>>58614704Oak wasn't involved with the early research into pokémon, you dumb cunt. All he did was develop the first ELECTRONIC pokédex from the various pre-existing sources of information available to him. And yeah, the separation of real from Pokémon world allowed them to explore concepts and more importantly Pokémon designs keeping it strictly to "the real world but no-one bothered to study these incredibly amazing creatures until the 1800's because reasons for the game's existence in the first place".
