>>55317570I just remembered that Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon Go also had young adult protags. Makes me wonder why they went back to using kid protags gens 7 onward?
They already have data that most Pokémon fans are college age and over and would rather identify with older characters like Hilda and Serena.
But what's funny is when Serena was added to the anime, she was aged-down because they thought it would be weird for an older girl to tower over Ash and try to hit on him. Probably why Hilda was never in B/W anime.