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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
He called Pokemon a fad at one stage, I'm sure.

Yeah, asked a rhetorical "Where is pokemon now?" from what I remember.

Still the top selling franchise of all time, Tom! Still raking in that TCG money hand over fist!

 Irbis wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
He called Pokemon a fad at one stage, I'm sure.

Yeah, asked a rhetorical "Where is pokemon now?" from what I remember.

Still the top selling franchise of all time, Tom! Still raking in that TCG money hand over fist!

That is kinda revisionist hindsight, you know. In 2014 Pokemon franchise was pretty much on life support (one original game released in last 5 years not counting cash milking remakes), Wii U was in the middle of being a huge flop, so much there wasn't even a Pokemon or Zelda game made on it and the console was heading for abandonment, sure, both Pokemon and Nintendo are in much better spot but let's not pretend the same was the case back then.

Pokemon makes the large majority of its revenue from merchandise, not the video games. And it's merchandise sales were pretty much solid throughout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pok%C3%A9mon_Company#Licensed_merchandise

The pokemon video games account for ~$27billion of Pokemons total revenue over its lifetime. Merchandise is ~$83billion.

Also, 2014 was not a bad year for pokemon as a business: https://web.archive.org/web/20150112202857/www.licensing.biz/news/read/pok-mon-ends-2014-on-a-high/041291

The world of Warhammer was never really light on magic unless you approach it with the "humans are the main character" mindset.

Magic was a core of all the elf societies, it was a core of all of the undead societies, it was a core of the lizardmen, it was a core of chaos etc.

Magic was also a core of the Gotrek and Felix stories. Gotrek is literally running around with one of the most powerful magic weapons in the setting, an axe which belonged to one of the dwarfs ancestor gods.

You can be racist without lumping multiple cultures together.

For instance by leaning on racist tropes or stereotypes. If all the warhammer-japan people were designed with exaggerated squinting eyes and buck teeth then they would definitely be racist, regardless of whether they did or did not incorporate elements of other Asian cultures.