>>23250523>Especially the anime, it's just an endless king of the hill battle to the glory of sadistic manchildren at the expense of countless creatures, with the pretext of I'M SHOWING YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU BY VIRTUE OF SELF-SACRIFICE HURRRRRRWell think of how fucked up American superhero comics are, there vigilantes fly around wearing masks and spandex suits, beating the shit out of anyone they feel like. If superheroes were real, we'd be terrified of them.
Yes, the premise of Pokemon is sort of fucked up, but it's a fictional world, where magic animals can be converted to data and stored in something roughly the size of a tennis ball.