Translations:Prerelease:Pokémon Gold and Silver/11/en

Bellossom

Bellossom's Gold and Silver artwork, which was made before the final release of the games, show that it was originally planned to have dark blue skin similar to one of its evolutionary relatives. Given how the earlier version of Bellossom found in the Space World '97 proto even shares this trait, this seems to prove that this was the original intent before it was ultimately changed. While preceding the controversy regarding Jynx's skin color, the design team possibly decided to change Bellossom's in fear it'd be seen as questionable given its Polynesian influences, though this color change could have also been made because the design team wasn't satisfied with how it looked.