685 kids had seizures so the best pokemon movies could exist.
>Takeshi Shudo was writing the first movie when this came out
>kids spaz
>tpc running around like chickens with their heads cut off
>so preoccupied with the fallout that they didn't provide any oversight for Shudo
>he just wrote whatever the fuck he wanted, which is why the film is so much darker than the anime
>after the movie became a smash hit Shudo was basically given free reign over the next two movies
>he even made up his own pokemon for the second movie, which was later added into gen 2 by GF, that pokemon was Lugia.
Say thank you to Mr.Polygon for saving the series.
