>>53776024>Electric Tale of Pikachu had like one panel where it says that in that continuity (or maybe even all of early Pokemon, who knows) that all types of Pokemon had enough, like, similarities in their DNA that they'd most accurately all be classified as variations on a single species, or something.Nah, that was canon at one point. I think it came from the Pokedex book, which was published the same month Red and Green released in Japan. It's the purest form of original day 1 canon we got.
It said that Pokemon could all be classified as their own species, and it's where shrinkage was first mentioned. Shrinking being what separates Pokemon from all other animals, which also still exist.
>I see anons talk a lot about how in Gen 1 it seemed implied that Pokemon were super recently discovered, but I just replayed that and don't remember that being in thereThat too is mentioned in the same book. But by "recent", it means like the 19th century. The scientist who first studied them is even mentioned in the anime once. The book had a lot of info that wasn't really brought over in English
>spoilerSame 