>>52678825Shrink was the original, and never stopped being canon, Game Freak just felt like viciously beating ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE over the head with it to remind them that it is in fact the case.
>>52678845That's conjecture of "connecting" the Pokeballs to the explicitly-digitization-based transport and storage system. Bill's PC boxes are whack.
>>52678870The sprite/model shrinking on KO has been a thing for literally every single game, and it was explicitly stated in 1996 supplementary material published by Game Freak itself.
