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Pokémon Anime Discussion Thread

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Welcome to the Pokémon Anime Discussion Thread. Talk about new episodes, old episodes, upcoming episodes, anime Pokégirls, sub releases, discuss, speculate, bitch and moan, etc., etc.

>NOT-SHIT SUBS:
http://pocketmonsters.edwardk.info/#PocketMonstersXYSubbed

>Citronic Gear On's music rips:
http://pastebin.com/C2gkFb0g

>Newfag Airing/viewing order guide:
http://pastebin.com/anb9qe55

>Sun and Moon Anime Preview
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/pokemon_sunmoon/story/index.html

>Movie 19: Volcanion and the Ingenious Magearna [Jul 16th]
http://www.pokemon-movie.jp/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWtBDuxrcS0
Excerpt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMWw5xiwW8

>LET'S GO SEE GEKKOUGA IN THE THEATER! SPECIAL GEKKOUGA VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-34tfTiqo

Next episode:
>XY&Z44: We Start at Zero! Clemont's Decision!! [Oct 6]
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/pokemon_xyz/trailer/

Upcoming episodes:
>None listed

Shit people will ask:
>Is this season good? I haven't watched the anime in [x] years and-
Yes, it's fucking good, just start watching it already.

>What's the point of watching it anymore?
To enjoy the ride.

>Will Serena win da Ash?
Never give up until the very end.

>Muh subs when?
[PM] is subbing XY&Z. Their releases can happen any time of the week.

Old thread:
>>28546005
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POCKET MONSTERS 44 SUBS:
http://pocketmonsters.edwardk.info/[PM]Pocket_Monsters_-_044_-_Paras_and_Parasect[H264_SUB][F7D3A8D8].mkv.torrent

MOVIE 1 TRAILER SUBS:
http://pocketmonsters.edwardk.info/[PM]Pocket_Monsters_Movie_1_Trailer_1[H264_SUB][518DF777].mkv.torrent

XY&Z37 SUBS:
http://pocketmonsters.edwardk.info/[PM]Pocket_Monsters_XY&Z_037_The_Finals!_Satoshi_VS_Alan!![H264_720P][429D17E9].mkv.torrent

XY&Z38 RAW:
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=841536

XY&Z39 RAW:
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=843882

XY&Z40 RAW:
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=845935

XY&Z41 RAW:
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=847987

XY&Z42/43 RAW:
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=850249

NEXT: POCKET MONSTERS XY&Z44: WE START AT ZERO! CITRON'S DECISION!! (OCTOBER 6TH)
>The incident caused by Flare has come to an end, and the Kalos region starts getting restored little by little. Clemont is also busy restoring the Gym and repairing the Citroid. On the day before the Gym is finally going to reopen, a boy comes to visit Clemont. The boy tells him that he challenged the Citroid to a gym battle once and lost against it, and that he has now come for a rematch...

UPCOMING SHIT:

POKÉMON NO UCHI ATSUMARU? EPISODE 50 (Sep 18th)

XY&Z -MOVIE VER.- (SATOSHI)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/6d63pkrvpvcqry3/XY%26Z_MOVIE_VER_%28Both_Sizes%29.zip

THE PIKACHU SONG (PIKACHU)
http://www.megafileupload.com/7hw9/The_Pikachu_Song.m4a

VOLCANION AND THE INGENIOUS MAGEARNA SOUNDTRACK
http://www.filedrop
per.com/movie19soundtrack

VOLCANION AND THE INGENIOUS MAGEARNA MANGA
CHAPTER 1: http://imgur.com/a/PAdz8
CHAPTER 2: http://imgur.com/a/cGC71
CHAPTER 3: http://imgur.com/a/l6bs1
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Flying to the new thread, looking forward more XY&Z episode titles and maybe more subs.

Thread song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-yIiu69850
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Best girl
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>Upcoming episodes:
>None listed
I'm genuinely triggered
Muh titles when?
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>>28548740
Pokemon Fan is officially out in 5 days.
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>>28548740
Probably because the next episode is three weeks away. I suppose we'll be getting broadcast listing soon, won't we?
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Will Lillie win da Ash?
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>>28548696
>Tomioka self-inserts as Alan
>gives himself a loli waifu who hugs him in the span of three episodes
>she doesn't even get mad when his edge pushes her away and keeps supporting him
>reacts to him ten times more openly than Serena towards Ash
>Ash is going to end up ditching Serena while Alan and Manon will stay at Sycamore's lab and live a comfy life of Pokémon research and fugging every night
At least one person is happy about all this.
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post yfw when no more serena.
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Long hair Serena best Serena.

And I will even miss short hair Serena after seeing that horrible SM trailer.
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Sup senpai, how would you like your Ash?
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>>28548772
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>>28548751
When should we expect leaks?
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>>28548780
Like this
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Was it "Satoshi, I'm waiting" or "Satoshi, we're waiting" dammit! ADAMANT!
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>>28548780
N-naked.
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>>28548790
In 3 or 4 days
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>>28548814
It'd mean the same in this situation, wouldn't it?
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>>28548764
In a few weeks, she'll have a better chance than Serena...
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>>28548818
L-lewd.
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>>28548837
Did Puni-chan die at the end of 1 hour special?
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Hey /padt/. I left after the league.

Is the SM anime going to be done by different animators? I don't follow that sort of thing, but I do remember some of the animators speaking out against having Ash lose all the time.
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>>28548837
Umm, no?
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Guys, what if this new Satoshi ends up just being his son, also being named Satoshi and also starting with a Pikachu?

That's totally possible still, right?

Being in denial over this is becoming increasingly difficult.
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>>28548780
Like this.
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Quick recap of today.

Finally the shitty, overdramatic, cookie cutter, corny, and plot hole infested mess of flare arc is done and we got the new sm trailer.

Let's see

>Fluid animation
>Fun Ash instead of the edgy faggot Ash
>No more dumbfrog
>No more Serena
>Skull gang looks great
>Team rocket get mimikyu and bewear

That's great and all

>No chicken-chan

Whoa they dropped the ball there, didnt they? Oh well I'm a mallow missile now.
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>>28548857
No.
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Why did Lillie look so friendly and open in the preview?

This doesn't bode well for the prospect of interesting characters, instead of everyone being super nice like XY.
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Anyone else excited for silly ash? I thought making him a typical Japanese stubborn man was a little boring, especially combined with serena
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>>28548764
Lillie getting killed or being sent into alien dimension for eternity.
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>>28548862
>Is the SM anime going to be done by different animators?

They haven't announced anything of the sort so it's unlikely but not impossible.
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>>28548837
Thoughts about the trailer Adamant?
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>>28548849
C-can't help it.

>>28548857
>>28548870
No.
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>>28548885
Why does ash look like a fucking faggot?
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It's XYZ fault that SM looks shitty. That means they spent a lot of money on XYZ and had not much profit, resulting in budget cuts.
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>>28548814
There's no pronoun here, which is typical for Japanese. Just base it off her tone.
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>>28548889
If I want that silly retard stuff I would watch some Western show like Eek! The Cat or something. This shit needs to stay away from anime.
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>>28548727
The problem with her is that they're never going to attempt anything like Amour ever again. I can imagine so much saltiness when she leaves.
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>>28548764
How triggered would people be if that actually happened at the end of Sun and Moon?
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>>28548885
She was probably talking to the teacher, no need to not be nice to them. She's probably a bitch to her classmates though.
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>>28548901
Lillie a qt.

