>>49953035They want to ship humans with Pokemon, but they can’t. They’ve wanted to since at least Pokemon Heroes. But they know it would cause alarmists to accuse them of promoting bestiality. No matter how wholesome they were about it, that’s what would happen. If they showed something like picrel but more prominently, “this is my fiancé, she’s a Gothitelle”, it would still happen. Journalists would go find fan art of shit like Ash frenching Pikachu, they they would post it on their alarmist articles while saying “this is what Pokemon is promoting”. That’s why all that can be done is to show funny little pieces of subtext and background scenes, like picrel.