Pokemon WI: Ash Ketchum gets a Clefairy from Professor Oak?

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I Know Clefairy was supposed to be the mascot of Pokemon franchise well as Clefairy was supposed to be Ash Ketchum's Starter. what if Ash Ketchum got a Clefairy that is from professor Oak?
I want to know the answer from some people.

Would Clefairy Actually talk well as other pokemons?


Would Clefairy Learn the moves from an gag manga or a clefairy's moveset in games?

Would Ash Ketchum be a girl or not?

but would it affect Yu-gi-oh or Digimon as well?

I've seen some threads in serebii forums that says clefairy was the original mascot of Pokemon.
 
There is a popular ongoing manga based somewhat on that premise. (Although the trainer there got a pikachu as well.)

I think, barring some changes in the anime storyline, that Pokemon would be the same basically. Clefairy may be more prominent in the advertising, but the games would overall be the same.
 
There is a popular ongoing manga based somewhat on that premise. (Although the trainer there got a pikachu as well.)

I think, barring some changes in the anime storyline, that Pokemon would be the same basically. Clefairy may be more prominent in the advertising, but the games would overall be the same.

I suppose the question that needs to be asked is whether or not Clefairy could have the same appeal as Pikachu? Its almost too mangaish (not a word, sorry) to really work outside of the manga/anime fans. I doubt we would see a Pokemon: Special White Edition!

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I suppose the question that needs to be asked is whether or not Clefairy could have the same appeal as Pikachu? Its almost too mangaish (not a word, sorry) to really work outside of the manga/anime fans. I doubt we would see a Pokemon: Special White Edition!

With Clefairy as the mascot, I can't see the anime series gaining the same popularity among young male viewers. If GameFreak does develop and release a "Special Clefairy edition" after Red/Blue, it probably doesn't sell too well because so much of the video-gaming public will unfairly brand it as a "girl's game." Consequently, with no successful Yellow version (or equivalent), I don't think they'll be releasing Crystal, Emerald, or Platinum in later generations.

Overall, I see a Pokemon series that's roughly the same as our reality, but slightly less profitable, since the "third editions" won't come out and the TV series won't have mainstream success.
 
With Clefairy as the mascot, I can't see the anime series gaining the same popularity among young male viewers. If GameFreak does develop and release a "Special Clefairy edition" after Red/Blue, it probably doesn't sell too well because so much of the video-gaming public will unfairly brand it as a "girl's game." Consequently, with no successful Yellow version (or equivalent), I don't think they'll be releasing Crystal, Emerald, or Platinum in later generations.

Overall, I see a Pokemon series that's roughly the same as our reality, but slightly less profitable, since the "third editions" won't come out and the TV series won't have mainstream success.

Pretty much dead on. The decision to give Ash a Pikachu was clearly the right one to take.

The only other big change would be that gamers would be less confused by all the focus on Clefairy early on in Pokemon Red and Blue, what with Mount Moon and the weirdly-detailed backstory of Clefairy that then never goes anywhere.
 
Why were they originally planning to make Clefairy Ash's Pokemon?

Also I can't really recall Clefairy in the original game (I never did get as far as I ought to have, I had a bad tendency to restart the game when I got stuck) what was she up to?
 
It might dent the appeal of the series in the West since Clefairy reads as "girly" over here to a much greater extent than Pikachu. It still revitalises sales of the Game Boy line and becomes Nintendo's second cashcow franchise, because in its native Japan the game drove the series rather than the other way around as was largely the case in the US and Britain and Nintendo have looked inwards to determine their course of action. At most, it becomes an import-darling series like Super Robot Wars or the Atelier games, with a dedicated niche fanbase in the West playing imported Japanese copies, and the fourth panel of this comic is quite different.

Why were they originally planning to make Clefairy Ash's Pokemon?
It was going to be the series mascot (which is why the generic Pokémon sprite in the original games looks most like Clefairy or Jigglypuff) so it'd make sense for the cartoon protagonist to get it since in OTL he got Pikachu.
 
With Clefairy as the mascot, I can't see the anime series gaining the same popularity among young male viewers. If GameFreak does develop and release a "Special Clefairy edition" after Red/Blue, it probably doesn't sell too well because so much of the video-gaming public will unfairly brand it as a "girl's game." Consequently, with no successful Yellow version (or equivalent), I don't think they'll be releasing Crystal, Emerald, or Platinum in later generations.

Overall, I see a Pokemon series that's roughly the same as our reality, but slightly less profitable, since the "third editions" won't come out and the TV series won't have mainstream success.

I agree. I personally think a short animated series is probably a better one. If the anime gets dropped after a couple of years, then it is likely that the series ends at the Indigo League or Johto, with the GS Ball storyline getting a proper resolution. Wouldn't be Avatar-like quality but would still be pretty good. :)

Why were they originally planning to make Clefairy Ash's Pokemon?

Also I can't really recall Clefairy in the original game (I never did get as far as I ought to have, I had a bad tendency to restart the game when I got stuck) what was she up to?

They're in Mount Moon. I've never understand why Clefairy is only normal instead of psychic though, although that issue has been resolved with fairy types...

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It was going to be the series mascot (which is why the generic Pokémon sprite in the original games looks most like Clefairy or Jigglypuff) so it'd make sense for the cartoon protagonist to get it since in OTL he got Pikachu.

My question was more why they originally wanted it to be the series mascot, were they originally planning to target pokemon more to girls?
 
I don’t think Clefairly becoming the mascot necessarily means the series wouldn’t be as popular in the West. I can image that in this timeline, maybe Game Freak, instead of deciding to change the mascot from Clefairy to Pikachu, redesigns Clefairy to be more “gender neutral” like maybe they make Clefairy white instead of pink, and remove its hair curl
 
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