>>55587955Yeah, they sure as fuck were thinking of Pichu to fill out the Pika family back befooooooh wait. Yeah, nah they changed their tack COMPLETELY because Pikachu forced itself into the mascot position. And because the kids went SO fucking crazy for Pikachu and actual women were commenting on how cute it was, they went and scrapped any raichu evo to settle on a shitmon pre-evo instead. Because they stopped picking *their* creatures and started making it to suit the public. Sorry you had to find out the dirty secret of your childhood, but that's why you're an afterbirth. You think it somehow WASN'T different, despite being created under the same constraints as the shit today.
