Nintendo’s Pokémon series has had a powerful grip on pop culture for decades, and it’s doubtful to change anytime soon.
Pokémon bids farewell to a legend next week. In Japan, the final episode of the two-and-a-half-decade-old Pokémon anime to star Ash Ketchum (or Satoshi, as he’s known over there) will broadcast, paving the way for a new series.
Ash Ketchum has been such an important part of the Pokémon franchise that the news of his retiring from the popular anime felt
Late last year, the Pokémon Company shocked the world with the announcement that Satoshi—better known in the west as Ash Ketchum—would be bowing out as the enduring star of the long-running Pokémon anime.