5th Gen It's Official!!!!!

[Volroc]

No it doesn't, a sword is a sword even without a Sheathe...

you would stab mijumaru in the belly O.O

 

[Frozen Solid Tea]

How does he say the evos are fake?

Sorry, when I wrote that, I had mistaken the final Bulbapedia line for the interview. But still, the "katana in the chest" thing pratically proves it.

 

[Boarbeque]

You guys do realize the shell Katana could have moved to it's head right?
Though it kind of doesn't look like all that much like a Katana, a little but not that much...but then again it is a shell...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai

In the beta art we got like 2 or so months ago we first saw Mijumaru's evolution, along with Tsutaja's (and koromori and kibago blah blah blah).

Upon closer inspection of Mijumaru's evo he had a samurai kusazari/haidate around his waist with one shell on each side, which basically symbolized having two "sheathed" katanas:

Samurai's use swords, not horns. Samurai's are bipedal. Sea Otters are also quadrapedal (at least i think they are) but Mijumaru isn't and neither is his evo. It wouldn't make sense for a Samurai to become a non samurai through an evolution, especially since the whole samurai personality and look is being given early on both in the anime and in the design of Mijumaru and its first evo.

Mijumaru's evo shown in the beta art also has a hair spike in the back, which could later turn into something resembling a helmet.

Another thing is Mijumaru's design is Japanese. Unicorns aren't japanese but Samurai's are.

Basically the starter evo shown on 2ch/4ch is wrong.

 

[Ho-Oh]

This doesn't confirm them being real. So, back to the Fake and Unconfirmed thread we go!

(You guys can discuss Ken's quote there, in relation to the evos).