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Seriously, though, what I love most about Pokémon is that the official explanation for why it’s okay that a bunch of children are running animal cage fights for money is because:
a. All living creatures in the Pokémon universe have a natural inclination to set up tournament brackets and engage in a series of staged one-on-one duels where nobody actually gets seriously hurt; and
b. Humans symbiotically contribute to this phenomenon by furnishing the infrastructure for Pokémon to organise themselves into stables and more effectively pursue martial glory.
Like, we are describing a universe where not only is a knowledge of and propensity toward the principles of professional wrestling genetically encoded in all beings, but humanity’s natural ecological niche is “wrestling promoter”.
It’s a beautiful thing.