>>40929899I don't think it's as black and white as people think. You can't blame one person when it comes to a franchise like Pokemon but that's easy so it's what most people do. While Masuda has his own issues this kind of decision is highly corporate so like Masuda said it probably was a bunch of higher ups like himself sitting in a room talking about what to do. It's a choice that's on multiple people and Masuda is just the public face taking all the blame. Similar to Turner. Turner is just one person on a team you can't really blame him for everything but he's the name people recognize most so he gets the blame. And Masuda certainly makes it worse because he makes up excuses instead of saying "no comment" or just telling the truth. He is a problem, he's just not the old problem.
It kind of sucks being on the outside when you're only given a fraction of the story. You'll never now the one absolute truth. Because there are problems here but I think there's a lot more layers to it and all the fandom can do is hypothesize, REEEE uncontrollably, or pathetically shill and none of it is actually productive.
