[All of the talk about learning by doing flew over Rei's head-- give him concrete data that he can add to his analyses, and then they can talk. But, this...]

I don't see why everyone keeps saying that. There's no way I'm going to know how to properly take care of a pokemon unless I study he data available first. Otherwise, Tama-san's going to get himself sick by eating too much or something that I can't even guess yet.