>>47624868Your article says Shudo said animals are meant to be extinct in the anime. I assume the fossil cloning they do all the time only works on pokemon? It makes sense that animals and pokemon are both canon, as animals are mentioned all the time in dex entries. But its extra interesting if humans are the last survivors (probably due to our intelligence). Maybe the Trex movie would have actually explored more thoughtful territory than say, the kabutops chase in heroes (that was cool though).
It also makes me think of where they could have taken the implications of the search for and cloning of mew, ancestor of all pokemon. Its already the first main story, our introduction to this world, but it becomes more ripe for analysis in this light. I hadn't really thought about it like this before because I assumed animals were completely noncanon.
