Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 28, 2006

Bulbasaur is one of the 493 fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise&mdash;a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. CNN has called Bulbasaur one of the "lead critters", referring to it and its later forms as "the Carmen Miranda of Pokémon figures" due to the "increasingly exotic foliage on its head" as it evolves. Bulbasaur are one of the first Pokémon that a player can obtain in the first of the series’ video games (Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue). Bulbasaur also appear often in the Pokémon anime. In every version of the Pokémon series, Bulbasaur are vaguely reptilian creatures that move on all fours. They are small and squat, and have a light blue-green body coloration, with darker blue-green spots. The artwork design of Bulbasaur was created by Ken Sugimori for the creature's 1996 debut in the Pokémon video games, and has since remained unchanged. (More...)

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