The Pokédex Is For And By Kids

I am cursed, as a fan of things, to have too-strong a desire that what I talk about to be acceptably real.

This past week I saw someone in the Ranma ½ Subreddit forward a theory – well, not even, they asked if anyone else already had the same idea – that Ranma Saotome’s poor performance in school is not because he is kind of stupid and the storyteller is trying to communicate that with his stupid actions and the school results he has that look a lot like what a stupid person would get, but rather, because he’s actually very fluent in American English. Now, this is a beautiful theory. I really do mean it, and I have to assume this is an idea the person in question holds to because they can use that idea, in their head, to get something, to go somewhere. I could never come up with something so beautifully out-of-context.

That’s not to say I am unwhimsical when considering fiction! I have a tiny drop or two of whimsy, smeared about the edges and dull in all but the most potent of UV lights. Let me then present to you a completely unfounded opinion, of my own, about the Pokédex, in Pokemon.

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