The sign was there all along, in our faces. They said in the fucking first episode it appeared in that the 'Hero' Greninja 'appeared' when the Kalos region was in danger.
Ash-Greninja was never about winning the League. Ash-Greninja's true purpose is to save Kalos.
"If it uses its power solely for itself then it will never become truly strong, it can only become strong when it's protecting those he loves" that's exactly the kind of bullshit the anime would pull and you fucking know it. The parallel in today's episode between Ash and Alain sealed the deal. Alain won because he was fighting for Manon. Ash lost because he was fighting just for himself.
>playeduslikeadamnfiddle.jpg
>>27875665
FUCKING THIS, THANK YOU
Ash's pride and arrogance has always been his downfall, fucker had it coming to him after boasting about winning literally every ten seconds
WOAH! huh...so if he hadn't use greninja...he would of won.
I thought he was fighting so he could escape having to think about Manon and his problems. So he won because he decided to fight for something other than fun?
I guess a crying girl and her pet in a hospital bed is more stakes than Ash usually has to deal with if it's not an imminent extinction event or something, and those never have anything to do with the league.
Once I saw the part with comparing the two, I knew we were fucked.
>>27875665
then why was it so retardedly strong when it tussled with diantha and wulfric in battles with literally no actual stakes and nothing to protect besides pride
Alan wasnt fighting for Manon... He fought because he thought fightning Ash "was fun". He thought it many times in the battle.
> He didnt think about Manon a single time while they fought
>>27876066
You mean besides the giant visual cut to manon while they were in homosexual rainbow zone
>>27875665
Ash already saved the world like 20 times, who cares nigga zzzzzzzz
Zygarde looks like shit too
>>27876066
Did you even watch the episode faggot?
>>27875665
That's bullshit. Ash already proved so many times that he not only fights for victory.
>>27876105
The problem with Ash saving the world is that shit doesn't matter to him, because for some reason televised sporting events matter more for his self-image and worth as a pokemon trainer than encounters with god or aversion of the death of all mankind. And that's only if you count movies as canon, when only a few of them definitely are due to direct tie-ins to the series.
In what fucking way would fighting ash and winning the league help Manon. Alan said he just wanted to fight Ash. And no i havent watched todays episode because i cant find it
>>27875815
I hate that squeaky voiced faggot. When will we get a pokemon anime where the main character isn't Ash? The anime lost it's charm years ago for me.
>literal ashgreninja picture
seriously?
couldn't they make it less obvious just to have some kind of mistery to it?
at least like "oh crap, we had this scroll upside down for ages" or something
>>27876308
He was fighting to be the strongest so he could protect what's important to him, then they literally showed him thinking of Manon. Kys
>>27876278
hey, leave the kid alone, he fucking died once at the age of 10, who knows what he fucking saw at that moment and how it affected him
Who the fuck is this Manon person? Haven't watched the anime since around the start of the Sinnoh league.
>>27877493
I adore Ash. I don't have any illusions of thinking I'd have the balls to try and fistfight Mewtwo, face organized crime syndicates aiming to destroy countries or rewrite reality, or tolerate being stalked five out of seven days of the week by creepy adults and a talking cat. But it just kinda stings, in the way it stings when you follow any protagonist in a work of fiction and they lose.
>>27877566
This is Manon. She's Alan's love interest.
>>27877631
speaking of stuff I saw in that episode with the flashbacks
what's the relationship between Alan and the prof.?
also why is Alan such a pedo?
and the fuck is eureka doing with a Zygarde cell?
and specially why the fuckis the Citroid active when it's clearly an abomination that should be dismantled the instant anyone sets their eyes on it?
>>27877719
>hating on the Citroid
You crossed the line fucker
>>27877719
alright, here's the skinny, from a guy who was watching the mega evolution specials while playing video games and barely paying attention:
>alan was a research assistant for the prof and wore regular people clothes back then
>manon just started randomly following him on airplanes and by the time they were in another country he told her to fuck off, which was hugely irresponsible since they were in another country and he should have at least escorted her home.
>that's squishy and bonnie loves him
>citroid does clemont's job for him so he can continue being irresponsible with ash. kind of like what flint is to brock
>>27877779
I don't have a problem with it's personality, but that appearance...
when I see Magiana shit gets super uncanny and uncomfortable
>>27877719
>>also why is Alan such a pedo?
oh i forgot this
i dunno, don't you want to fuck this? i don't but she's league champion quality trophy wife
>>27877794
>>27877875
well she chose Chespin as her starter so i see why he'd tell her to fuck off at first, specially with the double Chespin hair
>ashfag in bargaining phase
>>27878016
i'm already in denial
>>27878016
I'm in acceptance. Dont know if im gonna continue watching. If the animation quality is still the same, then maybe.>>27878043