These are really charming illustrations! It's enough to make you want to have a pet arthropod, or a Pokémon game based on real creatures. Aren't insects such

These are really charming illustrations! It's enough to make you want to have a pet arthropod, or a Pokémon game based on real creatures. Aren't insects such as beetles somewhat popular pets in Japan, and wasn't catching and collecting a major inspiration for the Pokémon games? (Not to mention the bug catching minigame in Animal Crossing?) They're kind of underappreciated in the US, which is too bad.