As for the show, it could be fun. I want to wait and see before judging.
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How can one girl possibly be this cute?
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>>28548934
>M-MUH ANIMES ARE SUPER DUPER SERIOUS AND NO FUN ALLOWED >:O >:O >:O
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>>28548934
>not liking anime comedy
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>"I will do everything I can to prevent the future I saw, Xerosic. That night, when we were experimenting with Mega Energy, and the time wormhole opened...I saw...things. Horrible. Unspeakable things. And I learned that, unless we force it to, the world will eventually end like it. I will...save the world from it, even if I have to destroy it and rebuild it completely. Even if I have to sacrifice myself for the greater good. I will save the Pokemon World from...it."
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Question: Why does everyone cling to Serena so hard? Why do they even want her in Alola? What makes her character worthwhile compared to other girls?

Protip: saying "she's cute" or "she likes Ash" only proves that she's a shallow and uninteresting character. Plus every pokegirl is cute.
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>>28548941
Sure if interspecies relationships are a thing in the anime... Otherwise, expect the same thing again.
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>>28548945
>Lillie a qt.
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>>28548780
This.
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>>28548971
Iris wasn't cute.
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>>28548945
Artstyle is atrocious imho.

But I am going to give it benefit of doubt and watch how it is transitioned from XY to SM.
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>>28548971
Her only character treat is craving Ash's dick. But since these faggots keep self inserting on him, that's the only character trait that matters to them. That's why they're so against her leaving, to them she's craving 'their' cock, not Ash's. It'd be sad if it weren't so fucking disgusting.
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>>28548953
I wish I can marry Serena. She would make an ideal wife.
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>>28548994
You sound like a kid.
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>>28548971
I used to want Serena to go to Alola, or if she wouldn't, at least that the Chicken or Lillie would be the female companions.

After the poster and the trailer, I'm glad that Serena and Chicken dodged the bullet. I can't say the same for Lillie, sadly. Fuck Mallow, though.
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>>28548971
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Just finished watching 42/43. Wew, I don't think I've ever seen so many anime tropes hamfisted into a one hour special at once.
That was... something alright.

>>28548885
I'm not gonna say I hate the art style without having seen more of it, but I hate the art style without having seen more of it.
I think my biggest problem still though, is that they fumbled a bunch of easy shit, and then the flair arc was some of the most rushed and retarded writing I've ever seen for a plot climax in my life.

I just don't know how to you go so right throughout a series, and then just shit the bed so hard right at the finish line when it's so free and easy.
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>>28548971
I wanted either Serena or Greninja so my boy can finally get some permanent development
And now my dream is dead like Serena and frog
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>>28548994
Objectively wrong.
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>>28548941
If it was done properly, I'd be fine with Lillie x Ash as the end game, and Game Freak stopped fucking around. Dawnfags would be sad, Mistyfags would be angry, Serenafags would kill themselves.
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>>28548971
>she's friendly
>she's soft spoken
>she's caring for others
Sure Ash steals most of her attention but she cares about her friends.
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>>28548780
JUST FUCK MY SHIT UP
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>>28548971
Because she's literally perfect.
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>>28549026
>people actually think any other girl will have a canon crush on Ash
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Let's do a list of things that will look good in comparison to SM, shall we? I'll start:

>Cameron
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>>28548889
Yes. /padt/ is hating on him because he ditched their waifu.
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>>28548921
>>28548885
My faggot satoshi doing this faggot look everytime I watch anime. Every fucking day. Every single fucking day this little faggot just sits there and gives me this stupid look on his face.
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>>28548941
>tfw Lillie is kept as pet squid in Pallet as Ash travels.
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>>28549011
I hate all of them except Lillie. None of them look that great, why bother putting in a brown girl in the show again when people hated Iris? And Lana is bait for pedophiles.
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>>28548994
Shit taste confirmed.

That or just racist.

Either way, go bury yourself for eternity.
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>>28549008
Then do it Ash.

>>28549026
So they should make Ash interested in tentacles I guess.
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>>28548885
God ash looks so damn bad compared to xy
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>>28548959
>>28548960
The goofiness is needed to be appealing to a low IQ audience. An anime doesn't need that, and can be good with more serious characters and settings.
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>>28549059
Shit taste pls go
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>>28549049
Serena isn't that cute. Kind of boring I thought. Why would anyone want a boring girl instead Of a happycute one?
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>>28548764
>>28548848
>>28548941
>>28549026
>people still believe that there will be shippings in the ashnime
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>>28549004
Eh, several normies I've come across like Serena(girls too) and some of them found themselves sticking to XY because of her, even if they had stopped watching the anime since long ago or never had watched it even.
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>>28549072
>An anime doesn't need that
It's good that Japan thinks otherwise.
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>>28549086
Pokemon loves interracial.
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>>28549086
>school setting
>no shipping
Maybe not with Ash, but will be here.
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>>28548971
She is good looking and being submissive while also being caring, these are things that make her an ideal wife for many people.
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>>28548971
Because she is perfection and it's been stated numerous times that she makes the best waifu material. if she leaves I could lose my respect for her
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Leaguefags really need to stop pretending they've been here for more than a few months holy shit
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>>28549049
And serebii. And bulbapedo. And reddit, neogaf, youtube, tvtropes, twitter, /a/, /v/, the rest of /vp/, spic forums, facebook fanpages...
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>>28549113
I could see Kiawe and Lillie, he appears to be the most "mature" of the crowd.
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>>28549072
>IQs
>Meaning anything

Yeah buddy and i got the IQ of a adult male in his late thirties when i was six years old, and yet i want to watch SM, guess that means that goofy anime is the best and that no serious anime should ever exist right?
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>>28549044
>Greninja jobbing
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Is Olympia charlatane.
Her predictions are so fucking off.
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So who else thinks that Ash is going to get all three starters again, like season 1? None of the three are standing out as if they will be his one and only starter.
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>>28549113
>le SoL school harem meme

You're as retarded as the ones who thought Amour would be canon and that Ash would win a league.
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>>28549128
>Everytime something goes wrong we will call on a new boogieman

My favorite meme.
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>>28549086
>shippings in the ashnime
MayxDrew
ViolaxGrant
AlanxManon

It's like you don't even watch the show.
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This is my Satoshi
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>>28549035
SM Ash is going to make BW Ash look good, jesus christ.
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>>28548696

what is this expression trying to convey?
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>>28549126
>>28549124
>>28549008

See? All these people saying they like her because they want her as a 'wife', despite her literally being a ten year old girl, and the reasoning largely being her perceived submissiveness. No mention of any character traits that make her interesting to watch, just 'she'd let me fuck her', basically.
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>>28549146
No, it means you have the mental development of a 10 year old kid.
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>>28549086
?????
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I am actually okay with the chicken not showing up now. The art style and animation in SM are HORRENDOUS. Is it even the same animation company?~
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>>28549158
Already happened in BW, so that'll be nothing new.
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>>28549162
It's pretty fucking obvious this thread has full of faggots that have watched very little of XY in general ever since the league started.
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>>28549158
Probably not, Lana was seen with Popplio.
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>>28549164
Kenny and Dawn too
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>>28549136
>serebii
>bulbapedo
>reddit
>youtube
>facebook

Stop it anon. I can't take so much autism all at once.
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>>28549178
>I'd better construct this elaborate fantasy that I bet all Serenafags subscribe to
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>>28549158
The concept art makes it seem like Litten will be his starter. The promo looks as though it will be Rowlet. Who knows? I'd be down for him having all three.
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>Yfw Ash and Manon are almost the same size
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>>28549169
BW Ash design wasn't that bad, honestly.
But I see why it triggered people in 2010.
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>>28549180
I think they meant main characters.
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>>28549178
Ok, I'll be generous with you.

You do realize this thread is full of people falseflagging for shits and giggles, right?

