>>47618838>>47618878I love how crystal clear & indisputable the book makes it that pokemon coexist with animals. I want to headcanon a bridge between the old & new lore, like the pokemon hunted the animals into extinction around the turn of the millennium when the professors discovered 100 new species (which was mostly through improvements in breeding).
But alas, the modern canon makes it clear that all the new pokemon were around forever and known about, which is much less interesting. And animals probably never existed. I guess the "discovery" of new mons is actually the cataloguing them in the dex by the player characters.
I also really miss gen 1's whole intensive scientific research into the pokemon phenomena, the theme is lost now even though the techy pokedex & pokeballs, and the professors are all from that.
