PokéTsume sounds like dreary corporate propaganda, like when your boss keeps comparing your Agile software dev team to a sports team. Pokémon was inherently ind

PokéTsume sounds like dreary corporate propaganda, like when your boss keeps comparing your Agile software dev team to a sports team. Pokémon was inherently individualist adventure fantasy for kids, because kids are the last people who can be themselves in Japan[0]. Even the famous song "Omoide wa Okkusenman"[1] deals with this as a theme: the freewheeling individualism of childhood compared with the rat race of adult life. PokéTsume is like "Plug yourself into the system and be a good little corporate drone, and you'll have adventures just as fun as those in Pokémon!" Which is just... no. They are not the same. Everybody being good little drones is why Japanese society has stagnated. [0] Japanese anime and manga often have a theme of kids being powerful, but they lose their powers upon reaching adulthood with an implicit expectation that they "set all that aside" and become productive members of society. [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsj0mY13t9s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsj0mY13t9s