psyduck was on screen stressing out about something, I just wanted to give him the biggest hug ever.

And when all the Bulbasaurs come to help Tim and Pikachu later on in the movie, just watching them waddle along had me dead, and then resurrected, from the cuteness. The main characters Tim Justice Smith and Lucy Kathryn Newton were snot-nosed kids upon first impression, but thankfully they had some character development. These features serve an important evolutionary purpose by helping the brain recognize helpless infants who need our attention and affection for their survival.

In fact, cute judgments might be fundamental to human perception. Examining magnetic brain activity in subjects presented with infant and adult faces, Kringelbach and his colleagues at Oxford have found that the brain starts recognizing faces as cute or infantile in less than a seventh of a second after the face is presented to subjects.

If cuteness is such an important key, might a locksmith counterfeit a master key? Decades ago, Lorenz and Tinbergen also introduced the concept of a supernormal stimulus: a stimulus far more salient or intense than any occurring in nature.

In a classic experiment, Tinbergen discovered that geese preferred to roll volleyballs towards their nests over real goose eggs. In fact, volleyballs are supernormal stimuli because their big, round, white shape is more egg-like than real goose eggs.

Similarly, our ability to sense sugar in food did not evolve for us to enjoy chocolate milkshakes, but to steer us towards naturally occurring sources of sugar in fruit and other foods. The nucleus accumbens contains neurons that release dopamine, a brain chemical that, among other things, encodes such stimuli. An international team of researchers studied the phenomenon by artificially manipulating the infant schema of baby faces in photographs to create what might be considered supernormal stimuli—faces more or less baby-faced, or cute, than a normal infant might appear.

Pikachu is one of the most adorable creatures in the world, although some fans have made terrifying versions of him, but for the vast majority of us, Pikachu is absolutely adorable. Below you can see the statements of its creator Atsuko Nishida that, after a few attempts, he got Game Freak's "adorability supervisor" and creator of Snorlax , Koji Nishino, to end up giving him the approval in the design of Pikachu.

There is no doubt that this level of demand ended up creating one of the most recognizable faces of video games and anime in general. Pikachu was created by a designer named Atsuko Nishida — but she didn't do it all on her own.