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>wanted to unironically like Pikachu again like I did as a child>rewatched the old series via the Twitch marathon>Ash's Pikachu stopped having an interesting personality sometime during season 4, seasons 1 through 3 were peak Pikachu>Pikachu's redesigns kept get uglier and uglier, along with the transition from pretty watercolor scenery to the shitty neon green computer animation kiddyshit>Pikachu is constantly shilled because of being the series' #1 mascot, making it completely common and boring>no one with any sense of taste says "Yeah, my favorite pokemon is Pikachu" without coming off like a total genwunner/normie that's only lying about caring about pokemon>game-wise, it's a shitmon that's outdone by other pokemon even within gen 1>the detective pikachu series is fucking terrible, and this is coming from an avid fan of the mystery/puzzle genreYellow rat has aged like milk.
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>Eevee is fun because it eventually evolves into one of its various cute evolutions>Eevee itself represents a child that hasn't chosen their path yet and wants to be everything but can't and just ends up being specialized at nothing/overall mediocre>boring poop brown color>really being pushed hard as the secondary mascot because of LGPE but it's clear people prefer PikachuI'm also sick of Nutto already but that's because we don't actually know jack shit about it.
