>>38540672I think it'd be better suited for a short anime series, personally. But a movie could work if done right.
>>38544293The early manga is where people get all the "edge" from. Just the first two arcs featured an Arbok getting sliced in half, a Psyduck corpse, and a Dragonair nuking Vermillion City.
Gamefreak envisioned Pokemon to be dangerous creatures capable of some crazy shit. Look at Pokedex entries, hell look at where the stories and lore of the games went AFTER generation 1.
>Ho-Oh literally resurrecting three creatures from the dead>Groudon and Kyogre threatening to completely wreck Hoenn with extreme weather>Cyrus trying to remake the whole fucking universe with Dialga and Palkia>Ghetsis freezing big chunks of Unova because he's a power hungry asshole>Lysandre was literally /pol/ and wanted to straight up kill most of the world's population as he deemed most people to be parasites>Lusamine became so fucking obsessed with Ultra Beasts she fucked off to a lone corner in another bloody dimension just to merge with one and become a monster herselfBut nah, the occasional implied death and melodrama is TOTALLY too edgy for Pokemon. Look, I'm not saying PokeSpe is perfect. Far from it. But it fills a niche for people who want more serious stories set in a Pokemon universe. And I've had a fun time with it. Pic related made me tear up, I enjoyed that whole GSC arc more than anything I ever saw from the anime. The anime is too much of a cocktease for people like me.