>>42186970>>42187140While I understand that it's pretty fucking optimistic to have early teen kids traveling the country with only their monster pets for company and said monsters getting free healthcare in every town, I don't really get where this image of the Pokemon world as an absolute scarcity-free toothless utopia come from. Even the Pokemon anime, possibly the most positive and kid-friendly adaptation of the franchise, had characters like Jessie coming from such extreme poverty that she and her mother had to eat """meals""" made out of snow in the winter. In the games, N was adopted by Ghetsis from who knows where and was allowed to interact only with Pokemon that had a history of human abuse, meaning these things also very much exist even if we're never shown a lot of it. Even in a world better off than ours, people can wish for more and more wealth and power with no regard for methods, which is how Giovanni's Team Rocket operates.
The Pokemon world is very much based on our contemporary real world, just with magical monsters, some pop culture embellishments like fancy tech and real psychics and a dose of JRPG romanticism with cozy towns and impressive geography, fit in a package with narratives suited for an all-ages audience. None of these things are at odds with the Pokemon world having a reflection of the real world's less pretty qualities.
