The real story of pokemon?

I just watched this youtube video and that got me to think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiY1kBWsmtc


What I have understood (not an expert on the subject) Pokemon might be based up on the Japanese old mythological lore about spirits (Yōkai?). (see: Spirited away and princess mononoke). Everything has a a spirit that can come to life. What if the pokemon are the old spirits living in a modern society.
Maybe the big conflict in the world of pokemon was that humans discovered that the spirits/gods where real and stared to live in a society with them.

The big question was where did they come from? Even though they posses powers of nature, should they be treated as gods? Maybe there was a conflict between humans what to do with them. destroy them, capture them or live with them. (basicly the current plot of legend of Korra).

After "the great war". The people who wanted to capture pokemon won, and created the big company who rules the world of pokemon. Every man was killed, and every child where used to be inspired to capture pokemon/spirits for science.
Where did all the normal animals go? shipped to factories to produce food for the people. One state, one production of food to everyone.

The reason there is so much organised crimes in the world, are the losers of the great war who went underground to fight their cause. Giovanni might have been a soldier of the people who wanted to destroy all the pokemon/spirits, and became a mafia leader after the war.

Maybe even Ash's father ended up joining a rebellion on his pokemon journey and has therefore no possibility to return home? The big question is: Has people the right to control nature and life? Did pokemon/spirits orgin in space?