You either fully embrace the dog fighting aspects of pokemon (impossible since it's a kids franchise) or fully sugar coat it.
Ok, pokemon are willing slaves that enjoy fighting, move along instead of exploring the concept that crumbles under its own weight.
>Dude N wants to free pokemon so he's kinda nice (his ideas are acknowledged in-universe as not being evil)
>But umm actually evil knight hitler was manipulating him all along therefore his plans are evil!
It's fucking nonsense. It's just as shit as writing stories focusing on batman not killing the Joker, instead of glancing over the constructions necessary to keep the franchise going you explore them under the microscope undermining the whole premise