>>57784674Modern Pokémon merchandising summed up in one image.
To the left, the starters of the latest games and whoever is being shilled alongside them in the weekly tv anime with slight amounts of KANTOOOOO.
To the right, KANTOOOOO and whichever shillmon between then and now that's insanely popular enough to be considered safe and marketable without risking any shakeup in corporate's profit line.