>>47077514As I said, they've been telling it for 25 years.
Here's the thing, short-pants - they aim at kids, yeah? Kinds aren't going to take
>>47077509 metaphoically, they're going to assume Anon in the shopping centre has a pokémon girlfriend, because only pokémon evolve with Water stones.
See the problem? "joke" is the cloak they hide behind because no respecting journo will broach the topic and any who do bring it up can be laughed away, while making the questioner look like the worst greasy manchild nerd, for even thinking up a question like that.
Perfect crime, continue the Boss's ethos of "humans and pokémon cross-breed, get over it" while having the plausible deniability to get away with it.
The fact Nintendo of America nerfed Canalave library's original texts so fucking hard even proves that, Burger N was NOT comfortable with the implications direct translation would have spewed up.
Luckily, TPCi direct translate the original Japanese to each individual language, insead of into English, then into the rest of the EU languages like NoA did, wo we'll have a better idea what exactly is their view in November.