>>47615470Old writer and also lore change. Though they kinda go into each other. I assume you know the writer for Kanto and Johto had a different sometimes edgy lore interpretation of the world. Even his novelizations make it more crapsack like the league being kinda douchey to leaders.
This also ties in to old lore too since a lot of things wew thought was anime only was mentioned in that recently leaked dex book. Simply put the mon world was ours jut with mons in it and so had the same problems ours did. Yeah it follows Ash's fun journey but has the same issues. But once it got popular they sanitized it down and made it more fantasy. Hence why its all clean and bubbly and no one dies or gets hurt.
