The Pokémon TV Show Is an Ode to Ecology

And you can’t tell me otherwise.

Graphic of a Pikachu among the flowers by author.

My most embarrassing trait is that I regularly watch the Pokémon series almost every day without fail. I wasn’t always like this — my habit began almost a year ago when I went to visit my cousins in Maryland. My cousin’s three year old demanded I watch Pokémon: Sun and Moon on Netflix with him and given how adorable he is, I naturally…