Physiology
Oshawott is a bipedal sea otter-like Pokémon, primarily light blue, dark blue, and white in coloration. Oshawott has a rounded, spherical white head, with small, triangular dark-blue ears to the sides. Oshawott's eyes are large, dark, and ovoid in shape; its dark-orange nose is shaped like an oval on its side. Oshawott also possesses speckles to the sides of its face, most likely meant to be a stylistic implication of short whiskers in the common manner of cartoon canines, and light blue bubble-esque features composing a "collar" around its neck. Oshawott's torso is light blue, and decorated with a pale yellow seashell feature in the center. Made out of keratin, this appendage can be removed and used in various ways; mainly, as a weapon. Its small, digit-less and somewhat rounded arms are white in coloration, with its feet—having, unlike its forearms, discernible digits—colored dark blue. Oshawott also possesses a slightly plank-shaped dark blue tail and a pair of fangs unseen until it opens its mouth.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
It can fight skillfully by detaching the seashell-shaped appendage on its belly. This shell can be used for a variety of different things, such as a acting like a weapon, shield, and boomerang.
Behavior
If Oshawott is attacked, it will fight back using its shell attachment without any hesitation.
Habitat
Oshawott mainly live in water but may come to land.
Diet
- Main article: Pokémon food
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Oshawott, along with Tepig and Snivy appear when Black accidentally drops his box containing the Pokémon. When Poka and Snivy begin fighting, Oshawott attempts to break them up, only to get hurt in the process. After getting annoyed, it attacks them and sends Poka running off.
In the Pokémon Master Black & White manga
Oshawott is Bel's starter Pokémon in the Pokémon Master Black & White manga series.
- Oshawott and its fellow Black and White starters were first revealed as silhouettes on the May 9, 2010 episode of Pokémon Sunday. They were later revealed in full in the June 2010 issue of CoroCoro.
- Oshawott is the first Template:Type2 starter Pokémon to be based on a mammal as well as the first mammalian starter not to be Template:Type2.
- Oshawott and its evolutions are the only Template:Type2 starter Pokémon that are not in any of the Water egg groups, being exclusive to the Ground egg group.
- Oshawott has the lowest base stat total of all Template:Type2 starter Pokémon.
- Oshawott is the only unevolved Water-type starter Pokémon not to have the letter 'i' in its name.
- Ken Sugimori said that Oshawott and its evolutions were the hardest for the team to design during production, as conceptualizing its evolutions were difficult. They eventually settled on a samurai theme and making its final form a sea lion after a trip to an aquarium.
Origin
Oshawott appears to be based on a sea otter. Using its shell as a sword is a direct reference to the Samurai.
Name origin
Oshawott possibly derives from ocean, shell, water and otter; it may possibly be a corruption of "ocean water". The osha part could be a corruption of O-shaped, given that its Japanese name contains maru, meaning round. It could also make reference to George Ohsawa, a famed dietitian born into a poor samurai family during the Meiji Restoration of Japan. Its Japanese name may be derived from 水 mizu, water or 未熟 mijuku, naive or immature, and 丸 maru, round. -maru is also a common suffix in male Japanese names. The syllable mi in its name, meaning "three" or "third", may imply a lineage within the evolutionary line with Mijumaru being third in line.