>>53138879Are you? Pokémon makes stupid amounts of money. For TPC it would be a drop in the bucket to pay Bandai every so often just to keep the brand strong in America. Remember Yokai Watch? It was briefly more popular than Pokémon in Japan, so TPC snatched the developers and put them on Game Freak then Yokai Watch made radical changes that killed it. Pokémon Stadium? Developers snatched, last game was Battle Revolution. PMD? Explorers was acclaimed by fans and the anime specials shat on the ratings of the show but then PMD never got its own anime series and the next game was fucking Gates (this one is because Game Feak can only make money from the human characters due to an agreement they made with Nintendo back in Gen 1). Other companies do shit like this all the time, do you seriously believe Pokemon doesn't?