>>39480373our societies won't last forever, but pokemon won't end because it ran out of steam. It'll end because of something stupid. a war ruining japan, or global resource shortage plunging humanity into a time that something like 'a cartoon media franchise' doesn't really exist again. Until then, it's just going to gradually become more and more broad and watered-down, with a wider variety of less inspired goods, until it's just a brand with the niche of 'cute creatures for kids' with no particular goal, focus, or central product. Like disney, once being about 'mickey mouse and similar cartoons', and now just 'family media.'