While Black and Blue is a mess of a fuck up, i must say one thing, its mechanically one of the better Pokémon knockoffs I've seen online...

still hate peta though...

Couldn't peta be sued for using the pokemon logo? If I were Nintendo I would probably do that.

parody is basically a free pass. Since it's making a statement it's protected by free speech.

It's not a parody when it's slander.

You "capture" them and make them "fight", so nothing false is said. It is hyperbole, perhaps immoral hyperbole, but exaggeration isn't illegal.

its slander when you take the main characters and say theyre evil bastards who hate their pokemon and dont care about them when the opposite is proved in the first episode :P

They take the symbiotic relationship of a Pokemon and its trainer and turn it into a parasitic one. That's slander.

I think in the eyes of the law, that's an unprovable opinion. I agree it's wrong, but PETA is safe. I'm of the opinion that punishable slander opposes free speech in general. You should be allowed to say whatever no matter how stupid/wrong/immoral it is, but the law limits slander to facts, which is close enough for me. The state of a fictional relationship isn't really up for debate in the first place. It's fiction. But, luckily, that means PETA can't do a goddamn thing about Pokemon either.

Well I think an exception should be made.

That'd set a precedent and mean that if someones opinion doesn't align with yours you could 'make an exception' to almost anything.