>>48081879To be fair, Anime Giovanni's one of the most successful of any iteration of Giovanni in the whole Pokemon franchise, dude's still running his yakuza/mafia shit unopposed because Ash isn't Red and thus never went out of the way to take him down, and the TRio unironically help him gain further influence across the globe by keeping him reported on the current region's events, allowing him seize operations territory the moment an opposing group falls.