>>37237142Pokemon is a franchise that only deals in absolutes.
Either it's an absolute success and prints loadsamoney, or it's an absolute risk and they aren't going to take it.
Making a secondary anime could be a loss of profits if it doesn't succeed in hooking an audience as massive as the current one's, which is incredibly unlikely to begin with since there are far more children than there are teenagers or adults who will be willing to indulge in a Pokemon anime unless they're autistic shippers.