>>49297350Maybe it is you who needs to take a chill pill. I don't need to go on a long winded post but it will suffice to say that the imagery and perception they give out shows that they encourage that view point.
Take for example that one latest Bidoof short. Notice how they live, how they behave and their overall appearance. You have fantastical critters that resemble beavers and birds from the real world, and they behave in some ways similarly as well. They also have fantastical abilities. Looking at it without knowing the context that it's Pokemon you would get the impression that it's a regular cartoon that takes place in the real world. And as I have stated in the past, Pokemon retools most Pokemon in a similar context. They could be inspired off a myth or a profession but they are retooled in a similar context.
It's also why New Pokemon Snap wasn't subtle about this in anyway. The game was essentially marketed as seeing Pokemon behave in the wild. It's very, very telling when the developers opted to make the Pokemon sound more like real animals. As if a fantasy safari tour of taking pictures of fantastical critters would be more immersive if they sounded like real animals.
Verily, you can't fault a man for thinking like *that* when the way the series presents the Pokemon is like that. They are Pokemon but that doesn't detract that they're fantasy critters with very familiar, yet also fantastical, trappings.
