• matlag@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Unpopular opinion: first time I saw the Pokemon anime, I immediately thought about dogs fights: dogs love you even if you mistreat them, and have them fight each other for no reason falls definitely into that.

    When they’re wounded, you’ll take them to a Pokemon hospital vet. Everyone knows what happens. No question needed. The vet/cute little doctor will pretend to have sympathy but never scolds the trainer to have put the dog/Pokemon in that situation in the first place.

    I never figured how Pokemon trainers can send them to battles and then be horrified if they get hurt. Like the fuck you think would happen eventually??

    Pokemon trainers are like those fighting dogs trainers, with nice excuses and a rosy narrative.