I've been doing it myself, falseflagging as both someone who likes and dislikes SM, Serena and Lillie. Hell, you just replied to one of my posts.
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Press F to pay respects
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>>28549179
Sure thing buddy! i bet you are smirking at yourself for such a greaaaaaat come back, say, how does it feel to have the mental development of a edgy 12 year old?
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>>28549202
>Essentially quoting people is making up an elaborate fantasy
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>>28549182
>>28549089
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>>28549158
Lana has Popplio, so 2 at max.
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>>28549197
You're on page done by autist, copied from autists, up-kept for autists and manned by autists.
Where the fuck do you think you are?
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>>28549219
FA Q
A
Q
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>>28549180
Baby-making doujins where?
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>>28549216
There's a lot of people of who claim shit like that, you're not going to claim they're ALL falseflagging, are you?
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>>28549197
It means the anime fanbase is autistic as fuck, and can only congregate in autistic places, like the ones you mentioned, or this very general.

And the point still stands, a huge majority didn't like the announcement of SM.
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>still no subs
It's the only reason I even visit these threads
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>>28549158
He's getting Litten.
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>>28549207
True. I've liked all of Ash's designs until SM, but this one makes me want to do pic related.
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>>28549252
Not like you really need subs to watch a simplistic as fuck anime like this. If you know what the key words are, you should be able to get through just fine.
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So why the fuck couldn't they just let Ash win the Kalos league if they knew they were doing this big reboot?
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>>28549250
>It means the anime fanbase is autistic as fuck
You figured that just now?
More than 50% of the fanbase is a Pedophile or Autistic. The other less than half is a kid
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>>28548851
Thank you!
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>>28549267
Why winner of the league needs education?
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>>28549178
That's what I figured.

Nothing of value was lost.
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>>28549267
Chances are, they were going to.
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>>28549246
Look at this. "Leaguefags", "funfags", "shills", and other terms are been used by shitposters falseflagging left and right. I would know, I'm doing it too.
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>>>>>>>>>Iwane will have to animate SM

This is so sad.
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>>28549266
You do kind of need subs at this point, though. TPCi's dub is literally unwatchable these days: I'm kinda dreading what that Jew who replaces almost 90% of the OST will do to SM Anime, actually. The script and voices are guaranteed to be shit, but I was kinda hoping it'd be like BW's dub where they left the music alone for the first season before going back to their usual tricks.
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>>28549267
>if they knew they were doing this big reboot?
Its not a reboot idiot
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>>28549267
The better question is: Why the fuck the last 4 episodes?
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>>28549222
>Hah, you can't name 10 reasons why you like Serena that means you like her for these 2 reasons

Here's a cool experiment: go ask people for 10 reasons why they like X character in Y series and see what they say. Most of them will struggle, even if's their favorite character. It's a hard question to answer because people don't list traits of a character in their brain and then choose to like them based on those traits. They just like the characters that they like.
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>>28549266
You barely need that. I was really behind on the anime, but I watched the livestream of the double episode earlier and was fully capable of following what was happening.

Thinking about just doing that from now on, actually.
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>>28549267
Because otherwise the whole Ash goes to school would had been even stupider than it already is.
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Well i guess the only hope now is for Gen 8 to bring the style of the anime back to what it was before, since we now know the anime changes drastically from gen to gen.

Problem is that's 3 years away.
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>>28549158
Lana is getting Popplio
Mallow is getting Rowlet
Ash gets Litten
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>>28549250
A huge majority doesn't like Ash's new face.

Stop cherry picking for a minute and you might notice that we're having these arguments because a large number of people also happens to think S/M looks fun.
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>>28549267
Just because ot has a different artstyle it doesn't mean its a reboot.
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>>28549252
SOON
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When are some new episode titles revealed?
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>>28549299
When lots of different people all give the same, single reason, I'm going to assume it's at least an important part of that character's popularity. Sue me.
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Anyone else like the scene today when the sun rose and the victory music played?
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How can Ash do it?

https://youtu.be/_x3eSkGu__8?t=12
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>>28549317
O N E P I E C E
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>>28549325
HY-
>XY&Z38
O-oh.
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Steven returns after 12 years from a one time appearance to a cameo star. He literally was the guest this generation. Neither Iris nor Cilan. And Elite 4 Champion stole Ash's Companion slot, in a good way. Also Looker never appeared.
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>>28549267
>"producer-san, we have this plan to make Satoshi win this league, and maybe have a girl like him, and then make him the hero of the evil team arc by giving his Gekkouga a new forme that is more powerful than the one we've been shilling, and..."
>"IMPOSSIBURU! SATOSHI MUST GO TO THE NEW REGION, HE HAS TO ROSE THE REAGUERU! MAKE HIM ROOSE! PREASE UNDERSTANDARU!"
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>>28549330
Within 5 days
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>>28549311
In the poster rowlet is hiding behind Ash, so it's probably his.
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My normie friend qho doesn't even watch the show wanted Serena to stay just because he wants to fuck her kek how sad.
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>>28549299
The first traits that came to your mind were essentially "she'd make a good wife." That doesn't make her an interesting character to watch or worth keeping on the show.
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>barely 30 minutes into a new thread
>already over 150 posts
>threads reaching the bump limit in an hour

THREE WEEKS OF THIS GUYS

THREE WEEKS
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>>28549288
>>>>>>>>>>We'll have wait at least three years to see something on par with Brobowl again
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>>28549267
>Planned to have Ash win all through XY
>Set up arcs to hype it up
>Get ready for the big finale
>Already have story set up as if Ash had won
>Exec comes in out of fucking nowhere and forces everything to change because they want Ash in a classroom and league champs don't need remedial lessons
>They have to butcher and bastardize the planned ending

Shit man, I bet there were a bunch of glorious Champ Ash scenes left on the cutting room floor after that. Instead we got The Alan Show.
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Hau best not appear. Ugly fucker.
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>>28549315
>a large number

The delusion is real. Most people can smell the reset coming, only a few autists are still in denial, hoping the SM anime will be something other than it is shaping to be.
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>>28549250
It's either Ash's design, Ash going to school, the art style or Serena not being in Alola. Any of them, pretty much.
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>>28549333
People will list the very first things they can think of when they think of that character. She's kind and caring in every episode, of course people are going to say she's kind and caring.

>>28549369
See above, stop shitposting. Do you think every character who would make a good wife is uninteresting?
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>they didn't even let Greninja use another orange shuriken in the fight to save the world
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>>28548971
I straight up just liked her because she knew Ash from the past and her crush, thats pretty much the only interesting thing about her. It was the closest thing we could have gotten to Ash actually having a relationship with a girl.

Pretty much all pokegirls have been extremely one dimensional.
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>>28549386
Brobowl wasn't Iwane, it was Nishitani.
>Nishitani fucked off from the anime
>we will literally never see something on par with Brobowl again
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>>28549411
You know it's okay, you can admit you only want her around 'cos you want to fuck her. This is /vp/, you're not gonna get judged that much.
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so how disappointing was the finale
i tuned out like most after the league flop
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>>28549426
>Alan was the one to save Hari-chan, Eureka the one to kill Lysandre

JOBFROG AND JOBBER ASH
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>>28549432
That's even worse.
Fuck...
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>>28549430
>Pretty much all pokegirls have been extremely one dimensional.

So are almost all characters in every series.
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>>28549426
Why, so that it could do nothing again?
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Say all you want about SM but i'm honestly looking foward to it. Why? Well because after 20 years they are finally doing something new.
>The Alola region looks so far better than Kalos
>God tier SM girls
>Fun artstyle
>Interesting animation
>No Gyms
>No League
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>>28549411
>Do you think every character who would make a good wife is uninteresting?
Nice strawman, i.e. shitpost.

I didn't say every character, I said Serena, because those are her only traits apparently. >>28548971 specifically asked why she should go to Alola and what makes her character worth keeping, and all you could come up with is "she's my wife!"

