>>53851102>You're supposed to leave before Oak even hands you a Pokemon.Anon, you do realise that if you use this as an argument it still goes against your original argument of gyms being the focus right? If anything it's still your player going out to explore on his own.
>Irrelevant, Of course its relevant, Ash is the main character.
>and didn't he become the best anyway recently?No because what a pokemon master is never actually comes up.
>Yet the entire point of the TCG was that it is a trading card GAMEAnd as with most TCGs, only a fraction of buyers actually play the game.
>Not even remotely on the same level as Western brainwashAgain, it's literally referring to the collection aspect of the game. If it were about battles then the slogan would have been
>Be the best!Or something like that.
>The main inspiration was some autistic bug collectorThis should have been the moment where you realised your argument didn't make sense.
