Originally posted by Kikyourt
Oh wow! Mawile does look really cool! I thought Game Freak were having a joke when I saw Mawile. But knowing that Mawile on R/S is a picture of him from the back and seeing the picture of him from teh front makes me wanna go out and catch him!
Gamefreak didn't design any of the pokemon, Satoshi Tajiri comes up with every last one.

Like I said, I loved the idea of the jaws and I actually don't want one as much because it's real face is so normal. I don't know why everyone was so freaked out by mawile...I've spent my whole life drawing monsters and collecting monster toys and watching monster movies and honestly, there was almost nothing odd to me about the idea of a little creature with massive steel jaws sprouting out of its scalp. I've just seen SO many freaky creatures in my life, it was pretty darn standard. Monsters don't have to follow normal animal designs/rules, it's interesting when something looks completely unique.

And yeah, that does mean I actually don't consider any pokemon too bizarre. Even the concept of an empty bug-shell-ghost, seems like an obvious and simple idea to me, and I myself have designed monsters that are nothing but huge crawling stomachs like swalot (I would've liked swalot more, though, if it had been drawn just slightly more detailed and learned a few better attacks)