Case in point.
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>>28549426
>they'll give his own special Greninja to Red in Generations, along with his Megazard
> it will actually accomplish shit

What if Generations is actually a big "fuck you" from TPC for disliking those trailers in YouTube?
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>>28549426
>>28549441
So is Olympia a fraud? She foretold that jobberfrog would be the one to save the world
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>>28549426
>>28549393
>Shit man, I bet there were a bunch of glorious Champ Ash scenes left on the cutting room floor after that. Instead we got The Alan Show

Unforgivable.
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Anyone really thought that Ash's story will wrap up in XYZ?
I mean, Japan really loves Ash, Origins flopped hard, so Ash is staying as much as anime airs.
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Post your rare Manons
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>>28549456
Could you make it any more clear how new you are?
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>>28549452
>this is what 10 year olds and autists actually think

Kek. Enjoy your out-of-nowhere totally-not-the-league tournament, fag.
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>>28549459
F U C K

I completely overlooked that. If this doesn't prove that they had to change the story, I don't know what does.
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>>28549452
>God tier SM girls
You are just basing this off looks, all pokegirls have looked god tier minus iris and her shitty hair

>Fun artstyle
no

>Interesting animation
no
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>>28549452
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>28549274
It's really sad considering how many of these people probably believe in eugenics
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>>28549480
>no argument
>ad hominem

Case closed.
Even Serenafags can't defend her shitty, uninteresting characterization.
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>>28549480
Wow anon, you really showed him, didn't you?
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>>28549436
It started good, then it became the Alan show, then Greninja never do anything and Alan and Zygarde saved the day. Lysandre was awesome.
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>>28549452
since when did TPC shills find this autistic place
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>>28549458
>"How could we have Ash-Greninja in the games?"
>"Eh, just call it Red-Greninja."
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>>28549352
>Steven returns
>He doesn't recognize Ash, and Ash doesn't recognize him, either that or they won't speak or allude to the fact that they met before
>Anime fans will attempt to justify this to soothe their autism
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>>28549436
Dissapointing? No. But personally for me it was kind of boring. I prefer the League where Ash lost over the TF Arc.
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>>28549435
>look mom i posted it again xD

One more time for you because I know it's difficult to read if you're ESL or an Amerifat. Go ask anybody why they like a character and you will get barely more than 1 or 2 traits and mostly people trying to pass things the character did off as traits. People don't decide to like characters by listing their traits and then going, "Yup, this is the character for me."

>>28549456
Here I'll actually quote you so you don't pretend I'm strawmanning again

>The first traits that came to your mind were essentially "she'd make a good wife." That doesn't make her an interesting character to watch or worth keeping on the show.

You did not say "only traits". You specifically said first traits in a response to a post where I also said what I said to the other guy I'm responding to. I know it's hard to not just make shit up when you're arguing but please at least try to remember what you said 5 minutes ago.
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Welp, I guess this is what I get for trying being an optimist.
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>>28549545
>Alan took over the protagonist role when he's the one that helped fuck everything up in the series, and Eureka helped Zygarde become hero legendary for the arc as we all expected

someone just
just fire all these writers, and the series director who initiated this
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>>28549436
It was pretty hype actually, though they kinda bumbled it towards the end by sucking Alan's dick a bit too much and ignoring Ash and the frog. But it wasn't bad.
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>>28549496
No, they saved the world because placing of Shuriken was so important, you know.
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>>28549452
Get rid of Team Rocket already: THAT would be something new!
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so what was that "ash-greninja will take an important role" prophecy all about
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>>28549399
>Most people can smell the reset coming
No shit, happens every season. Some of us think it looks fun because we're not expecting the pokémon series to be /padt/'s romance animu edgy drama action dream.

It looks fun. Hate on it all you like, the rest of us will be giving it a chance.
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>>28549436
- Bonnie was all good.
- Zygarde stuff was predictable but also good.
- Clemont's screentime was disappointing but he did get one good scene where Clembot sacrifices itself.
- Serena was disappointing, didn't get to do much and never got to shine by herself.
- TR mostly just reported on what was happening. I don't know why they needed the foreshadowing from Olympia.
- TF scientists and Xerosic got pretty badly shafted.
- Malva switched sides for no adequately explained reason despite foreshadowing that she'd side with TF.
- Lysandre was good but his battle against Ash and Alan on top of Prism Tower was terribly written and choreographed, just Hyper Beam spamming with Ash's jobbermons dropping one by one until Mega Gyarados was eventually overwhelmed through sheer numbers no strategy involved.
- The climax with the megalith, Perfect Zygarde and the gym leaders was really repetitive but well done. By 'repetitive' I mean that it featured Ash and Alan having to reach the inside of the megalith and it went "roots approaching them -> a gym leader taking the hit in their place -> Ash calling out to him/her -> the gym leader telling Ash to keep going -> rinse and repeat ten times".
- Alan ended up rescuing Hari-san and basically looked like the hero.
- Ash Greninja did jackshit that warranted the prophecy and the hype surrounding it.
- Perfect Zygarde killed Lysandre.
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>>28549590
it played an important role in shattering our dreams
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>>28549550
Well, he barely looks like AG Steven, who was pretty much the Character of the Day and nothing more. I guess they just forgot they've already adapted him, like they did with Jimmy/Ethan.
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HEY GUYS LOOK

SUN AND MOON ASH
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>>28549568
Yeah. I try to be positive and everyone hates me. If you all hate Pokemon so much why is this thread still here?
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Serenas character trait was only sucking ash's dick at every turn.

you can't fucking prove me wrong and the fact that serena shippers are angry that she's following trash ketchup to alola is because they self inserted into ash because they all fucking thought "serena will win da ash".

This is why shipping is fucking cancerous and you know it.
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200+ replies and still nobody has given another reason for liking Serena than 'she'd make a good wife', but sure, she's an amazing character.
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>>28549590
It did all the heavy work
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>>28549590
USELESS FUCKING FROG
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>entire thread has loved Serena for two and a half years, shitposting aside
>suddenly a bunch of faggots act like it's just a couple people that like her
>at the same time the league starts and there's newfags all over the thread
Right
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do you think the best girl will make a comeback in the next season?
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>>28549612
He looks like Asuka Sho from SuperBook(1981).
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>>28549274

And I thought all these Manon ass shots were a coincidence
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>>28549590
Well, in any other media, I'd praise it for subverting the tired old "Chosen One Savior" trope with there being many saviors united together.

But Pokemon already subverts its protagonists more than enough.
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>Ash didn't do anything dumb in the trailer
>people already assume he's a BW-tier retard
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>>28549617
>trash ketchup
You need to be over 18 to post on 4chan
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>people hating on Greninja
Kill yourselves
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>>28549608
>The japanese forgot, but the american dubbers didn't
This is totally a great show with competent writers
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>>28549612
Because some people remember being that hopeful and positive when we were first seeded info on the lighthearted BW Ash, and then it was shit and he was a degraded retard.
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>>28549180
>has to go on a million rock climbing trips just to get that BBC
I feel sorry for Viola.
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>>28549626
She's very likeable but insecure girl that had lots development through the series that gave us all kinds of feelings and really showed she was more than just another protagonist. She developed into a secure girl ready to do what is necessary. She had more development in her character than any other protagonist before except maybe May.
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>>28549659
try and prove me wrong that serena has more than one character trait,

you fucking can't
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>>28549567
You are incredibly retarded.

I didn't say being a good wife makes someone uninsteresting, I said it doesn't make them interesting when it's their only trait.

You still haven't explained what's actually interesting about Serena, which was the fucking question in the first place.
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Alan sure was badass going all "Muh Hero". Backflips and jumps in slow motion. Shit was one of the best parts of the episode. And you know what makes ot even better? That everything will pay off FOR HIM.
>Save Kalos
>Won the League
>Got a girlfriend
HE IS LITERALLY THE MC WE NEED
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>>28549636
It's your fault. You overdid it with your serenafagging, so much that the others grew tired of her misaimed fandom.

