Reflections on Pokemon Day Presents 2021: As time goes by, I find more and more that I am growing distant from the Pokemon Franchise in general. Each pre-release hype season has become less intense and less substantive, the titles have been good but not great, and the fact of the matter is that the Pokemon series is growing within its own commercial sphere, while I am belatedly growing out of it. This is not a lament, I always knew that at some point I would have to relate to Pokemon with more ambivalence than I ever did in my childhood or youth. Truth be told, this late coming development has not been prompted by the disappointing content GF has put out in the last 5 or so years, but rather the fact that no matter how good the content they delivered would have been, I was growing away from Pokemon despite myself. In a sense I am not sad about this, after all, this growing apart will by no means be total. I will almost certainly buy Pokemon Legends Arceus and whatever the next main