To answer the "Why would Ash's mom just let him roam around?" question, I have only to say this, Becoming a Pokemon trainer is considered accustomed within the Pokemon world: Just like playing basketball, going camping, or going to school is for us in real life. Its basically, a custom, tradition, if that's what you want to call it. To futher explain, there have been some instances within the anime, where some children were forbidden to become Pokemon trainer's due to their parent's will or disinterest. An adequate amount of you may see it as weird or disagree, but it is a parent's choice and the child's dream. There are even Pokemon schools for those children who are unable to travel the different regions. There is also the age limit, which means that some thought is place upon the well-being of offspring, though ten may seem a bit vernal.
yaminokaitou said:
-What the characters did about getting money for food. OK, they get money from battling and whatnot in the game, but you never see them exchanging money after battles. And also, even if they were to get money, they go out to eat so often you'd think all of it would disappear after a while. But yet Ash never is broke. Maybe his mother sends him money?
Your conjecture, on Ash's mother perhaps shipping banknotes, is an acceptable and satisfying supposition. Now, allow me to provide my own theories.
Upon speculation I have, but two supposals, one is : perhaps the money is given to them by the Pokemon Center. How have I concluded this you may ask, here is my supposition, the Pokemon Center is a station of both somnolence and medical patronage. It appears to be the capital of advocacy within each town, let alone the whole region. Trainers can find maps of various places, transfer their Pokemon and receive ambulatory healing, take refuge, attain food, register for the Pokemon League, and a plethora of other activities, so it is fairly natural to assume that the Pokemon Center would provide funds - of some sort - to traveling trainers.
My next supposal is that Ash could also have money stored away - maybe in a bank of sort within the PC or located elsewhere, but accessible by the PC. A "Trainer's Account", you could call it, that is provided for Pokemon trainer's venturing around the world. Though, it is moderately complicated and I have yet to work out all of the foibles.
-When you catch a pokemon and you have no room in your party, the ball goes to Bill's PC. But how does that happen? Does it just teleport like it does in the show? If it does teleport, what causes it to? Does Bill use some psychic type to teleport all the trainers' balls back?
Also, when holding the balls, how does he tell whose pokeball is whose? Does he put them all in a box labeled "blahblah's pokeballs" or something?
I also have another conjecture upon speculation. I suppose that is a special receptive device placed within the organic, manufactured Pokeballs, that allow them to confabulate with Bill's PC. These special devices (which could be hidden on the inside) may activate each time a Pokemon is captured, and signals to the PC that A.) A Pokemon has been added to the Trainer's team and B.) X is currently the amount that the Trainer holds. When a seventh Pokeball is captured, the PC then transmits a signal to the PC telling it that there are additional Pokemon beyond the designated and specified number. The PC (or some satalite in orbit that picks up these waves) then sends out the same AC waves- a coequal to the ones that appear when a Pokemon is transfered by a more incomplex process through PC - and those AC waves travel through the air, or atmosphere, to the delegated Pokeball and teleports it back to the location of where the trainer acquired his or her first Pokemon and was registered as a trainer. I also surmise that each receptive device within the Pokeball has a specific number that identifies the Pokeball by a certain number that is placed upon it during manufacture. When a person first receives their Pokedex, their ID, all information such as age, date of trainer admission, and various other bits of vital data are entered, which could, also, allow them to be tracked by the PC or the orbiting satalite that I mentioned earlier. Upon registration for trainer-employment, a box or section is added for you (in that same place), that will serve as you Pokemon's destination upon transfer.
Though, it is only my theory.
One thing is that they keep mentioning states (like California in "Go West Young Meowth") and their continents are different, that has always puzzled me
Those states could very well exist within the anime, or they could be pun-intended. The fact that states were even mentioned does point to their existence within the Pokemon world.
The fact that there are Indian Elephants in the games, when the only animals in the anime ar epokemon.
Actually other animals have been mentioned, such as Brock making refernce to the story of Noah's Ark, and a dove, after he, Misty, Ash, and Team Rocket were stranded superseding the sinking of the St. Anne.
To add on to that factor, when a Pokedex pulls up data on a Pokemon it tends to make animal references, such as: Pikachu, the small, yellow, mouse Pokemon; Growlithe, the canine, or dog Pokemon; Meowth, the cat Pokemon; or Donphan, the pachyderm Pokemon. Animal references have been made before.
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