>>55840670What they mean is "they shrink down to the size of a monster ball, to be able to enter the monster ball". The fact the earliest Capsule Monsters treatment had a diagram specifically highlighting a generic kaiju popping out of a ball a human hand had cracked open kinda stresses Tajiri always saw them doing this, as it's been found in Gen 1 Japan-only lorebooks as well as being (hamfistedly) added in Gen 4 before finally being clarified in late Gen 8, after Game Freak discovered how exactly behind comprehension the west was.
