>>56437366>wide variety of designs to make porn of, ranging from straight-up animals to coombait to masculine Pokemon to feminine Pokemon, to the various trainers and gym leaders>most Pokemon don't have set personalities, meaning people can make OCs out of them more easily and legit autists with retard money can buy tons of art>hugely popular and influential media franchise in general, #1 of all time, IIRC>has been around for like 30 years now, so there's tons of time for there to be art of it, and time for people to get unhealthily attached to the franchise>has a wide range of media for people to base their shit off of, like the long-running anime, the OVAs, the movies, the games, the comics, the spinoff games, games on every platform including phones>>56437645One thing I've noticed over the years is that blank slates and "template-friendly" designs do a great job at developing huge fanbases.
Digimon doesn't do this; most Digimon are basically "characters" (often with set personalities and skills, too) rather than just a species, so every Digimon gets their own separate fanbase and the end result is a ton of tiny-ass little cliques that don't really interact with each other much like how a popular gacha game might have fans of specific characters or fans of several, but nobody really gives a fuck about the game or the franchise that the game belongs to.
In Pokemon, every Pokemon is a blank slate. Is it a boy? Is it a girl?
Is it a pet? A friend? A co-worker? A tool?
Maybe it's a total cunt, maybe it's super nice.
Ash's Pikachu is vastly different than that rando Pikachu or THAT rando Pikachu or those Cosplay Pikachu in both moves and personality.
Is that Lopunny a total flirt, or a kickboxer? That Machamp is doing construction work, while THAT Machamp is snapping Pokemon like twigs in a battles.
The flexibility allows people to more easily turn them into OCs or as nameless sex toys in lewd art.
