>>54310571Why, because Nintendo agreed to fund the first iteration, had not had high hopes for its impact and had watched as they almost failed to deliver before Game Boy EoS, only to then see it explode, kid's magazines getting 78,000 entries for just 20 giveaway Mews (where winners needed to send their cart to the magazine, to put Mew on game, then return to the winner)?
Anyone and their mother starts talking about a part 2, which only gets turned into a contract, when third parties start knocking requesting collaborations, pitching merch opportunities or otherwise looking to partner up to present a message. It was a very particular series of events that led us here and frankly, unless you were of that era, it's hard to explain how progressional it was. When it hit the west, it was fully formed. But in the 9 years between Tajiri starting work on the series genesis and it getting an EU release, it went through a very different birth and formative years in Japan, that allowed it to become the runaway worldwide success it did.
