>>8693906The official manga for the game protags, Pokemon Adventures/Special, has its moments, a lot..
The whole franchise should have become like this, but Gamefreak had to change for the global market at this time to generate sales from the younger audience, you see in the first generation games many trainer sprites still own whips, because Pokemon originally never had listen to their trainer's orders right after getting caught, they had to be trained to do so, also there were some influence from demonic relationships from Megami Tensei, up to this day Pokemon get still digitalized and summoned by opening their "banishment" balls.
