After being fooled by Sun and Moon, and then fooled twice by Sword and Shield, I spent a lot of time considering this on my own. Pocket Monsters is a very Japanese franchise and nobody even expected it to succeed in the west. It will live on in Japan in some capacity, but be withdrawn from the west. After that, when it does fade away,
>>54121033basically this. I say that about MtG a lot. Tajiri is long divorced from the games, and the people who grew up with the early generations will all die, and the franchise along with it.
Optimistically, I would prefer
>>54120990>People in the future will study ancient Pokémon like people study Greek godsImagine the legend of a mafia too big to be taken care of legally, it's hands in every part of the machinations of a country. The organisation is so rich under Madame Boss, that it funds the equivalent of John Hammond's biological preserve, except it's Dr. Fuji whose child died and endeavors only to revive her. Funded Fuji brings back the equivalent of not only dinosaurs but also supposed coelacanth, dodo, Loch Ness Monster, sasquatch, etc among other fake genetic mutants of lore and even new gene-spliced inventions. In the news, Fuji dies mysteriously, but we know it's the clone of Mew, which he was pursuing too deeply in order to reanimate his deceased daughter.
Decades later, Giovanni is an adult and Madame Boss is gone. The monsters have escaped and some have become part of the natural world, and even daily life. There are even sports and companies which use them. Through the corrupt sports league, a young monster tamer rises through the ranks to earn the highest coveted title, and in the process dismantles the mafia using their own genetic mutants against them. A new world opens up, sakoku is removed, and trade expands beyond the isolationist borders.
