>>56800580>Pokemon was never good.Eh, as a monster tamer it landed on the absolute perfect formula for the genre being simple to get into while not having overly complicated methods of obtaining a monster like most other games at the time. Not to mention recruitment was quick and easy, the idea of a pokeball was genius.
But that's the real problem, because pokemon landed on the perfect formula there's not much they can do with the series other than minor QoL changes from time to time.
>Look no further than the fact the anime defined PokemaniaCommon misconception, in the west the anime sparked it yes but it was the games that dominated playgrounds and after school friend groups with peoole buying link cables for the first time just to play together.
Not to mention in Japan Pokemania was explicitly sparked by Mew.
