>>50377757What Pokemon do isn't at all dissimilar to what other fictional critters do and in some ways they take a big step back such as not being able to talk except for very, very few examples in the series. That's one of the bigger de-humanizing aspect Pokemon possess, another is the fact that they're not even people in their universe or their interactions with the player in the games which a lot of their actions mirror the actions and interactions with real domesticated animals. Take for example the pastures in Legends of Arceus, they sit behind a fence all day, all they do is make their cries just like real livestock, and they're just grazing and eating hay all day and we can even assume the whole place stinks since GameFreaks has no problem implying Pokemon do their business anywhere in the open and people have no problem with that. In contrast with, say, digimon which also has digifarms for these computer data but theirs is an island where you can build them gyms and things like that and they even write you letters humanizing them in a much greater degree than what you see in Arkeos.
So yes, there's humanizing aspects but there's also aspects that dehumanize them. It's like I've said, and again even the guy responsible for the writing of the early anime says as much, that nothing pokemon do as behavior is unusual in the world of fiction when it comes to critters. The fact that there's things like no talking already puts them lower in the anthropomorphic scale than whatever you see in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
>>50378065Because Pokemon are not constructed to be people. Sugimori even said as much, that they want to present Pokemon in a certain fashion regardless of whatever their pokedex entries say. As such it doesn't matter that Alakazam has 4,000 IQ, it's a Pokemon and not a person thus it exist within a Pokemon framework.
