The values
- Interview non answers: 9
- Of which joke round: (Ash in game universe)
- Staff rulings on record: 1
- Staff ruling: Matsumiya timeline tweet 7 May 2014, later deleted
- Corporate rulings: 0
- Rulings in in game text: yes (e.g. ORAS parallel worlds; Pokedex food entries)
Some detail is too fine to show here; it is kept in the trainer’s notes.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- EstimateCanon-question census: rulings against non-answers, 2016-2026
- ReportedMasuda ash in game universe, GI interview, 24 October 2019
- EstimateGame Freak staff timeline statement (2014 tweet), later deleted, tweet 7 May 2014; reported 18 December 2016
- EstimateWhat the vagueness demonstrably protects: first-party decisions where setting yields to product, 1997-2026
- ReportedAnime origin of pikachu face decision, GI interview, 17 August 2017
- ReportedYuyama on parallel elements in film 20 (2017), 23 July 2017
Show the working
- nine non-answers retained, relabelled
- add as the single staff ruling (withdrawn). 's six accepted divergences split into 4 with Game Freak/director statements (..7, /15) and 2 resting on a 2026 book excerpt