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Originally Posted by CyberCubed
Both the Johto games and the anime kind of suffered from the "sophmore slump" where they relied too much on Kanto and didn't have their own identity. I like most of the Johto pokemon themselves though, but the games were fine, and the anime portion is known to get bogged down with a lot of repetitive filler eps for the first time, it's why people felt Ash's story was going nowhere at the time. Granted all the sagas later do have similar issues, but the writers manage to include more development for the cast and companions and better battles, even if the formula stayed the same.
Also the initial pokemon fad largely died down around 2001/early 2002, when we were in the middle of the Johto era. At least in the U.S., I don't know how it was in Europe.
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It was pretty much the same here. Like I said before, by the end of 6th grade, Pokémon's initial fad was over among my generation. I didn't notice it at first due to summer vacation, but once 7th grade began no one was talking about Pokémon anymore. Yu-Gi-Oh was quite popular in the 2nd half of 6th grade but it was short lived. In 7th grade, Beyblade was popular for a while and then in 8th grade, Magic the Gathering became popular.