>>48058032You all miss Takeshi Shudo.
He wrote the original anime season, some of the first movies, now he is dead.
The anime could never again convey the sense of mistery, magic and discovery that this japanese novelist could. I am certain that the anime alone was the key factor sustaining the machine that was Pokémania in the West, it was the main marketing pillar. And it clearly changed when he stopped writing.