It's on you.
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>>28549694
>she was more than just another protagonist

yeah she was just a side character
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>>28549662
Hawlucha had personality and deserved to be the star.
Frog was narutobait.
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>>28549694
I am so happy Pokemon is discarding her, it makes up for other shit characters of that type such as Hinata
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>>28549703
>XY&Z was the tale of Pokemon Yuya and his Ruri, the Leprechaun

WANNA BE ZA PERFECT
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>>28549452
>The Alola region looks so far better than Kalos
Not really, the setting is both a hit and miss. It can be tropical and comfy but for a school setting it sucks.
>God tier SM girls
Only Lillie.
>Fun artstyle
If it needs a playful goofy artstyle then it's the same as abstract art: shit
>Interesting animation
It should be interesting by being good.
>No Gyms
Not sure if this can be called a perk, guess those kahuna battles will be an interesting replacement.
>No League
Then there is nothing to train for, but the endgame might be based around battling the Ultra Beast leader.

Only reason to be hyped for it is Lillie and Ultra Beast battles. From what I've seen so far I would rate it 2/10.
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>>28549728
So you got nothing huh? Lmao you got proved wrong and instant damage control
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>>28549662
I liked him a lot until they started treating him like shit for no reason.
>>
Even Sushi hates the new Ash:

http://evidentlyfishy.tumblr.com/post/150443453672/will-it-be-a-struggle-for-you-to-get-used-to-the
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>>28549668
>but the american dubbers didn't

Hmm? They added a line about him recognizing Steven in the English dub?

Regarding Ethan, his battle with Ash was during the narration segment, so his name was not said, but the Japanese guide to the movie listed his name as "Hibiki" instead of "Kenta" (despite using the same signature Donphan).
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>>28549742 (You)
K
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>>28549675
Okay.
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>>28549749
>It should be interesting by being good.
Well animation is good.
Art is not, but animation is no worse than XYZ's.
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>>28549749
>for a school setting it sucks.

It's perfect for a school setting because there's lots of potential for adventures, it's not just the typical urban school drama.
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>>28549638
If Serena doesn't, then don't count on it.
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>>28549713
And by "overdone Serenafagging" you're referring to something besides the blatant falseflag spam that started shortly after the leaugue, of course.

Nah, fuck off.
>>
Dawn struck the balance well between active and pleasant. Unfortunately, she was probably the one who wanted to fuck Ash the least, despite having a very close relationship with him
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>>28549742

Mad Mistyfag/Cuckuratard detected
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>>28549786
A relatable setting is better for it, who in the first world can relate to having school in some wooden huts like they're African schools?
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>>28549795
She also had very shitty development and was a shitier reboot of May
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>>28549650
It's Ash, He doesn't have book smarts. He has NAKAMA power and wins from being unconventional in battles. Put him in a school setting and you're begging for him to be made to look like a bumbling retard in every single episode.
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>>28549701
You have 0 reading comprehension so I'm not going to even bother giving you a serious reply, here's a (You) though.
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So is Ash going to lose his special snowflake power since the world just got saved by Alan?
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>>28549761
They even bothered to fish out his original dub actor, despite changing studios, something that happened with no other character other than Gary.
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>>28549749
It's like they completely dropped the ball this time.
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>>28549795
Honestly I always saw Dawn as something of a younger sister figure to Ash.
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>>28549795
>tfw there won't be female lead that will be treated as 2nd protagonist and have so much screentime and development
DP was truly unique.
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>>28549817
Any school setting is relatable. The environment just makes it more interesting for monster-related adventures.
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>>28549856
>Dawn
>development

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. Screetime she did have but development was Misty tier
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>>28549809
How am I a mistyfag?
>>28549790
Yes people who didn't care about Serena had all of those fucking pictures.
They're probably just retards from Serebii, which makes it painfully clear that there are a lot of serenafags
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>>28549795
>who wanted to fuck Ash the least
That's a good thing because not everyone is a shipper cuck so they rather self insert to be the ones who take Dawn.
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>>28549703
In a way, I'm glad the guy who won it all was at least a character we all knew since the 1st mega-evo special, and not some last minute ass-pull trainer. If you take into consideration that Ash has to be status quo man, introducing a second mc to be the winner wasn't the worst idea.
>>
What's actually wrong with the new ash? Maybe they'll have some decent writing?
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>>28549757
>For one thing, Studio Ghibli is actually filled with skilled people
Holy shit, savage. Kek.
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Manon is honestly the cutest anime girl.
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>>28549893
He looks almost nothing like his previous self, and like they changed his archetype / trope into something more carefree and bubbly, like Luffy.
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>>28549836

see
>>28549517

You're the one insisting that being a submissive wife isn't her "only" trait, yet you can't provide any others. You're just conceding that there is nothing interesting about her character.
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>>28549883
She developed greatly, it was subtle and not so straightforward as with May/Serena.
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>>28549840
Most likely since the writes are assholes
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>>28549918
Manon is fucking precious and I've loved her since day one.
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>>28549918
>implying
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>yfw your pedo boyfriend is going to jail
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>>28549883
If you actually watched DP she had development in terms of being more vain/arrogant at the start, then became depressed, and was then more fragile and insecure.

Dawn didn't need as huge a character shift as May or Serena because she was written closer to Ash.
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>>28549982

>jailing Kalos champion and hero
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>>28549942
No she didn't. She was literally the same the first episode as in the last. She was literally just a reboot of May but with less development to her character and much MUCH more relaying on her relationship with Ash to make her good but stand alone and her development isn't even close to May's or Serena's
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>>28549893
>decent writing

Wishful thinking.
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>B-but
>intense serenafagging was just shitposters
>amour spamming was just shitposters
>amour haters were just shitposters provoking serenafags
>serena haters were just shitposters

Damage control: the thread. We get it, only true, respectful, decent, polite, smart serena fans around, anyone else is a shitposter.
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>>28549893
I'm hoping they'll at least try to tie in XYZ Ash instead of just having him completely forget about everything that happened in Kalos

Something as simple as
>I've been running around just doing leagues and gyms and even when I was at my absolute best I still lost
>I know I'm a pretty good trainer, what am I missing?
>Fuck it, I'll take a break on a nice tropical island and re-learn the basics. It's embarrassing and degrading, but maybe I'll learn some new shit that will make me a more complete trainer

Ash is like a pretty good basketball player who relies too much on his dunks but probably needs to practice the fundamentals a little more.

Of course they probably won't do that, and he'll just go back to forgetting the entire type advantage system. Pikachu will lose to a level 5 Popplio.
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>>28549844
Interesting. What was the line they added?
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>>28549893
He's a downgrade.

>Mentor group leader role down to class retard with no book smarts
>Was clearly taller than Shota and Manon, the explicitly stated 10 year olds in XY, now he's down to zero aging again
>Trading sideburns for ROUNDED CHEEK Z's

I'm mad.
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>>28550012

This is just wrong, but anyone can have their own onions.
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>>28549994
I watched literally the whole DP right between the league episodes to get me hyped you retard. Dawn was good but her development was not even close to May or Serena
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>>28550032
Stop being so new.
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>>28549778
buddy.
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>>28550047
>it's wrong because I say so

it was not hard btfo you out.
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When does sm start?
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>>28550088
"November"
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>>28550033
You do realize that the most probable thing is that they won't ackowledge any past adventure besides "oh I've seen that Pokemon before, I don't know the type, so I will attack it with the least effective one lmao!"
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>>28550104
Yeah, I know. Just being optimistic while I can.

