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...have to last from a generation's start to finish? Like after Season 1, why not take a break and return for when Johto was released (with a new subtitle, of course, like "Gold & Silver")? Plenty of Anime have done hiatuses.
 
Most long-running series don't take hiatuses. There are a few that do, one of the most recent examples would be Fairy Tail, but I don't think it's too common. Aside from cases where they've had to take a week or two off for holidays or sports, they're usually trying to get episodes out every week.

As for the question at hand, I think that the series was just too successful after the Indigo League for them to consider just taking a break. The fact that the anime was originally suppose to end at that point might have also made them not want to take a break if they were going to keep going. They also were able to use that time to showcase a few more second generation Pokemon to hype up the new games. Technically though, they didn't start making each series last from a generation's start to its finish until AG. The original series consisted of both the first and second generations. Still, I think that the reasons they do that is so that they can promote the generation's games for years, as well as provide more hype for the next generations by showcasing new Pokemon in both the shows and movies. That's probably more appealing to the marketing team to extend a journey for years rather than rushing through it in over a year like with the first season, especially when we can get more games in a generation now due to both remakes and sequels being possibilities.
 
My guess is to keep people into the series; especially those who only watch the anime and don't get to play the games. It's a good marketing strategy. Plus, there's really no reason for the anime to take long hiatuses.
 
Plenty of anime break themselves into shortened series of around 26 episodes or so (equivalent to an American season), but that's not as common among shonen kid's shows (e.g. One Piece or Naruto), and for a series that is essentially a marketing tool like Pokemon, there'd be no practical use to do so. The show's primary purpose is to advertise the games, and it can't very well do that on hiatus.
 
Hidden Mew said:
Most long-running series don't take hiatuses. There are a few that do, one of the most recent examples would be Fairy Tail, but I don't think it's too common. Aside from cases where they've had to take a week or two off for holidays or sports, they're usually trying to get episodes out every week.

As for the question at hand, I think that the series was just too successful after the Indigo League for them to consider just taking a break. The fact that the anime was originally suppose to end at that point might have also made them not want to take a break if they were going to keep going. They also were able to use that time to showcase a few more second generation Pokemon to hype up the new games. Technically though, they didn't start making each series last from a generation's start to its finish until AG. The original series consisted of both the first and second generations. Still, I think that the reasons they do that is so that they can promote the generation's games for years, as well as provide more hype for the next generations by showcasing new Pokemon in both the shows and movies. That's probably more appealing to the marketing team to extend a journey for years rather than rushing through it in over a year like with the first season, especially when we can get more games in a generation now due to both remakes and sequels being possibilities.
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Exactly. And I'm one of the few dorks that loves the fact that the animated franchise is so massive. Almost 1000 episodes, almost 20 movies, 4 specials and 20+ spin-off episodes. Not to mention the Mystery Dungeon animated specials. :D
 
Originally I typed a super-long post that took me the whole afternoon to reply the OP's skepticism, but then decided my full detailed reply will better suit as blog, so I'll give me super-shortened answer:

Mammonism of business nature.


Forgive me for such blunt answer. But I saw many JPN anime/manga/novel that were forced to ended earlier than the scenario writer(s)/manga artist/novel author originally planned, or forced to elongate the work or making sequels that the writer didn't planned, simply due to the decision from the director board of the anime studio or the chief editor of the manga/novel studio, for the reason of the work is not selling well or selling too well.

I do admit in the past (before I watched AG) that Pokemon as an anime does have potential to become a successful continuous series just like Gundam series, but not in the current long-running format where it trying to duplicate the Shonen animes like Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Dragonball, Detective Conan, Fairy Tail, etc. And yet trying to be like th slice-of-life comedy which doesn't need continuity like Doraemon, Chibi Maruko, Crayon Shin-chan, Sazae-san etc.

Being too successful to take a break is really not an excuse, and is also not an excuse for elongate the show with third-rate scriptwriting without long-term planning.
 
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