>>56790251It also doesn't help that the Pokemon anime was conceived as a 22 minute commercial first and foremost, so being genuinely entertaining was never the intention in the first place, especially once Pokemania happened and told everyone involved with the brand "this is your life now, get used to it if you want to keep raking in that global profit."
And then instead of getting OVAs that allow them to explore the franchise in a more genuine context, we got movies built off of the anime, and due to the sheer success of those movies, it polluted their view of animated media so badly that every animated project would ultimately be some kind of commercial rather than a passion project that seeks to draw out the potential of the Pokemon world and its inhabitants.
