Pokemon was a psyop to generate future bio-chem engineers

Catalog all these "Pokemon", understand their "types" and how they interact, which "moves" are "super effective" against certain "types". They're just priming kids to develop, and adults to consider fondly, the same kind of competencies central to cataloging molecules and determining which other molecules they interact with, and how strongly.

Even battles are kinda like multi-stage chemical reactions.