>>48204243Ash and Pikachu are the poster child’s for the animation division of The Pokémon Company. Pikachu wouldn’t be nearly as popular as it is without the anime.
People who ask for different protagonists in the anime do not understand marketing at all and that’s why they are in the positions they are in. Every Yu-Gi-Oh series after the original had worst ratings than the original, and when they did Dark Side of Dimensions, it got better reception than Arc-V which was airing at the time, and when it finally aired on TV, it got better ratings than Vrains. Why do you think we keep getting reboots of old shows and movies? Because as much as you hate to admit it, familiarity and nostalgia sells more than something new. You are more likely to make more money working for a McDonald’s than your own start up. Normies and the general audience do not give a single fuck about Victor, Brendan, and Lucas or watching their weekly adventures as opposed to Ash and Pikachu who they’ve grown up with.
