{"id":53101,"date":"2025-10-17T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=53101"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:49:28","slug":"pokemon-legends-z-a-fans-in-japan-are-losing-it-over-mega-starmies-massive-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/pokemon-legends-z-a-fans-in-japan-are-losing-it-over-mega-starmies-massive-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A fans in Japan are losing it over Mega Starmie&#8217;s massive legs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has become customary now that with each new Pok\u00e9mon game comes a new set of Mega Evolutions. While some of these forms feature <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/pokemon-x-account-issues-apology-after-staff-seemingly-gets-brainwashed-by-mega-malamar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">designs that are massive departures from the Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s regular forms<\/a>, others are nothing more than slight deviations. Mega Starmie in <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/strong> is an example of the latter, having spawned several fan creations by Japanese fans on account of its long, almost human-like, legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u53cb\u9054\u306b\u30dd\u30b1\u30e2\u30f3\u65b0\u4f5c\u306e\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc\u30df\u30fc\u898b\u305b\u3089\u308c\u3066\u6b7b\u306c\u307b\u3069\u7b11\u3063\u3066\u308b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JcaJRuGe4Z\">pic.twitter.com\/JcaJRuGe4Z<\/a><\/p>&mdash; album (@album_ad_medic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/album_ad_medic\/status\/1978665184173400209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Post translation: My friend showed me the new Mega Starmie, and I&#8217;m dying of laughter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mega Starmie\u2019s design is, for all intents and purposes, basically a large Starmie with long appendages. As such, many Japanese fan creations have the Pok\u00e9mon using its long legs for activities like <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Foolish_potato_\/status\/1978825913610477672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wearing long, latex stockings<\/a> and running long distances (usually to an uplifting theme like Spyair\u2019s \u201cRage of Dust\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u8d70\u308b\u30e1\u30ac\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc\u30df\u30fcGB <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OfO4TgHZY0\">pic.twitter.com\/OfO4TgHZY0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u5929\u8349\u9baa (@maguro_amakusa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maguro_amakusa\/status\/1978811579606126840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to Mega Starmie\u2019s size, some have started comparing it to other large stars, such as the DC Comics supervillain <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mumei\/status\/1978782031355031861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Starro<\/a>, SpongeBob SquarePants\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tofu3452\/status\/1978830838813904942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Patrick Star<\/a>, and Kirby\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ygame090104\/status\/1978671020761399464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Starman<\/a>. Others have gone a step further, using Mega Starmie\u2019s silhouette to create fan art of what seems to be a fusion of star-shaped demons Decarabia and Kaiwan from the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u63cf\u304b\u305a\u306b\u306f\u3044\u3089\u308c\u306a\u304b\u3063\u305f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ipmuf6ISI\">pic.twitter.com\/2ipmuf6ISI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u6b20\u7247 (@kakeranokake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kakeranokake\/status\/1978813879963570426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A features several new Mega Evolutions, but Mega Starmie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/j9GT92VhEYM?si=GTLsle0Ilhcw7NvS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">erratic in-game walking animations<\/a> have made it the star (pun intended) of the latest game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legends.pokemon.com\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/a> is available on the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/reviews\/pokemon-legends-z-a-hands-on-preview-the-series-is-finally-trusting-its-players-with-more-challenging-gameplay-and-its-never-felt-more-immersive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A hands-on preview: the series is finally trusting its players with more challenging gameplay, and it\u2019s never felt more immersive<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only been one day since the launch of Pokemon Legends: Z-A, and fans are already locked-in on making art of Starmie&#8217;s mega evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":53103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,70],"class_list":["post-53101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-pokemon-series"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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