Why did they choose such an unpopular character to be the face of the franchise?

Why did they choose such an unpopular character to be the face of the franchise?

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>wasn't alive during pokemania

>t. Born after 2000

>unpopular
he still is the most popular character with misty and brock

He's not though, Pikachu is. The only reason Ash is still around is because Pikachu is his pokemon.

>Misty
Nobody really likes her other than normalfags that haven't touched the franchise in 20 years, and they only like her because she's the only female character they even know who is.

Pikachu has been carrying the shitty anime on his back for the past 20 years, nobody gives a fuck about Ash anymore.

90% of the fandom is casuals lol. Like what the fuck are you even talking about?

who should be the face of the franchise instead?

These people aren't "the fandom", they're people that were "the fandom" 20 years ago. They don't give a shit about Pokemon except "I liked that cartoon with Ash Brock and Misty as a kid" and probably don't even know what a Lucario is.

This but unironically. Most casuals only know of Pikachu, Charizard and Mewtwo. Maybe Bulbasaur, Jigglypuff and Squirtle as well

Most "casuals" know more then that lol. Fags always push this meme because they are ass blasted that gen 1 pokemon/characters are more popular then the stuff they like. So they create this caricature of what the casual Pokemon fan is.

Because he is too popular.

>such an unpopular character
Uh..

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pretty pathetic numbers for the protagonist with 1000+ episodes

Cope

>misty
nobody gives a shit about misty anymore, Serena and dawn have by far passed her in popularity. Not even nips give a shit about her anymore.

This

No one cares about Dawn or Serena. Nobody over the age of 12 cares about the anime anymore even if they are fans of franchise. Like Dawn’s return episode didn’t even crack top 10. No one gives a shit about her.

>unpopular
I know you people don’t understand the concept of projecting but, just because you don’t like something doesn’t make that the case for everyone

This fuckers are wrong
This one is the true answer