The subject of real-world animals in the Pokémon world has always been a controversial one. It has never been made clear which kinds of animals exist in the Pokémon world, or what differences they have to Pokémon. However, there are certain instances in the Pokémon anime that show references to real-life animals, making fans speculate that at least a few species of them must exist in this world, or that they existed at some point.

A blog that belonged to Shudo Takeshi, a scriptwriter for the original Pokémon movies and the anime, contains a few entries that suggest Pokemon 3: The Movie: Entei – Spell of the Unown was originally intended to solve all of these mysteries and show the appearance of some animals, including a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The documents kept on Takeshi’s blog show that he clearly wanted to make the movie focus on the relationship between animals and Pokémon, answering fundamental questions about the Pokémon universe and its inhabitants. Takeshi had deliberately avoided including real-world animals in the Pokémon anime up until that point; according to him, the few instances in which they appeared in the show were simply mistakes made by the animators and are not considered canon.

Takeshi’s original idea for the movie was to base the plot around the discovery of an ancient Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. This finding would be the first time anybody in the Pokémon universe had ever seen a real-world animal, and it would lead to global curiosity over what the creature was and why its species became extinct. Before long, the Tyrannosaurus Rex’s skeleton would come back to life and escape, and a team of Pokémon trainers and researchers would attempt to catch it and study it more thoroughly. Through this, they would learn more about animals and the things that brought about their extinction. Animals were a third kind of creature, separate from humans and Pokémon, that existed in the Pokémon world several hundred years before. Records and photographs existed of ancient animals, but no living person had ever seen one. The exact reason they became extinct is not revealed in Takeshi’s blog.

The idea for this movie supposedly came from Takeshi’s desire to explore the origins of the Pokémon world and answer the question: “What kind of world am I in?” He spent several months developing a detailed script to pitch the movie, and the idea was well-received. But it was eventually rejected because executives believed that nobody would be interested in watching a movie about fossils and the origins of animals. Instead, the more familiar script for Pokémon 3 was chosen, focusing on the legendary Pokémon Entei.

You can read more about Takeshi’s blog entries here.

What do you guys think? Would you have liked to see the original movie? Are you a fan of Pokémon 3? Personally, I like Pokémon 3, but I’ve always been curious about the nature of animals in the Pokémon world and would have loved to see this movie explain everything.

Source: BulbaGarden (via Go Nintendo)

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