>>56630889I think there's some confusion here, let me go over it clearly.
This is a meeting between two different teams. Game Freak(GF), and staff from The Pokemon Company(TPC). GF are the game developers. They sent people like Sugimori, a supervisor for Pokemon games and brand; Iwao, a director and game designer for the games; Matsushima, another OG from 1993 who supervises the writing and world building in Pokemon and has been in-charge of such things in every game; Matsumiya, THE main story writer for nearly every mainline Pokemon games. These are the people on the same side. They're sitting with Iwao, complaining about the bad adaptation story. The guys deciding everything in Pokemon games are the ones bashing the story of this adaptation. When Iwao said
>Honestly, I want to know what the scriptwriters think about our feedback, rather than the current TPC staff. The staff can only say 'we will improve,' so I want to know what the writers truly think.He isn't referring to any of the game's staff. They're right there with him, agreeing with him. As he mentioned here, they're talking about TPC.
TPC is the name for Game Freak, Creatures Inc. and Nintendo join venture as the brand managers of Pokemon. They're largely involved in marketing, merchandise, movies, TV shows and so on. They're not the game developers, and don't have any say in how those games are developed. TPC is trying to make this new anime, and its story sucks, so the GF staff is telling them this is retarded. Throughout the entire meeting, the TPC staff listens to and obeys GF commands. After the TPC staff is gone, and only GF staff remains, they have this conversation
>>56602997 that you see here. When the final product wasn't to GF's satisfactory standards, they canceled it.
No one here is complaining about the games' writing. The guys who write, direct, design and illustrate the games are the ones complaining. They're the ones writing the games. They're complaining about the adaptation.
