>>1624457
>schizo
In other words, "conspiracy theorizing"? You don't have to look far the way
>>1624811 believes one must to see what I'm saying: at the beginning of the series, as it is now, Pikachu (at least once the anime catapulted it to such a position) was the face of the series--but Charizard and its kind were never far from the spotlight; nowadays, TPC sells games and products that promote Pikachu and
Eevee--but nothing about the latter's evolutions...unless they're to be sold as stuffed animals.
>the shift isn't even feminine
But to whom were those stuffed animals offered? The games that present Pokémon as cuddly pets, no matter how powerful or potentially dangerous they are (e.g., Dragonite, despite its famous natural benevolence)--to whom are they meant to appeal? Even in Gen IV, Hearthome City's Amity Square pet walks were only available to the kind of Pokémon suitable for such marketing--now, it extends to all of them through things like Sleep. Why?
>it's faggy
What do you mean by that, then? Did faggotry somehow, at some point, stop meaning "effeminacy"?
>it's a parody of femininity
"Parody" or not, TPC still plays it straight in its offerings--it's presented to the audience with the expectation that it be accepted as-is, not mocked as some kind of caricature. Do the games/products signal the audience to view their contents and ridicule it, as a break from the "actual" material the series is known for? Or is
that the intended material?
>Fairy and Alola were featured in the 3rd Pokemon movie in the girl's picture book all the way back in 2000
I remember that movie, having gone to see it--it was indeed the last Pokémon movie I went to see--but while (given the subject of the movie)
fairies could have been discussed, I do not remember the Fairy-type nor Alola being broached, nor do I remember any discussion about any sort of hinting at any point since. You'd have to prove that one.
That being said, and since we're on the topic of olden days, do you not see the difference between Digimon and Pokémon? Yet these two IPs came into being at roughly the same time. Why do you think the monsters of Digimon have remained the same, if not having become even more appealing to a masculine audience, while Pokémon has deteriorated into what it is today?
>>1624480
Fairy being effective against Dragons has to do with some stories portrayed these species as "good or evil" and "holy vs devil".
This is one of the concepts I immediately thought of when I first heard of the Fairy-type. It doesn't contradict anything I said, however--rather, it corroborates my point. You don't abase the things you wish to promote.