Talk:Upcoming ERB suggestions/@comment-81.203.250.80-20150720010306/@comment-1652808-20150720045239

The thing about Ash Ketchum is that most people don't notice immediately that he's an anime character, since kids know Ash Ketchum from way back before they knew Japan and America had different production companies, or even knew what production companies were, they'd just watch them because they enjoy them.

and on another note, Peter saying "No" to Goku doesn't mean he didn't want to use anime characters altogether, it meant that he didn't want to use Goku. Peter has said in the past that he doesn't watch anime because it's not his style (or whatever), but the thing about Ash is that, judging from Kanto Region stuff, the younger audience doesn't immediately recognize that Pokemon was an anime in the first place. Ash is more associated with Pokemon as a franchise than he is solely associated with the anime.