>>509213>>509216To be fair, Pokémon has always been bigger in Japan, and especially every generation that isn't the first one is much more popular over there than in any other country. Outside of Japan, people mostly only know about Gen 1 pokémon and whatever the most shilled mon of the current generation is (and it'll be forgotten in 2 gens).
>>509216Exactly, to them Pokémon was just a fad in the late 90s. At least there's some toy companies that sell merch of pokémon from all gens, pic related. I always find figures like these at the video game section or game-based toy section at the supermarket and in department stores, and some plushies of a variety of cute pokémon (though these are expensive as fuck).
>>509218Even my former bosses would play that shit during work and they were the most obnoxious fucking kind of normie you could imagine.
>>507664NTA but I love Ditto in its base form! Cute pink slime creature.