Woah - never thought I'd see this thread again. I actually have never watched Pokemon and don't know anything about it. I was just bemused by the fact that it is a beginning reader book where the protagonist keeps being told to "Come out!" and when he finally does it's under a giant rainbow. This was on the shelf of the store where I worked at the time of the whole "Tinky-Winky is gay" scandal.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."