One thing I have issues with the Pokemon Company. Is how Pokemon are given pronouns. Which is that in most anime media (minus Detective Pikachu), all Pokemon are referred to by “it” pronouns. Which frustrates me because it causes so many problems in most of all the anime. See when trainers refer to their Pokemon in English dubs, they’re referred to by as an “it” rather than a ”he” or “she”. Which frustrates me because a lot of Pokemon have obvious gender dimorphism. Like Friede’s Pikachu, Captain Pikachu, is obviously male. Yet he’ll refer to him as an it. Which is baffling because there’ll be episodes like that episode season 1 episode 37 of Pokemon Horizons about Oinkologne. A species of Pokemon with obvious gender dimorphism. Yet their trainers will referrer to them as “it”. Because of this, when a trainer says “It’s my best friend” or “Its awesome”. They’re suppose to be referring to their Pokemon, with their tones meant to be kind and nice. Except because they’re using “it” pronouns, it makes them sound nicely cold. Which breaks immersion and weakens emotional moments. They’re suppose to sound like loving trainers, but they sound like they view their Pokemon as objects. Which is just more baffling. So why is this a thing?
See, the Pokemon Company has a legalism where all Pokemon has to be referred to with “it” pronouns for english translations, no matter even if Pokemon have identified genders.
If you’re wondering why I’m talking about the English translations? Well thats because in the Japanese dubs, they don’t use pronouns for Pokemon. Instead they just repeat Pokemon names. So instead of hearing “It’s amazing”, instead they’ll say “Pikachu’s amazing.”
Except English dubs demand pronouns, because names are repetitive. Except because of the legalism, all Pokemon have to referred to with “it”.
Whats more frustrating, is that the Pokemon Company can easily fix this. All they need to do is have them tweak the rule. Make it say: All Pokemon must be referred to as it, unless their gender has been specify, then use their established pronouns.
Except in order for the Pokemon Company to do this. Is for the fanbase to complain about this and make awareness to this. Except the Japanese fanbase are barely aware of this, because like I mention, this problem is in the English fanbase. While the English fanbase are desensitized to this and rarely talk about this issue. Due to them talking about other problems in Pokemon, causing the pronoun problem to be overlooked.
So I just hope this can be talked about more. Because the more the Pokemon Company, the more of hypocrites they make themselves. Because they want to go both ways saying that Pokemon aren’t slaves or pets. Pokemon are our friends, family, companions, partners, ect. They can feel empathy for us, and will be with us during our hardest times. So they should be treated as equals and never looked down upon. Yet the Pokemon Company wants to address our Pokemon with “it” pronouns no matter what, wanting to treat them like objects.
Do you get what I mean. It’s frustrating, and I hope this will be talked about more. But thats just my opinion. What do you think?
yeah, while i haven't watched the pokemon anime in a long time, that sounds like a genuine issue that needs to be addressed. let's hope they can fix that.
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