>>44751689What do you think happens later in life? Ash, and many other young trainers, might catch a lot of Pokemon and leave many of them behind as the journey goes on. And then what? Do they take care of them all when they retire? Are all of their former partners running around in a huge patch of land that they had to buy to accommodate all of them? Do the Pokemon just stay with the Professor forever?
"Thanks for traveling with me, forming bonds and growing. Now I'm going to leave you behind in the hands of an old man that I trust, where you'll only see me maybe once a year from now on." But also some of them were caught from the wild, rather than agreed to join up with him, so after being taken on a wild fighting tour, they just live on a ranch somewhere.
