Inspired with some feature similar to the original works != plagiarism. I swear a shit tons of people just don’t understand what’s the nature of plagiarism is at all before sprouting nonsense like this.
And no, that grin on a cat face isn’t original to Pokemon, Cat Bus from My Neighbour Totoro has it.
Exactly, grin on cat is nothing original at this point, it’s as aesthetic as Picasso.
Are we looking at the same picture? It’s not that it’s a grin on the cat, it’s that it looks nearly 1-1 traced from Pokemon
They know the difference. But some people just feel compelled to defend Nintendo no matter what.