Pokémon ga Daisuki!
Prologue
Pokémon...The name given to the most mysterious family of creatures, with complex abilities, intricate personalities, and unique mental capacities, very little data has been collected of these magnificent creatures.
More astounding yet, the intimate interactions between humans and Pokémon have been traced back to the beginnings of human evolution. Since then, Pokémon have lived beside humankind, at times as work partners, and at others, as cooperative teammates.
However studies have shown that Pokémon develop more healthily through competitive interaction. For this reason, many humans, called 'Pokémon Trainers', befriend a large variety of these creatures and create teams. With these teams, trainers challenge one another and allow their Pokémon to battle the other teams' in order to strengthen their bonds as well as the trainer and the Pokémon, individually.
Many trainers' ultimate goal is challenging the world's most formidable team; the Champion. A victory against the Champion's team would greatly strengthen the victors' bond between each other. In addition to this, the victor and his team are pronounced the Champion, and win them a spot in the Pokémon Hall of Fame.
However as human nature will always be so, many have grown to treat Pokémon as tools necessary in achieving power and not as companions. It has been proved, by countless occurrences that Pokémon somehow sense this feeling in their trainer and develop poorly, causing illness, depression, and other mental problems.
On the other hand, Pokémon also acknowledge its trainer's faith and trust in his or her Pokémon as a dependable partner. This, in some way, enhances all of the Pokémon's abilities and even increases the Pokémon's life span.
Scientists have been studying this energy that develops during times of great closeness between a Pokémon and its trainer. According to them, when a Pokémon senses a sole devotion from its trainer to itself, or vice versa, a most wonderful thing takes place.