I hate to ask, but when did Pokemon start having a million nigger NPCs? Was it Sun and Moon? I watched the trailer from yesterday and noticed that Kalos is starting to look a little too much like modern day France if you catch my drift.
Let's be real, that was already starting with XY. It's gotten worse with the Switch games because the character designs have gotten uglier on average.
First four gens almost everyone was light-skinned because they were either Japanese or a white foreigner with an English name (in the Japanese version). The only dark-skinned characters I can think of were Phoebe, who's meant to be Okinawan or Polynesian, and Dahlia, who's explicitly Latina given she speaks random Spanish words in both the English and Japanese versions.
Black/White was the first to have multiple black people around, but even then there's not that many of them considering New York's real life racial population. Among the major characters it was just Lenora, Marshal, and Iris, and according to the leaked documents Iris is meant to be a sand-nigger and not a nigger-nigger. Oh right, just remembered Marlon, but from the light skin you can around his waist and way he talks in the Japanese version, he's meant to be a really tanned Japanese swimmer. And out of all the random NPCs I think the only ones that were black were the basketball players, football players, and breakdancers.
I don't think XY had any major dark-skinned characters except Grant and Shauna, but the random NPCs were like 1/3 black in that game. Look through the trainer classes and you'll see that a ton of them that covered both genders (ex. rising stars, schoolboys/schoolgirls, roller skaters, rangers, veterans) would have one gender be black and the other white.
Sun/Moon had a fairly high amount of dark-skinned characters, but that game had some decent reason for it since Alola was Hawaii and most of them were implied to be the Pokemon equivalent to native Hawaiians. They did do the thing XY did for the Veteran class but switch the races, so it was a white guy and black woman, while XY's Veterans were a black guy and white woman.
Sword/Shield is when both the major characters and random NPCs start to just have a lot of random darkies that's hard to tell what race they're even supposed to be, if anything. And a lot of random NPCs in SWSH just look weird ugly in general. And then SV not only has a bunch of ugly major characters, but tons of random NPCs look like AI-generated mystery meat and trannies.
Since someone mentioned Legends Arceus, that game wasn't like that, pretty much everyone was a light-skinned Jap, as is fitting for the setting. There was one black guy with Iscan, but given his squinty eyes and other things, I think he's meant to be a really tanned Japanese guy from beach similar to Marlon, but they went overboard in making him really dark to the point he looks like a nigger. Probably a more questionaly thing actually is that Professor Laventon has rather tanned skin even through he's meant to be a 19th centual British guy.
