>>33062312Pikachu is popular in-verse, but its nowhere as popular and as well known as it is in our universe. In the pokemon world pikachu is popular and loved but its not a mascot like it it is to us. And mimikyu is essentially the "bad" version of that mascot, but that would only make sense for 1 mimikyu, not the whole in-verse species. You can easily say Charizard is as popular as pikachu but no variant mimikyu's exist so its whole creation is based off pikachu being popular in our universe and not the pokemon one, which makes no sense. I mean if you want it breaking the 4th wall just fucking say it.
