>>49723755>>49723919from takeshi shudo's novelisation of the anime's first episodes:
Pocket Monsters... Or Pokémon for short.
Pokémon researchers have published many theories, but there's very little we actually know about them.
Despite existing side by side, there is very little we know about the way of life of Pokémon species.
It's understandable though.
Throughout the thousands of years of human history, it was only relatively recently that we came to fully understand the animals known as dogs and cats.
Until that point people thought that dogs and wolves were entirely unrelated creatures.
Nobody would believe that cats and lions were both varieties of feline.
As such with Pokémon... For example, Meowth is a Pokémon that resembles a cat, however we as of yet have no idea what relationship it may share with actual cats.
Firstly, it is only recently that we have started calling these creatures Pocket Monsters.
For a long time, humans divided creatures into to broad categories.
The first was edible animals like cows or pigs, animals like horses you could ride, dogs that could act as guards or sometimes just cute animals that could be kept at pets... Basically, animals that are useful to humans. You could consider them to be humanity's allies. The other category includes insects that destroy crops and wolves that attack sheep, they could be considered humanity's enemies...
Throughout human history, the quest for food and survival has been a constant war.
Is it an enemy? An ally? That was all that mattered.
As their way of life became easier, humans gained more curiosity about the world around them, and began the study of creatures other than themselves... The study of animals other than humans known as, this may be a difficult word, biology, is only a recent development in human history.
Proper research of Pokémon has only started within the past few centuries.
