>>50462170Shudo's irrelevant to the discussion at hand, you foetid cunt. He didn't create it, didn't understand it, as it was created for a handheld video game console by people almost 20 years his junior, thus his thoughts on the world are irrelevant, particularly since TPC's production of the series since he left moved it mouch closer in line with what the game universe is presented as, they also took pains to retcon each and every little inconsistency he'd created (going as far as to provide an explanation for Pikachu bullshitting a win against Brock, albeit 20-ish years after the fact.
Tajiri's initial treatment for Capsule Monsters informed Pocket Monsters' treatment, when the scenario shifted as they worked on it. One thing that remained unchanged was the relationship between humans and pokémon. In Capsule Monsters, everyone's battle buddy was by their side all the time, from shopkeeps to antagonistic characters, the game boy limited them to displaying all them all they time though (it's why it's only recently that there's more people with their 'mons out chilling compared to the earlier days) and they were just as intrinsic to their lives, being held above the beasts like elephants, salmon, eels, jellyfish and cows (all real-life animals mentioned in Gen 1) just as pokémon are so intrinsically intertwined with humanity's existence in the pokéon world.
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me witch, I was alive when it was first written down.
