When I was growing up, adults hated Pokemon. Even discounting the Westboro types who threw Pikachu merchandise in fires and things, adults loathed it- mocked it, called it stupid, said it was badly drawn, badly made, an insult to their (not their children’s, mind) intelligence, a fad that wouldn’t last…
So it makes me rather smug that it’s lasted the test of time so well and is now almost universally loved.