>>56602997So basically, the old farts are thinking along the exact same lines as I have for ages. The Pokemon world has monsters existing alongside humans, and we predominantly experience that fictional world from the perspective of the humans, but even though marketing has increasingly put focus on the individual human characters and the most easily marketable monsters, as separate entities, the actual interesting part and the core fantasy of the Pokemon world is the bonds between humans and Pokemon (and it's not worth creating and telling stories with the Pokemon IP that focus too much on only the humans).
Though I think this goes both ways; I'm fascinated by the existence of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and it almost completely cutting out the human element in favor of a Pokemon PoV.
