>>40466023Except they did, RSE and ORAS (specially the latter) did so with Hashima island (abandoned Sea Mauville) while also commenting on karoshi on the same area.
Game Freak my have been mocking the campaing to make Hashima island an UNESCO heritage site when that island was full of Chinese and Korean slaves even native Japanese who worked in terrible conditions.
SM message about kids not being property of their parents (which Lillie basically spells out) may be intended to call out the fact that in Japan until recently kids were basically their parent's property and cutting ties with biological parents was very hard which is why so many children are stuck with terrible abusive parents and literally used as some kind of asset, and Japan doesn't like admitting they have a child abuse problem. USUM actually shows Lusamine saying she will never meddle with her children lives ever again and support from afar.
