>>50287429Pokemon aren’t the same as real animals. That’s why the let Latias kiss Ash, among other things.
>But she was in human form!Lots of Pokemon can have humanlike forms.
>But she was a legendary!She still acted like a critter and was basically Bianca’s pet.
>But it wasn’t romantic!Brock said he was jealous.
Gamefreak doesn’t care about any of your ideas. Pokemon are canonically sexual beings, they implicitly have sex with each other, and they’re canonically attracted to humans. None of that stops them from being innocent critters.