It prints money regardless of quality and the three company ownership of the Pokemon IP that's set up keeps them from being able to exert that level of oversight.
Because Pokemon is the biggest media franchise in the world. Not a video game franchise, not a Japanese brand, the best entertainment franchise in the world. Bigger than Disney, bigger than Star Wars. They quite literally don't need to do anything but sit back and let them print money. Quality doesn't matter, it will always make money, Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet proved that once and for all.
They gave the black guy a Scrafty as his ace? What are his other Pokemon, Jynx, Blaziken and Rillaboom?Here is the mega for black guy's scrafty
That's right, it is an "urban youth" in klan robes, or a balaclava like the one a robber or a terrorist would wear. Real classy.
BTW his name is based off "virgin" in certain languages. Buck status?
Reading up, she's also the one who is on the Holocaster, (I just now realized how close that is to Holocaust and now I can't unsee it), the propaganda arm of Team Flare. I never realized we'd seen her before, I just assumed when I got to the Elite Four she was a random Team Flare admin I'd never seen before who for some reason wasn't present when all the plot went down and was salty, but resigned about its defeat.
Holy shit, that's what it really looks like!?But why would you put wings on its head!? THIS SO DUMB!
This series is so fucked
I'm sorry, did you think Pokemon could be healed fully from injuries that would lead to literal death in an instant, but not that each human has a bail out system installed to digitize their bodies and teleport them to the nearest pokemon center at the first sign of impending doom?
Gotta hit all those checkboxes in the [current year].
Pokemon fans have always bitched about how digimon is a ripoff of pokemon, but that’s a halfwit mindset. While TPCI has been pushing slop, digimon’s had to become more creative over the years. Bandai’s had to put in more work over the last few years and it’s begun to show in a tortoise and the hare sort of way.
There is rumors that he could be immortal like AZ now, due to X's plot revolving around gaining eternal life. There is also the Team Flare symbol on the gamer chair, but it's white instead of red. Neo-Team Flare, ala Black White 2? Probably, Gamefreak can't write a new story to save their lives, everything has to be rehashed a million times.
This right here is what Lysandre was trying to prevent
The bucks have been broken
This is just an excuse for me to sperg about the Pokemon Special manga, but I thought it funny you said that as a joke because the manga actually had that as a plot point unironically. There's a plot twist about halfway through the XY arc where it turns out that Team Flare is able to so easily get away with things because they have many supporters in high places in society such as politicians and CEOs, who are all on board with Lysandre's whole talk about making resources more sustainable by wiping out the riffraff of society to reduce population. Team Flare even has complete control of traditional media in Kalos, allowing them to manipulate the news to hide their activities from the public and smear and frame those that find out and oppose them.
This wouldn't even be the first time corrupt politicans were part of the game's main story. Both Orre games had this as part of their plotpoint too, with the mayor in Colosseum being part of Cipher and intentionally keeping your investigation going in circles while conveniently helping the thugs get what they want, meanwhile in Gale of Darkness one of the admins is a senator who is implied to not just control the same city as in Colosseum now but also sway what makes up this universe's local government in Cipher's favor. It is also implied that one of the reasons that the terrorist attack at the start never gets much traction or police investigation is because he is keeping things under wraps, hell it might be the reason why the whole region is so lawless in the first place. You can do so much with this kind of storytelling, but instead we get the same cookie cutter stories every single year with the mainline games.
I hope his shiny form is Red and I can name him Grand Wizard Scrafty.
