>>49320634The first Gen also had animals, real world locations, pervy old men and Team Rocket referring to themselves as actual gangsters. Death became a weirdly avoided topic up from Gens 3 til 6. And even with 6 it had to be implied half the time like they were testing the waters with EF Floette and AZ's backstory.
They've definitely been a lot more on the nose from Gen 7 onwards and Gen 1 can be considered an exception for the series' standards in a lot of ways, at least, from the initial years Masuda took over at least
