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“What makes Pokémon at once a container of the past and a medium for millennial relation-building are the pocket monsters themselves: creatures that border between the practical, everyday, capitalistic and the fantastic, extraordinary, communitarian.”- Anne Allison, ''Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination'' <ref name="Millennial Monsters"> Anne Allison, ''Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).</ref>
“What makes Pokémon at once a container of the past and a medium for millennial relation-building are the pocket monsters themselves: creatures that border between the practical, everyday, capitalistic and the fantastic, extraordinary, communitarian.”- Anne Allison, ''Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination'' <ref name="Millennial Monsters"> Anne Allison, ''Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).</ref>
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What is constant to the series, though? That is something media archeology doesn’t need to shine the light on. No matter what the future holds, at the core of Pokémon is the simplest of concepts: a coming of age through an epic quest, bonds of companionship, challenge and discovery, and the acquisition of knowledge. As long as Pokémon core series games continue to encourage us to be the very best, they will always continue to be cherished by its fans, and I welcome whatever innovations frame these age-old concepts in a new light.
What is constant to the series, though? That is something media archeology doesn’t need to shine the light on. No matter what the future holds, at the core of Pokémon is the simplest of concepts: a coming of age through an epic quest, bonds of companionship, challenge and discovery, and the acquisition of knowledge. As long as Pokémon core series games continue to encourage us to be the very best, they will always continue to be cherished by its fans, and I welcome whatever innovations frame these age-old concepts in a new light.


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