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If youre familiar with the Pokemon universe, this sentence may seem normal to you.
If you arent, it probably seems extremelynotnormal.
What is a Pikachu?
Why does he love coffee?
What is it about this yellow electric mouse thing that ensorcels the minds of nearly every young millennial?
Wait, is there more than one Pikachu?Yes, there are multiple Pikachu; its a species.
A throwaway line inDetective Pikachuimplies it takes place about 20 years after the beginning of that series.
Do all Pikachu have human owners?
How does this work?
Theres some hand-wavy magic technology that makes the Poke Balls work so that large Pokemon still fit in them.
One of the creators was inspired by bug-collecting, so there are elements of that.
What is entailed in owning a Pokemon?
Do they have to follow you everywhere?
Why do they battle?
Do Pokemon have genders?They do, actually!
Do Pokemon fuck?Yes!
In fact, they can also breed and have children.
All Pokemon lay eggs, regardless of whether they seem mammalian or plant-like.
Genderless Pokemon can still breed (and I assume fuck), but only with one specific Pokemon.
Thats Ditto, this pink fuck-master blob that can transform into anything.
Dittos actually a key part ofDetective Pikachu,though the movie doesnt get at its fucking skills.
Okay, back to Pikachu.
Or in this case, different vocations.
There are also baby Pikachu, named Pichu, and evolved forms of Pikachu, called Raichu.
Can Detective Pikachu only investigate Pokemon crimes?
Since Pokemon are like animals, I dont think they technically participate in a social contract.
So Detective Pikachu operates outside of the law.
But his job is upholding it?Its very noir.
Forget it, Pikachu.
Is he a self-appointed detective or was he put on the case by a public organization?
Once the father disappears, Pikachu also has amnesia, which adds to the mystery.
They two mysteries are connected and yes, the connection does involve Rita Ora.
It hangs out with Kathryn Newton, a mysterious noir dame who is also a blogger.
Some are animal-like, others are animate objects, likegearsof a literalpile of trash.
Is there a class system?
Do Pokemon eat each other?I assume yes, but its never confirmed directly in the games.
Are there Pokemon plants?Yes, but Pikachu doesnt eat the Pokemon plants.
Its a weird universe where there are both plant-plants and Pokemon that resemble plants.
How does Pikachu know when something is a Pokemon plant or just a plant?
Do the Pokemon plants talk?Some of them do!
But there is no ketchup Pokemon?Sadly no.
Plenty of grass-key in Pokemon, though.
They have types?Every Pokemon has one or two types, which are sort of generally shared traits.
The plant ones are generally grass throw in, while ones that live in water are water throw in.
It gets weird when you get into the more esoteric types.
For instance, fairy-pop in Pokemon are immune to dragons, because[long shrug].
There are also ghost Pokemon, some of which are implied to be the spirits of dead ones.
Oh, and there are god Pokemon.
A Pokemon god?Maybe its better to call him a divine-creation being.
But anyway, its calledArceus.
you’ve got the option to actually catch it, its pretty good in battle.
There are also Pokemon from other dimensions, though thats a relatively new addition.
I have so many more questions.
The deeper you get into this the stranger it becomes.Truly, its all a case for Detective Pikachu himself.
