Hi, what do you mean Alain is canon to the games?
Pokemon has ALWAYS played fast and loose with canon, fans split hairs infintely more than canon does. Enjoy your megaverse. Crossovers are canon and fun.
(Also, the English localizations being so disjointed and not commjnicating effectively means English-speaking fans miss out on easter eggs Japanese fans get. Looong before Satoshi (Ash) and Pikachu being in thr Sun & Moon demo, you also had things like Butler and Diane (from the Jirachi: Wishmaker movie!) casually showing up on Route 229 in Sinnoh with Mightyena and Kirlia...the game translators didn't recognize them so changed Butled's name to Felix.
Ash and Misty stumble into Hazel's world in Magical Pokemon Journey in the omake/extra stories.
Pokemon Masters is full of anime referendes (Iris talking about her Haxprus once being small enough to sit inside her hair, Gary describes his hometown of Pallet being way out in "the boonies" [given inaka could be translated a number of ways, like the countryside, the sticks, etc., it looks like whoever was translating caught the BW! anime reference and used the same term Trip did], the loading screen has a silhouette of Misty riding Starmie through water like she did in The Flame Pokemon-athon...)
People love praising Pokemom Special (Pokemom Adventures) while tearing down the anime, but the author watched the Pokemon anime to get a feel for the world...
It's all canon. Have fun.
You have permission to do as you like with these characters and this world forever, that is the whole entire point of it being so customizable (no two player teams are exactly alike!) and so many details left so vague: they want fans to be as creative as possible! It was in an the interview with Ohmura, I believe, where he refused to confirm or deny the popular fan theory (in Japan) that thr Subway Masters were 27 years old, because unless a detail is plot-relevant, it won't be brought up, because they want fans to be as creative as possible. No limits!



