At least the games look good.
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>>28550011
>hero
>he gathered megaenergy to control Zygarde
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>>28550047
Onions? Like, ogres?
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>>28550071
Underrated post
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>>28550062
Dawn's development had her trying to live up to her mothers name while also carving out her own style. She was also less arrogant and vain as DP progressed.
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>commercial breaks showed Charizard, Infernape, Sceptile, and Krookodile, with Ash Greninja as the answer twice
>Ash Greninja fails to beat a weakened Mega Charizard and also does nothing of note during the climax, at least enough to justify Olympia's prophecy
What did they mean by this?
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>>28550121

But he saved Harisan, even Manon agrees he dindu nuffin
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>>28550129
She compared herself to her mother is not development. Is was there from the start. Saying against her mother or putting it aside and understand that she need to got her own path would be development like Serena telling her mother she didn't want to be a rhyhorn racer which was developed from the start. This was never concluded or anything. It was just there from start to finish. And I didn't say she didn't have development. Just a lot less than Serena and May.
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>>28550062
>May
May was boring as fuck and had literally no personality other than getting shit handed to her.
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>>28550162
>FUCK THE FANS AND FUCK THE LITTLE BIT OF STORY IT HAD!
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>>28550162
>The execs have forced us to do this
>We didn't want XY to end like this
>Sorry to every one of you Pokemon fans
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>>28550162
This probably irks me the most. For all the buildup about that prophecy bullshit and Satoshi and Greninja being special, they really dropped the ball hard with this one.
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>>28550040
Nothing, that's just a TPCi apologist. Their dub is shit.

>>>28549761
Cathcart pls.
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>>28550129
>people still bitching about S&M
>when Smugchu is here
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>>28550189
>can't beat a zard that KO ten mega evolutions in a row with only a super potion and a berry that cures poison and the last opponent being an elite 4 which he OHKO with blast burn
>literally did all the heavy work in the team flare arch

Still his strongest pokemon by a long shot
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>>28549668
The writers in Japan are way better than TPCi's garbage pot of slang, rhymes, and alliterations. They're still shit, but the dub writers are an abomination.
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>>28550162
It found Chespin :^)

Alan couldn't have saved Chespin if it weren't for Greninja. Thank you Greninja.
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>>28550206
I actually feel this may have some merit.
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plot twist: SM Ash frequently calls in oakmons for all kinds of riding shit and stuff
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>"the animation in SM is awful!"
>proceed to post a still of an inbetween as proof
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>>28550266

And thanks Charizard for saving them again. After Serena's shitmon Braixen too.
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>>28550186
Yeah, later he suck my dick too, so what? Alan destroyed XY&Z in too many aspects
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>>28550245
Oh I agree, the dubbers are shit, but there's a diamond in the shit
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>>28550287
>it's one that actually makes the animation look good, too
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>>28548862
David productions is doing it.
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>>28550162
>please help us, we want Satoshi to win but the fucking producer-san won't let us

>save us
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>>28550287
People are saying and meaning the artstyle is garbage you massive retard. Not the animation
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>>28550287
The problem with the SM anime is is that everything looks like an inbetween shot.
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>>28550217
I am not arguing that the dub is good, I'm pointing out that even they remembered that a major franchise character already appeared and thought to keep something consistent between both appearences
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>>28550287
>it was the best they could find to put in the trailer

Really makes you think.
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>>28550294
>Charizard's smug ass face as it's carrying Ash.

It's laughing at everyone.
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>>28550302
You realize the obvious reason Daigo was recast in XY was because his original voice was really unsuited for the fujoshit bait direction they were taking him in, right? Have you even seen the original AG episode he was in?
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Ash really should have just became a Frontier Brain.
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Can you imagine the SM dub?
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So who's with me in tearing this piece of shit to shreds on a weekly basis
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>>28550364
DON'T YOU DARE
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>>28550337
it's just the first teaser
the first XY teaser just had ash coming out of the plane and a few seconds of the starters being cute
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>>28550318
Actually, there is no such thing as an "art style"
Art is a medium that comes in categories, such as anime. But Art can't be "styled" it's just a common misuse of both words
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>>28550162
>>28550206
>>28550314
I swear, I feel so fucking bad for the XY team. Can we contact them in any way to let them know there's some people out there who know this wasn't what they wanted to do?
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>>28550372

I have better things to do anon. But I will screencap some quality when I see it.
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>>28550364
Combined with that shit animation it will almost literally be a Western show.
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>>28550287
Fluid animation =/= good animation

If they're just animating scribbles then it's not good

It also won't stay fluid, first episodes have the best animations then it declines and you're stuck with average animation and shit art style.
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>>28550372
I have better things to do like not watching SM, sorry.
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>>28550346
No, if you could clarify that would be nice.
The diamond isn't the actor in the dub, it's the fact that they for some reason brought him back despite refusing to use any of the main cast
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>>28550383
>there is no such thing as an "art style"
You are either incredibly pedantic or an idiot.

You can draw things in different styles. Calling it "drawing style" or "aesthetic style" doesn't change the point.
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>>28550434
But them not bringing back the original nip actor was done for a very obvious reason. It was not an error the dub corrected, it was a very conscious casting choice.
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DORAGOON GOOSUTO JIMEN HIKOU
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>>28550162
>XY apologists will allow this with the hahaha leaguefags fuck off you haven't watched since the start!

Is there a more useless pokemon, and ugly than Ash greninja? The design only grew on me because it gave muh boi a chance at the league or maybe do something good but this piece of shit did nothing it will be remembered for.

Actually I will remember it as an useless excuse to not give Ash a mega stone, because you know a fucking mega evolution is too contrived compared to the NEVER SEEN BEFORE HERO OF THE NINJA VILLAGE THAT WILL REACH HEIGHTS NEVER SEEN BEFORE BECAUSE OF THE POWER OF LOVE THAT IS BTW A LEGENDARY FUCKICG BOND.
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so generations tomorrow?
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>>28550382
And Ash jumping from a tower, and Blaziken Mask, and Garchomp going berserk. And better artstyle.

And looked hype.
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>>28550162
Does anyone have screenshots of this?
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AINO?!

The mysterious trainer who looks like Ash?! What secrets does this new trainer hold?!
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Is it just me or are the writers purposely sabotaging the anime? They can't possibly think this will increase ratings.
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>>28550468
Why? Because he doesn't sound like how he looks? What did old steven sound like that it even mattered how he looked?
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How do you think Ash is getting sent back to school? His mother is like "you have been traveling for so long you never finished elementary, go read a book nigger" or something?
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>>28550523
Alolan recolor Ash?
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Where did it all go wrong, /padt/?
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>>28550543
Japs have horrible taste in general, and children have horrible taste in general. So japanese children will love it as they loved BW.
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>>28550523
What if this isn't the Ash we know?
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WHERE'S
MY
SUB
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>28550567
When misty left the show.
This show was alright once, even iconic. Now its just well-oiled weeb bait, and idiots fall for it every single generation.
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>>28550556
>*wags finger* you're moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air
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Remember that every filename starting with "IMG" is from a shitposter lwhich is here >>28550490 and this was established a long time ago
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>>28550567
I...I want to cry so much.

Fuck TPC, OLM and TvTokyo.
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>>28550556
>Please go to school so your education can make a good income to take care of my old ass as single mom.
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>>28550162

>something only matters if you're the only character who achieves anything, fuck using all the characters together, all that matters is the main character is the center of the universe

Let me ask you something; what would Ash saving Hari-san have achieved? He doesn't fucking know Mairin all that well at all, and he's not the one who got the three of them into this situation, Alain was.

Ash doing all that while Alain just cheered him on would have met absolutely fucking NOTHING.

Meanwhile, the purpose of Ash Greninja in this arc was already covered. The ninjas talked about how the power of Ash Greninja wasn't for a selfish, personal pursuit, it was a power meant to protect.

And what's he doing in the fucking Megalith core?

