>>58268544The instruction manual was designed to appear to be a leather-cover spiralbound travel journal/sketchbook/guidebook. Even the sidebars come in the form of scrap notes hand-taped or paperclipped to the page. The Pokedex itself is the concept writ large. What real world activity do you think the name "Safari Zone" invokes? The entire tonal premise of Pokemon is being on a wilderness adventure and capturing what you find there, then building a powerful team out of what you discovered and made your own.
