The popular Pokémon games, and related media including the anime and manga series and trading card game, were created for children. There is no denying that fact. Despite its origins as a children’s game and anime, Pokémon has a much wider appeal. Many of the people who were children when Pokémon was first created over 20 years ago still find themselves drawn to the world of Pokémon. Many of the original Pokémon fans are still hooked on the series, despite aging much more rapidly than the anime’s main character, Ash. Why are so many of the original Pokémon fans still following the series two decades later as grown adults?

Some adult Pokémon fans never left the series and continued to pick up the latest iteration of the games each time a new one was released. Others might have attempted to put aside childish things at some point in their adolescence, only to be inexplicably pulled back into by the series’ after years away. There are even some newer adult Pokémon fans who first started playing as adults.

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