The real story behind pokemon I stumbled across this today and lawled. It's a pretty hefty wall-o-text, so don't say you weren't warned. Essentially, this is the entire reasoning behind the Pokemon anime, and why things happen as they do. TLDR version: it's all one gigantic coma dream. Random Internet Hero wrote: Have you ever noticed that the pacing, tone and story development of Pokemon changes after Ash is hit by lightning in the early episodes, how Ash and his world were relatively normal until after the incident? I have a theory. The accident with the bike put Ash into a coma. Days later he was found and was hurried to the hospital and treated with heavy medications, which is why Team Rocket became less menacing. The medication took ef