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Silly girl, they're no longer humans, they're only ghost types!

Ah of course, my mistake. How naive of me

It's ok friend, we always make mistakes

Next question: with Pokemon shaped like keyrings, appliances, coffins, and literal bags of garbage, how does everyone not just devolve into paranoid madness?

Easy: Pokémon are only found in Caves and Tall grasses. Both are easy to avoid.

All places I commonly leave my keys and coffins, though

Plus they're easier to detect than yokai

And significantly worse at disguising themselves as beautiful women

Question 3: what the hell was the thought process behind the castform character design?

"Yo we need a weather pokemon"
"How about a cloud with boobs"
"PHIL YOU'RE A GENIUS"

And here I always thought he looked more like a sperm with testicles. Either way, it figures Phil would be the one behind it

Phil is responsible for a lot of stuff

We try not to talk about Phil

Phil is the reason my life is in shambles

Does Phil have an explanation for why prof oak somehow only knew about 150 Pokemon for most of the beginning of Ash's journey?

Spontaneous amnesia

Sounds useful with Phil around

Sometimes