What happened to Pikachu shorts?

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They never show them at the beginning of movies anymore, they make them their own separate ovas.

Why did they stop showing them at the beginning of movies?
 
People/the writers didn't like them anymore? As in beginning of the movies. But the "cute Pokémon" humour has increased in the movies since the Deoxys movie (I recall it was the first movie without a short movie?).
 
They basically just moved them from the movies to ANA planes. If PCI would just release them it wouldn't matter, but since they ignore them we get screwed. :-(

The real question should be why don't we get them.
 
The Pikachu shorts were basically absorbed into the movies as cute Pokemon sideplots. See - Pikachu's antics with the Johto starters and mutilated ear Pichu in Movie 12.
 
I guess they thought that getting rid of them in order to allow the main features to be longer was a sacrifice worth making?
 
That would be my guess, though if they are going to make adorable antics a part of the main movie, I'd rather have the Pikachu short. I like the cuteness overload a lot better than interruptions to a "serious" movie.
 
We do get them, the problem is they don't dub them anymore so to dub-only fans it seems like they stopped them.
 
There wasn't much of a cute pokemon sideplot in movie 8 that I remember. Unless you call Mew abducting Pikachu cute. That and the random appearance of Bonsly. Movie 9 was one long cute poke sideplot, so that doesn't count. I don't recall too much from Movie 10, just some random pokes in a garden. Movie 11, again, I don't remember the involvement of cute pokes too well, unless you count Shaymin, then it's similar to movie 9, only not as pointless.
 
More cutesy Pokémon in the movies, less shorts about the cutesy Pokémon before the movies.
 
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