Yeaaah, 'pocket monsters' is kind of a misnomer. Veeeery few of 'em are actually pocket-sized. We're talkin' six-foot-long bugs and twenty-eight-foot long rock snakes and shit.

[ He chuckles. Six months has given him plenty of time to adjust to Johto and its inhabitants, and he's grown accustomed to a certain amount of suspension of disbelief in the meanwhile. He's looking forward to watching Yagyuu gape (in a dignified, subtle fashion, of course) at some of the region's more alarming natives. ]