It's a huge pity that we rarely get to hear any stories of justice in Japanese animation and comics. Why is there no justice in Japanese comics and animation? Because of the lack of sympathy or harmony between the nobility and the commoners, the upper class and the lower class. Unfortunately, the lack of success in the popular revolutions throughout Japanese history may have destroyed all hopes of transforming Japanese society into a fair and just society.
The Pokemon TV series is definitely a textbook example of that lack of justice. The people who worked on the Pokemon TV series did not want to give Gary and Ritchie any real comeuppance for all the wrongs they did to Ash. The reason for that? Not only was Ash's namesake Satoshi Tajiri an outsider, but giving Gary and Ritchie any severe comeuppances whatsoever would have been grave insults to Shigeru Miyamoto and the late Hiroshi Yamauchi respectively as well. This unacceptable injustice will not be tolerated. Even if Satoshi Tajiri was secretly a communist sympathizer, Nintendo looking down on him is unforgivable.
At the end of the day, the people who are calling for a boycott of Nintendo may have been right all along...
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