Pokemon officially jumps the shark; now with DLC!

Pocky Balboa

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This just popped up in my recommendations and I am somewhat annoyed when I realized that I could have gotten this book when I saw it in a used bookstore in Japan in the 00s, but I skipped buying it because I thought it was just another Gen 1 guidebook instead of being the at-the-time official Pokedex with the full descriptions they couldn't fit in the original GB cartridges. Even though a lot of it is decanonized due to the old "Pokemon Kanto is IRL Kanto" now no longer being true from Gen 3 onwards, it's pretty interesting that some of the info is still canon and with a few still being shown in game mechanics (such as female Nidoran being able to breed and lay eggs, but Nidorina and Nidoqueen can't, and the latter two still being unable to breed even up to the current gen games). I guess there still some info in it that can still fit in current canon by just replacing the original IRL location with the Pokemon equivalent (i.e. replacing all mentions of France with Kalos in Baron Tajirin's creation of the first Pokedex, since that could still fit in canon with 111 of the Pokemon in the Kalos regional dex also being found in Kanto, so the original 80 in the OG dex can still work as the basis for the Kanto dex).

 
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