GEE, IMAGINE THAT
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>>28550552
Very deep and tough voice. It worked fine with how they portrayed him back then, but it just would've sounded awkward and forced to have him do the suave gentleman act they gave him in XY. I'm glad they chose to ignore continuity this one time and went with an actor that fit this completely different portrayal better.
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>>28550556

"There's this school in Alola where you can learn to be an even better trainer!"

"Sounds awesome, I'll leave right away!"
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>>28550599
That's a pretty stupid rule of thumb.
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>>28550567

when you treated a bunch of speculation like it was a certainty
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The whole 'school' plot would be AMAZING if Ash was a teacher instead of a student. He has the experience, it makes sense.

Then Serena can come back in Season 2 after having done some training with Yashio to teach people how to perform and so she can learn new things herself.

They'd keep bumping into each other and wanting to catch up but can't due to their teaching duties and the students will ship them hard.
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>>28550677
Not when it has been accurate for 6 months
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>>28550700
I want KyoAni to animate that. With help from Madhouse to do the big fight scenes.
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>>28550662
The fact that this show is so forcefully tied to the merchandising that it can ignore continuity in plain view without a reboot is a sign of bad writing

The casting is good, the reason the casting had to be changed at all is a small problem indicative of so many other problems this show has
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>>28550556
>yfw Alan is the one that tells him about the school in Alola
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>>28550650
What was the point of Ash going to Kalos when he didn't achieve or learn anything? I mean, he did take in information, but he didn't apply it to any sort of end.

He accomplished less in this season than literally every other season, including OS and BW which at least had plenty of side tournaments.
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>>28550729
It's literally the only time they did a recast like that. Adhering to continuity in this case would have seriously been a bad thing.
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>>28550729

we're talking about a character who did fuck all in a single episode a decade ago

if that's where they kind of fudge the details they're not doing too badly
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>>28550506
>And Ash jumping from a tower, and Blaziken Mask, and Garchomp going berserk. And better artstyle.
none of those were in the first teaser
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>>28550727
Kyoani doesn't need help with fight scenes. Did you not watch Chu2 or Phantom World?
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>>28549626
>nobody has given another reason for liking Serena than 'she'd make a good wife'

Because is true, i can't think in a better waifu.

Design:

1 -Pretty honey blonde hair shiny like the sun.
2 -Pretty eyes blue like the ocean.
3 -Pretty white skin soft like the sand.
4 -Slender figure.
5 -Nice boobs.
6 -Nice legs/ass.
7 -Thigh highs.
8 -Short skirt.
9 -Fashionist. (Always dress in cute alternative outfits)
10 -She also wears cute accesories in the hair like ribbons or flowers.

Personality:

1 -Kind.
2 -Modest. (Specially when someone compliments her)
3 -Cheerful.
4 -Patient. Good with pokemon. (She was very patient with Eevee for example and Rhyhorn adore her)
5 -Protective. Good with kids. (Looks how she always protect Bonnie or Manon)
6 -Very mature for her age.
7 -Innocent.
8 -Friendly.
9 -Smart.
10 -Courageous.

Habilities and Utilities:

1 -Good making food. (Ash likes a lot the puffs she makes).
2 -Good at dance.
3 -Good at making clothes (Like the one she do for Hawlucha)
4 -Rhyhorn racing.
5 -Kind of good at battling even if is not her forte.
6 -Can sing.
7 -Can fly and knows about sky battles.
8 -Knows how to model in front of a camera with naturality.
9 -Know how to synchronize her pokemon attacks to make pretty performances.
10 -She also is a great help sometimes finding information like routes in the map with his pink dispositive (Don't know how is called).
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Is Adamant here?
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>>28550788
I have not. Honestly the last KyoAni show I watched was Euphonium, before that was Free. I don't watch a lot of their stuff, but I know they do cutesy slice of life really well.
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>>28550794
Yes
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>>28550816
Is puni chan kill?
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>>28549795
We need an Action Girl like Dawn again.

Sadly action girl moments will probably look stupid with this new art style.
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>>28550793
>Can sing
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>>28550762
I acknowledge, but situations like that are good casting, not good writing.
>>28550767
Don't care, I know Steven's unimportant, he isn't the core of my problem.
My problem is that the show even bothers to pretend to have a continuity.
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>>28550841
The new style looks to be super fluid stuff so think the Pain fight from Naruto. The inbetweens are all retarded but in motion it actually looks pretty cool.
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>>28550838
>>28550839
I already replied to those
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>>28550448
No, I'm an art student, I know what I'm talking about.
Art is a medium, not a thing you "do", it doesn't come in styles
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>>28550760
Ash never won any of the side tournaments in BW either. The only thing he won was a head band that Pignite won in a sumo contest in the DA arc.
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>>28550871
I'm waiting sounds more cute than we're waiting. Because it's more personable! I thought you were an Amourfag!
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>>28550793
The best
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>>28550890
>being an art student

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>28550924
Then sure, why not?
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>>28550793
She is the best female companion Ash has ever had.
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>>28550871
I wasn't even here when you replied

is the green go dead?
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>>28550846
Yes she sang Dori Dori remember?.
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>>28550890
I swear to god I've seen you have this argument before. Look, its a fucking colloquialism to refer to the unique style given to the works of art done by a particular artist or within a particular genre. Christ. Most people don't want to have to say all that though so we just call it an art style.
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>>28550760

he came in second place, and you're saying he accomplished less than a series where he did worse than the series prior

You know what, fuck this fandom. You don't care about the story or the character at all. You don't care about the ride. You care about "hype", and characters scoring points. It doesn't matter why characters do what they do, it matters that the one you prefer gets to do it.

I don't care about what he "learned" or what he "gained", so much as what we were shown. I care about what he was able to inspire in Alain despite losing to him. I care about his relationships with his travelling companions, the things he brought out in his Pokemon. I care about Hawlucha's parental relationship with Noivern. I care about Goodra conquering his fears and saving his homeland. I care about Greninja finding a trainer he could believe in, and that his "prophecy" was more about winning a monster cockfight. I care about the fact that Olympia's visions of the future had a pay off and that the sundial ended up being important in the end. I care that we saw the gym leaders again and Korrina got to come back, I care that they built a little on Grant and Viola's flirting from the battle chateau episode.

I care that the storyline we began three years ago had a bit of something for everybody.

I don't care about the league beyond the fact that it had some entertaining, well animated battles. I don't care about the fact that Ash didn't win, or that he wasn't the only hero of heroes, the champion of champions, who got to make out with Serena because this is a fucking kids show you were never gonna get a kiss to begin with

I'm sorry your the fucking ouija board you used to put all the god damn clues together tricked you into thinking "he was totally gonna win this time", but.

I don't care.

I don't fucking care what all of you dumb, stupid children think you were promised.

Y'all can kiss the fattest part of my ass.
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>>28550934
So I'm wrong because you can laugh?
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I'm just happy that Serena isn't coming back.

I don't care if they want to pander to shippers again, just no more Serena.
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>>28550936
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>>28550924
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>>28550946
No.
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>>28550793
I hate how she's not coming back, but at he same time I'm happy because the new art style would completely ruin her.
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>>28550954
I have nothing to do with what you're doing but getting an education in art is always worth laughing at
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>>28550967
It's not ruining Lillie or Mao, though.
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>>28550963
That's sad, Lysandre didn't deserve to die

For once the bad guy should win
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>>28550333
They didn't keep the main characters' voices and dialogue intact, and failed to establish continuity with that in the English dub, so that alone is a far greater sin to me than just acknowledging some guy who barely appeared in AG, like Steven.

To add to this, TPCi also removed a hint to Piplup being acknowledged in the dub when "An Undersee Place to Call Home!" aired, so they're no better than TPC Japan with ignoring continuity.

>>28550364
SM dub will most likely be a continuation of the XY dub onwards (aka TPCi's worst) with the crappy SM Animation...the dub has been unwatchable since XY began, though.

