>>51083472>>51084522>This edit just became very relevantAnd she still is in so much as Kanto IS the brand and therefore the Kanto part of the anime is special. The irony is that the anime and TCG initially did so much of Pokemania's heavy lifting and featured in the marketing, but since Misty was a nobody in the games the source material eventually had to leave her behind, before the games caught on to the idea of reoccurring characters.
