>>50169546It's not about "over-analyzing", it's about putting to rest these inane mirages. Again, and I stress, Pokephilia itself is a silly concept. These creatures have to be taken out of their context, physically changed and be corrupted by grown man who lack morals. Just look at the former deleted OP vs what actual entails within the series.
It's a point that I constantly stress, that the series would rather play up the Pokemon as acting like dogs than entertain any of these motions you people think of. Instead of going on a date and holding hands, a Pokemon eats grass. Instead of going to the movies a Pokemon does cute motions while making their cries. It's a revealing contrast on how other series treat their creatures vs the image Pokemon puts forth. Like the digimon example I sometimes post, you see digimon enjoying themselves, spending money, talking to people, actually being people and acting more like yokai vs Pokemon in Arceus who behave like wild critters, are fenced inside farms away from the main settlement and are used for labor by their human owners or just hang around with their owners like a proper pet.
This isn't done out of anything other than to present a fictional natural world that is familiar to us and in turn familiar to *children* who are the main audience here.
And really, I can assure you people will pick apart Pokemon in the future. I've already seen papers for it written by academics, such as one on the arthoropod representation and another on the usage of ruins in Pokemon. Tolkien for example has historians who analyze his letters, and his work on Lord of the Rings. At one point people will dig deeper into the franchise than they already do now.
