>>58319336Consistently, in the anime.
>BUT THE ANIME ISNT CANONOkay, the games then. There are several instances within the games where pokemon do or say something and humans can accurately determine what they want to communicate via their vocalizations or actions. Pokemon can accurately understand human speech in battle, and follow their orders to the letter regardless of how complex. These are mainline titles, not spinoffs. In Legends ZA, real time battles are a thing, which means the pokemon must be able to fully comprehend everything the trainer says to do as they're ordered in real time. There are also in-game instances of humans finding Pokemon attractive (the woman talking about Machoke) to support this, as well as the inverse (Froslass in PLA), and mentions of humans and pokemon being married (DPPt, in the Japanese). Ergo, since humans can fully understand pokemon and pokemon can fully understand humans, consent is fully possible between humans and Pokemon. If you deny this, then you are a fake fan tourist who needs to leave the board.
