>>55433652The entire point of the franchise was about the interaction between Pokémon and people. It’s in the name “pocket monsters” that it’d be about people catching and befriending strange monsters. Even Satoshi Tajiri talks about this in an interview about how he prefers seeing both Ash and Pikachu in the marketing instead of just the latter.
Turning it into a shitty furry isekai drama that kemonofags fap to edgy gore porn of misses the entire point. It’s fanfiction with a niche audience that makes more weird fanfiction
