>>52743076>His opinion does matter--It doesn't. His words aren't supported by anything actually stated in-series and are equivalent in worth to literal fanfiction.
>Look at the video posted, the girl speaks of Pokémon as if she was talking about dogsThe whole point of the video is that she's naive and is talking out of her ass. Even professor who studies pokemon says that he has no idea what's she's talking about.
>Why would Gengar wait 3 years for it's owner instead of acting like it states on the dex?Because it's not a wild Gengar, but one who already bonded to his trainer and sees him as his friend.
>Pokémon as cute and innocent crittersEpic fanfic that has never been true. Especially in the anime that you oh so love to cite, where wild pokemon regularly attack and harass people and cause mass destruction. The first example that comes to mind is the episode with giant Tentacruel (who was also shown to be sapient and capable of talking, by the way).
>company is very anal about depiction of PokemonThey aren't. Picrel.
>And what you mention is common in all media--Which is entirely irrelevant to the pokemon discussion.
>Tajiri's statements and even statements from The Pokémon CompanyAll discredited repeatedly by games Tajiri himself was overseeing. Sucks that the old fart you're worshipping doesn't seem to care about his original pre-Gen 1 intent, doesn't it?
>this implies Pokémon can't clean themselvesMassive reach and utter fanfiction. Pretty much every single wild pokemon we ever saw was squeaky clean.
>games and anime are constructing Pokémon as cats and dogsDon't recall the last time I saw a cat or a dog that had sapience and intelligence on par with humans, could perfectly understand human speech and properly communicate with humans and experienced complex human emotions (including romantic attraction to humans). But I'm sure if irl cats/dogs were that good your perverted ass would advocate for them to be leashed amd treated as dumb animals as well.