Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1967932-20150902153043/@comment-26072045-20150903200250

ThePokémonGamer wrote:

OnlyOnTuesdays88 wrote:

ThePokémonGamer wrote: Vote for Ash Ketchum, guys. Don't vote for any of the Gravity Falls characters there. I don't see how a famous gaming/anime/manga franchise should be beaten by a small television franchise like Gravity Falls. Because it's a highly overrated series that's gone down in quality a whole lot over the years in a convoluted and inneffective attempt to please the masses? The anime went widescreen six years ago. Besides, its 850+ episode anime gives people a lot to watch on the series. It's not ineffective towards anything as clearly only people who are Nintendo fans (like me), a good portion of those people are Pokémon fans (like me), since the other three are Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda, these are the biggest Nintendo franchises. And don't get me wrong, I love Pokémon, as well as Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda.

About it being an ineffective attempt to please the masses, I think it's already "pleased the masses" as is because many people have fan sites about it, Pokémon Wikia, Bulbapedia, and Serebii combined have a lot of people who visit those sites. Also, there is the very popular Pocketmonsters.net, as well as PokéWiki, and Poképedia for those that speak German and French, respectively. There's also this site called Smogon, which is more for battling in Pokémon.

Here's a full list of the fan sites.

Basically, Pokémon is a successful franchise. Doesn't change the fact it's gone downhill. They made Rougela purple because they thought people associated with black face. They got rid of Takeshi because he had squinty eyes and people might think that's an Asian. They tried so hard to please the masses that the show's overall quality went down hill. I don't care if it has a lot of fans. It's still crap.