>>58676120>Lost himself on his own depression sauce and wanted to make everyone and everything as miserable as he was.It's not even that dark/depressing, just grounded and realistic if a bit on the cynical side. There are way more brutal examples in children's media.
>Something dark, edgy and miserable is just not Pokemon and will never be so.I don't think it should go full grim darkwood, but I don't think it should be sanitized, saccharine safeslop either.
Pokemon before becoming zombified was originally a coming-of-age story. And any good coming-of-age story doesn't pull punches trying to protect children's naiveté. At its core, a coming-of-age story is about children learning that the world is less than perfect and growing in response to that. If you always try to shelter kids from that sort of thing, then you end up with a generation of manchildren with unrealistic ideas about the world.
Reading this thread and others like it, I get the impression that some /vp/anons are already like that, dismissing Shudo's ideas out of hand just because it's not 24/7 hugs and rainbows. They don't want the anime or games to have anything that might make someone uncomfortable or shatter their overly optimistic ideas about the world. Maybe because they never came to terms with those things themselves. Or maybe they're just used to the sanitized corposlop that Pokemon has become. Who knows.
But in any case, I want to stress to anons reading this that edginess in itself is not a bad thing and shouldn't be discounted with some half-hearted excuse like "it's for kids." Think about consonance and dissonance in music. Too much dissonance makes a song unlistenable, but too much consonance makes it boring and sterile. The two are meant to complement each other and elevate the work as a whole. Like an anon earlier in the thread said, the dark, cynical backdrop is there to make the warm, heartfelt moments stand out and shine that much brighter.
