Has anyone ever heard this before or have any source for this information, or is it just complete bullshit?
Popping it into Pokemonamie in my copy of X ....
The there does seem to be a blinking animation, which would imply those are indeed pupils (the coloring is different too), but uhhh they dont close all the way? It's weird, some of the eye animations look like normal eyelids and others look like its closed but moving around.
The pupils move around and follow you...maybe?
Here's a Youtube video of Simipour in Pokemon-Amie.
It's eyes are closed. It just changes the curve/slant to show what its feeling cause it has no eyebrows. The same thing is done with
Snorlax,
Sunflora,
Torkoal, etc..
As noted, this is just reaching to try and connect them with the Three Wise Monkeys. And all I have to say about that is we have a
translated interview from Ken Sugimori, Takao Unno (who designed the first stage of the Elemental Monkeys), and Yusuke Ohmura where they went through all the Gen V Pokemon and not once when discussing the Elemental Monkeys did they say anything about the Three Wise Monkeys. And note this is the series of articles which revealed the original tank origin of the Deino family, so if the Three Wise Monkeys were part of the design I think it would have mentioned. But no, instead Unno clarifies the expression on the monkeys is based on the personalities: Pansage was a punk, Pansear is carefree, and Panpour is gentle. He admits they're subtle and that the designer of their evos emphasized it more.
I can sort of see it. In their default pose, Pansage is almost shrugging as if it was saying "Did I do that?" in a teasing voice; Pansear is holding its hand to its ear as if it prompting to hear what you said again cause it wasn't paying attention; and Panpour is just vibin' (going with the "flow" if you will).
That said, relating to the image
Scorpio posted from TVTropes, it could be that the artist who made the evos could have seen a slight Wise Monkey relation (or rather they're doing the opposite of what the Wise Monkeys are supposed to be doing) and did the Japanese delinquent thing to further reference it. I could see that happening, an incorrect interpretation enforcing the incorrection. But since they didn't interview the creatores of the Simi, we don't know.
Kleavor and Ursaluna will probably be fit into the Paldea anime or whatever they concoct for Gen 9, but for the rest of the Hisuian forms as well as Origin Form Dialga and Palkia... are they just never gonna be shown animated?
Well, here's the thing, now that the anime is no longer restricting themselves to Ash & companions going on a journey through the newest region, we don't know what they'll have plan when the Gen 9 anime rolls around.
One thing I will note is that a main focus of Paldea is the Academy and we have the past/future theme. This could easily lead them to showcasing the Hisuian Pokemon they haven't yet, possibly even properly featuring them as in SV they'll be usable in the core series & in modern times. As for Dialga & Palkia, well usually saved for movies.
Though the anime doesn't seem too concerned with showing off everything nowadays, we've skipped over many notable NPCs from the games, with the Gen 8 anime they skipped over or skimmed through locations in Galar, and I don't think we've even seen all the Galarian Variant Pokemon yet.
PLA sold well enough that I would be surprised if there wasn't like a movie or something dedicated to it at some point in the future. Probably some time travel nonsense because causality just doesn't exist in the Pokemon universe.
Would prefer an animated special myself. Hisuian Snow was nice but doing something summing up the adventure akin to Origins did with Gen I would suffice. Make it 6 episodes, one for each major area and then the 6th for the finale stuff. Maybe extend it to 7 to give them some breathing room.
Also, it seems like Snom's only appearance in any manga so far was one panel of Adventures.
The most notable missing mon to me is Galarian Meowth. Not only is it not in any manga, but not even in the anime. With what they did with Alolan Meowth you'd think the writers would have a ton of fun with Galarian Meowth... but nothing. Heck, if they didn't want it sticking out, had it be one of Rose's Pokemon that followed him around (making Rose a slight mirror to Giovanni in a way).