If anything, Pokemon is as anti-woke as they come
My dude, have you ever seen S/V? They are woke alright, they signed the deal with the devil just like Capcom did and are going to run the franchise to the ground. The Japanese already hate the new body type/ugly characters nonsense and they're not keen on the LGBT pandering/niggers either. It's going to get worse in every game going forward.
Also, Black and White says: GOMMUNISM BAD!
What? That game literally only took place in New York because Masuda wanted to be a star in Broadway and he failed. The bad guys are just PETA and nothing else, with a little bit of edge because the franchise was going thru a phase at that point.
Also, that was the first game where you had a race mixed couple and the woman was the pants wearer in the relationship, people used to joke about that back when the game came out. If anything, B/W was where proto-wokeness started and XY amplified it by drowning Kalos in niggers(I can't stress this enough, I think 50% of all NPCs in that game are black). Gen 7 took place in Alola so all the non whites were not out of place(and both American regions are ironically enough still whiter than Euro regions), it helped that the game started to resemble the "quality" of older gens at times, with biggest complaints being the long cutscenes.
I want to say that Gen 8 was where it became obvious, but if it was, it was completely buried beneath other issues, like dexit, horrific optimization, poor animations, horrible story and characters ect.
Gen 9 was where it could no longer be ignored, and that's where we are today.
Pokemon was always a children's franchise, it was never "based" and it was pandering to what could be considered the "woke" crowd for majority of it's life cycle now. I don't know where you got this idea that Pokemon ever had some sort of grand ethos other than "buy 2 gameboys and two games and don't forget that transfer cable if you want all the pokemon!". This is the only consistent idea the entire franchise had, since it was always about milking kids dry even back in first gen, under the guise of "playing with friends". Bad guys were always flat and two dimensional, stories were always written for kids or felt like they were written by someone on a mental level of a child and there were never any themes or ideas deeper than a puddle. It's baby's first RPG and you see what you wanted to see in these games.
The games don't have any philosophical takes or any anti-communist messages. They give you a yellow rat that goes "Pika Pi!" and shoots lightning out of it's cheeks. You're not supposed to dig into that and write a youtube video essay, you're supposed to have fun and immerse yourself in the world. It's a power fantasy for kids, and that comes with plot holes that come for those with an incomplete view of the world: Why are kids going unsupervised on cross-country trips? Why are they allowed to command large dragons or legendary beasts? Why are all adults complete morons and kids have to save the day? Why is every criminal group goon a saturday morning villain, complete with matching evil uniforms? How are you supposed to fit a giant animal within a small ball and how does uploading it or downloading it from a PC even work? Why does nobody ever use a GUN in those games when the anime confirmed they exist?
Who cares. Kids certainly don't, they probably bash A to skip all the dialogue because they just want to see the numbers on their Pokemon go up and see what the next town has in store for them. You, as an adult, are not a target audience and never will be, this is a universe that only makes sense if you're 12.
And most importantly of all, what is the zeitgeist of all modern culture, especially one that targets kids? You guessed it, make it woke to convert them into the cathedral as early as possible. TPC seems to agree since it will make them more money, they've been blathering on about diversity and all the other talking points for quite some time before S/V came out with an ESG seal of approval
