>>54545038it is a safe, bright, colorful and kid friendly franchise, and it has had many years of merch, TV, comics and video games to build a fandom around. it is influenced by Japanese culture but heavily westernized. it also pushes memorization of numbers and categorization of creatures, all with predictable behaviors or characteristics, and most of the human characters are questionably young looking and innocent. it has all the hallmarks of a platform that would 100% draw in people with autism and keep them. and you can take these rules that I just came up with on the spot and apply most of them them to pretty much anything else autistic people get autistic about, like Sonic, Undertale, Mario, Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Paw Patrol, Hello Kitty...
