>>51432182And? I've stressed enough times that is a common thing in almost all fiction. Does courage using a computer stop him from being a dog? No. Pokémon are constructed as natural creatures and they evoke that by their actions and the way they're presented. Again Tajiri in the manga, which by the way is official, compares Pokémon to cats and dogs. His vision for Pokémon battles was like two dog owners allowing their dogs to fight, and I don't need to stress again how abundant domesticated animal imagery is transplanted into the Pokémon themselves.
Pokémon will never be what you want it to be. At it's core Pokémon is about learning and exploring the natural world, it appeals to a child's imagination. Beneath all the fantastical elements it's really a series about interacting and learning about the natural world and the critters that inhabit it. In the prologue for the manga Tajiri, as a child, is shown going bug catching but he imagines Pokémon while out in the field. The epilogue for the manga ends with a child seeing a sparrow and thinking it's a Pokémon, appealing to the child's imagination and getting him interested in learning about our natural wolrd using a fantasy one as a vehicle. Indeed in the manga Tajiri writes that Pokémon should evoke a sense of natural curiosity. I've met biologists who became interested in their field thanks to Pokémon. The series will never ever become the inanity you people want it to be, Pokémon has been constructed to be a certain way since the get-go and now you even have the words of the very people who created the series. Learn to stick to your own mirages.
