>>25198692Not all pokemon are animals though or beasts, if we consider the real animals that may or may not exist in pokemon. I never got this viewpoint. They're monsters with different origins, intelligence, and composition. We have literal robots, ghosts, aliens, and everything inbetween.
You're technically an animal but you're not the same as a dog. Same stuff. A beedrill and a Metagross are different beings in every way possible. Pokemon is not a reliable label in this sense.
>>25198704If you shoved it in a different franchise it could probably pass as a scifi alien.
>>25198718>pet like a dogWell so does Arceus(god), Alakhazam (iq of 5k), and the porygon line (literal computer). It's kind of weird like that.
