Chu Yu had always felt that the popularity of works like Pokemon and Doraemon depended entirely on time!
After all, the worldbuilding in the early stages of Pokemon hadn't even been fully developed, and the story was rather loose. Many of the interesting Pokemon didn't appear until later!
For elementary schoolers, perhaps the story was just enough to hold their interest. But Chu Yu's main fanbase wouldn't exactly refuse to watch it; many of them were simply planning to wait until more episodes had built up.
Chu Yu had still underestimated the market for children's anime in this world!
Although Chu Yu thought the early episodes of Pokemon and Doraemon were only so-so—the former relied mainly on its games, while the latter relied on its sheer volume of content—even so, both works had quickly become hits among elementary and middle schoolers after airing!
Pokemon's game was especially popular. If you went online to do missions and used voice chat with your teammates, chances were that the voices coming from the others would belong to little kids!
Elementary schoolers could barely understand works like Lelouch, Kenshin, and Attack on Titan. That was why works like Pleasant Goat, Boonie Bears, and Doraemon had become huge hits in the Parallel World!
Chu Yu knew perfectly well that, given time, Doraemon and Pokemon would definitely become hugely popular. But he hadn't expected children's anime in this world to be so far behind that it couldn't even withstand the early episodes of either series!
So, just a month after the two works had launched, both the anime and the game had already been propelled into the top five among the currently running animated series in Dragon Country by all those elementary and middle schoolers!
They were ranked below Naruto, Dragon Ball, and a romance anime