>>46830857The games and anime share the same fundamental world but are in parallel universes as a result of discrepancies such as characters, their personalities, and stories in general.
The anime is also the only piece of Pokemon media that is strictly watchdogged by both GameFreak AND The Pokemon Company on a constant basis to make sure it falls in line with the brand's vision of the Pokemon World, its inhabitants and how everything in it functions.
>No Pokemon League has a tournament besides Galar despite the anime showing they all doSimplification for gameplay's sake. Do you REALLY want to fight a bunch of nobodies or trainers you've already faced on top of Victory Road's gauntlet, all before the Elite Four and THEN the Champion?
>Anime constantly depicts places that don't exist in the gamesThe game's world is an abstraction. Lots of details irrelevant to the player's journey are redacted. You don't literally think some towns only have a couple or so houses despite having at least ten people inhabiting it, do you?
>Anime movies aren't even canon to the anime itselfMovies were all canonical until they took a new direction with the AU Movies. Just like the games, they're taking advantage of Pokemon as a multiverse franchise to explore new ideas and concepts in the movies without being strictly tied to the current ongoing anime.
>LIGHTNING ARMORGiven this was still relatively early into when Pokemon became a "big brand" proper, it's entirely possible this wound up being a dramatic representation of Swellow's Guts Ability.
>PIKACHU AIM FOR THE HORNThis is a line that only existed in the dub, but it is relatively fucking stupid Pikachu's able to disregard Ground's immunity to Electric when the plot demands it.
