>>49959185Pokemon isn't stale to anyone except jaded adults and contrarians, normalfags still adore it and Japanese Children are still feral creatures that can't get enough of Pokemon.
Detective Pikachu was too "different" for everyone's tastes and costed way too much to produce, the best option for profit would have been to remake M01 had they not already been doing that in CGI for M22.
M23 isn't something you refer to for an indicator of the state of the franchise. It only flopped because COVID forced a delay and scared everyone in Japan out of going to movie theaters, and the Pokemon Brand gave even less incentive to see the movie by distributing Zarude through other means.
