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7/14/2025, 9:49:52 AM
>>57997315
People keep talking about how basing it on Detective Pikachu was a shit idea but it kind of is the best they could have done.
The games themselves provide you with essentially zero compelling characters and the anime isn't faring much better, so you'd essentially be relying on the Pokemon to carry the film.
Problem is Pokemon don't talk, so you can't have a Pokemon character.
Detective Pikachu really was their best shot because it let them have Pikachu as a main character without raising any eyebrows.
Maybe PMD could have worked but without the live action humans aspect it'd be a lot harder to justify the movie's existence in comparison to the plethora of animated Pokemon films that exist already.
As for why Detective Pikachu didn't spawn a franchise? Well the movie ends pretty conclusively, I doubt many people wanna watch a sequel with a human Ryan Reynolds as the main character.
People keep talking about how basing it on Detective Pikachu was a shit idea but it kind of is the best they could have done.
The games themselves provide you with essentially zero compelling characters and the anime isn't faring much better, so you'd essentially be relying on the Pokemon to carry the film.
Problem is Pokemon don't talk, so you can't have a Pokemon character.
Detective Pikachu really was their best shot because it let them have Pikachu as a main character without raising any eyebrows.
Maybe PMD could have worked but without the live action humans aspect it'd be a lot harder to justify the movie's existence in comparison to the plethora of animated Pokemon films that exist already.
As for why Detective Pikachu didn't spawn a franchise? Well the movie ends pretty conclusively, I doubt many people wanna watch a sequel with a human Ryan Reynolds as the main character.
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