>>53765962Cope meme or not, Pocket Monsters as a premise began with that very idea as its foundation. So I guess you could say this whole franchise is a cope meme from the ground up, from day one.
Yeah Satoshi Tajiri had some funny ideas about pet ownership. But I admit even as a small kid I liked putting spiders or bugs in the same jar to see if they'd fight. Leave it to Japan to turn something kinda morbid into something bright and cute, and sell it to the world.
