The anime is just a marketing tool for the games.The games come first,they are not equals.The games are more important than the anime.The anime is just there to promote only.
Also just like book and movies,the books come first since they are the important ones not the movies .You have to keep them seperate.
perhaps books and movies was a bad example (although, you're wrong in that books come first. Sometimes it's the other way around.) I was trying to make the point of different mediums of expression, meaning, that what you can express in one format in a book can be impossible to express in a movie or play, and vice versa. Some formats are better suited to expressing certain things than others, and while I do agree that in general "the book is better than the movie", in some cases it can legitimately be argued that the chronologically secondary format actually expresses the original intent or emotion better than the original format because the medium is better suited for it.
But you can also have two versions of something that come about at the same time and influence each other, such as in folklore. Folklore on one particular tale or topic can develop simultaneously across a wide area, with each region's/village's/etc version being slightly to quite different, and adjacent areas influencing the telling of the local tales. No one version is "right" or "superior", even though they have contradictions and descrepancies. In a way, they are all "right", a sort of "multiverse" with countless renditions of the same "world", with each rendition being cannon in its own way, similar in a way to the "visual novels" of Japan where depending on a few choices the story that enfolds can be drastically different, and each version is cannon.
Related to these veins of thought, while in the case of Pokemon the first set of games may have predated the anime, and the creation of the anime might have been conceived with the idea of promoting the games, by now the anime has developed so it is not just an marketing appendage to the games and is just as much a facet of the pokemon universe as the games, if not an even larger one in some ways. For those who've never watched the anime or played the games, where do you think their basic knowledge of the pokemon universe mainly comes from? Probably the anime. Pikachu is much more recognizable than the original 3 starters or any other pokemon, and that is because of the anime. As for being a marketing appendage for the games, I'm guessing the anime sells more non-main-game merchandise than game copies, and probably a lot more of it than the games do, specifically because pokemon are able to be given much more character in many ways in the anime.
Anyways, there are many people who watch the anime who never play the games, and vice versa. Neither is innately
better than the other, and each has its own strengths. You are free to not care about the anime, but invalidating the opinion of anyone who takes the anime into account when discussing the pokemon universe and new additions to it is a bit much. And it's silly to think that the pokemon anime doesn't affect anything about the games. Think about the whole planned GS ball event that was aborted in the games other than one isolated Japanese event that never went worldwide because they changed their minds and decided to go a different direction in the anime. And more than that, think of the gagillions of pikachu clones that have shown up in every generation of the games. If not for Pikachu becoming the mascot through the anime, that probably would not have happened. Not to mention Pokemon Yellow, which was an entire main-series game basically based off the anime. Then there's the inflation of event pokemon, whose increasing numbers since generation 1 probably have something to do with providing a means to sell more movies, seeing as a lot of them don't really play a role in the games either directly or by setting up major region lore. Do you really think there's not someone involved in the creation of new generations whose job it is to coordinate things in development of the games for the benefit of the anime? At this point, the anime is not functioning merely as promotion of the games, but actively shaping them, just as pocket monsers red and green shaped the development of the original anime.
A lot of pokemon have personality.Their design and how they move and what they do during battle showcases their personality.Your talking purely about story,I'm talking about how a pokemon acts when you see them battle in game.
For how they move, you mean... how their sprites sit there and a generic animation plays separate from them? Because that's what happens in most pokemon games, and while in generation six they have implemented a couple custom move animations and some basic "at rest" movements for pokemon, the case at large is still not much changed. I'd love to sometime see a game where pokemon behavior and movement is created via complex formulas and is individualized based on species and other factors, but we're just not even close to that sort of thing. As for what moves they get and use in battle, well, you choose which moves they use in battle, so I wouldn't say that's a personality showcase of the pokemon, and as for the moves they get, that's determined mostly by the physical capabilities of their species, rather than their personalities. I suppose you could make a case for things like leer, growl, and play rough, but considering the widespread distribution of many of these, it's still rather a stretch.
As for their designs showcasing their personality, well, can you judge the personality of an animal or even a human based on it's appearance? Even in the game, you could have a bunch of liftens, which by their design all look aggressive and whatnot, but according the the game canon of "natures", some of them are timid, some are quiet, and some are bashful...