Can't believe 4Kids actually did the better Pokemon dub, really, absolutely amazing.
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>>28550949
So because stupid people use the word the wrong way its ok?
"Hurr durr pterodactyls are dinosaurs guys, I don't read books and that justifies spreading innacuracy"
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>>28550988
wait Chairman Mao's in the SM anime?
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>>28550760
>Runner up
>Achieved the least
Wat? This is his best achievement after Battle Frontier.
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>>28550948
It was awful.
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>>28550967
Then there's only one question left
Will they give Amour a nice closure?
Can we trust them?
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>>28551001
No, its a god damn colloquialism. It has BECOME CORRECT due to the evolving nature of our language. I bet you like to argue that people aren't actually saving money buying shit on sale but just "economizing".
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>>28551013

he didn't even WIN all of those BW side tournaments
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>>28550952
If you honestly believe pokemon has decent writing in any season, I suggest you go back to school and open a damn book for once in your life.
No pictures tommy
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>>28550988
Yeah and their shit, just look at Ash and see how fucked up he is.
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>>28551013
The last thing Ash won was the Battle Frontier, almost 10 years ago now...jesus christ, how much of a loser has he become?
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>>28550991
That reminds me he didn't die alone
They also killed his Pyroar and Gyarados
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>>28549022
Her bitchness did nulify any possible cuteness.
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>>28551035
Lillie is not a shit, you shit.
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>>28551023
90% of people who use the word "Pterodactyl" think that the animal is a bird and a dinosaur when it isn't. Are they correct?
>>
Holy fuck, the entire autism of the board is at all time high.
You can see the same faggots here spreading to other thread repeating the same tired bitching over and over.
This the Crisis in Multiple Tisms.
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>>28550760
>what's the point of Ash going to any region if he's not going to accomplish something that will matter in the long run, or gain new knowledge that won't be forgotten at the start of the next region?

The point is easy: sell and shill.
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>>28549145
Nah, Lillie x Sophocles is better. The fat guys never win. Look at Tierno.
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>>28551022
>Will they give Amour a nice closure?
Of course not, they have already written Serena out of the show.

>Can we trust them?
Absolutely not, all they have done the past few episodes is fuck us.
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>>28551032

yeah man I'll totally read Catcher in the Rye and Tolstoy and shit

and man XY would have become high art if he won the league because reasons lol

thanks for giving me something to laugh at on my way out
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Adamant, what did you think of the S&M trailer?
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>>28551085
Basically all you need in this discussion.

I would argue the biggest problem with the anime as a whole is one thing: Pikachu
They made it the mascot, and now they can't bring anything to a nice ending because it would mean ditching that rat.
I realized this the other day and have resented it ever since.
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>>28550952
>this is what 20 years of losing does to a mind

Oh god, my sides.
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>>28551064
Not him but it's retarded to move the goal post when you very well knew from the start what he meant by "art style". There's no reason to argue and act like everybidy should know shit an art student (fucking kek) knows
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>>28551064
No, but if I asked a room full of 100 people what their favorite Pterosaur 99 of them would most likely think I had a stroke so I would call it a fucking Dinosaur to get my point across instead of being a pedantic little shit like you.
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>>28551042
thats fucked up
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>>28551105
What about the league? I don't give two shits about the league. I love this show but I'm not dumb enough to watch it for the plot, and I won't pretend that this plot is anything remarkable.
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>>28551092
I wish Tierno battled Ash in the Kalos league.
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>>28551107
See >>28548945
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>>28550952
Holy shit Autismo, just say you just watch the anime for the CotD episodes, nobody will judge you.
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>>28551123

more like three years of these stupid threads with people "Ash will win da league" in opening posts without a hint of irony and watching you go insane to the point you do things like harass a writer on twitter cuz Ash and Serena didn't dance
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>>28551116
I'd add Ash and Team Rocket to that.
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>Zygarde transforms into badass mecha form
>firing draconic lasers and literally killed a nigga

>has retarded squeaky voice still

WHAT THE FUCK
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>>28551163

>call a person autistic
>say they watched for things they never even mentioned
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>>28551134
You said yourself that if enough people think a word means something, it becomes correct, but you also say that you're just accommodating your speech for people that don't know better.
99 people in 10 0 think pterosaur=dinosaur and that does not make it "become" correct.
>>28551131
How the fuck is using an analogy moving the goal post?
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>>28550952
>Defending the mistake that was kalos
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At least Alan the STu and the lucky charms bitch will fade into obscurity once and for all.
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>>28550952
>conformism.txt
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>>28551148

I never said it was high art, just that I enjoyed it, and thought it made good on its characters

if your reply had nothing to do with anything I was talking about, why the fuck did you bother replying?
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at least XY brought us the Greninja vs. Sceptile fight, which was undoubtedly the best of the entire anime ever.
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>>28551208
the point is technical speak vs layman speak. You're being a shitter by insisting everyone use technical speak about something very few do or really should give nearly as much of a shit about as you apparently do since you're wasting all your money on a worthless degree.

I'm saying its not wrong to speak in such a way as to get the idea across most effectively.
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>>28551214
>>28551229

>not actually saying why anything is wrong

aren't there some dubs you should be checking while you're posting?
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>>28551241
>Made good on its characters
Art guy should give you a reading assignment
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>>28550952
>I care that the storyline we began three years ago had a bit of something for everybody.
Except for Ash, he gets nothing but more jobbers to add to oaks ranch.
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>>28551249
Fucking this, that was a great fight
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>being this BTFO
>"I-I never expected anything...w-we only watched for the filler, b-baka!"
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>>28550793
Design:
- average body with no outstanding features
- ruined her hair
- new outfit possibly the worst in anime history
- virtually every SM girl has a more interesting design, as do the other Kalos girls

Personality:
- lol what personality
- bland mary sue with no real character flaws or conflicts
- virtually every other girl has some quirks to make her stand out

What the fuck are habilities:
- probably the worst battler of all the Pokegirls
- most timid of all the girls
- Clemont is the cook
- arc went nowhere and did nothing for the main plot, only took up contests because she had nothing better to do
- was the shortest and blandest contest arc ever
- no real character conflicts outside her crush, which she doesn't pursue or develop in any capacity and is just a context for some spaghetti gags
- can use an electronic map, holy fuck she's a genius

Serena is awful, useless, and most importantly uninteresting, which is why she has no reason to go to Alola over shilling the new sluts. She is only slightly better than Iris because bland is slightly better than obnoxious.
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What if this is just promoting the games and the real Alola adventure is being made right now?
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>>28551249
And then Shota and Sceptile proceeded to handle towels for an entire arc.
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>>28551251
It's literally incorrect, words have meanings. Single, strict meanings. If words are allowed to mean anything any average fool believes they mean then what is the point of language? Why don't we just grunt and shout at everything?
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Goddammit, you are spergers are awfully elitistic and pretentious for guys fapping to lolies, pokemons and watching a kids' show.
Maybe you should watch or read stuff for adults. i dunno. Don't yell at a fucking children's show because it isn't The Aleph, if you want Borges' storytelling, read fucking Emma Zunz, you tismos.
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>>28551304
>What if this is just promoting the games

But that's the anime.
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>>28551304
I'd like to think XY Ash is going back to Indigo to compete in the league there and win, while this "alternate universe Ash" does Alola.
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>>28551303
>posts Zinnia, the worst pokegirl of all time
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>>28551316
Well done underage, well done underage...

HOWEVER
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>>28551325
Whatever helps to sleep at night, Brewster.
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>>28551249
That really was the best battle. Shame that edgeboy and edgezard had to make it the semi final instead.
It was a finals worthy match that got overshadowed by bullshit and a rushed, trope-infested bad guy arc.
A real shame.
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>>28551275

you're gonna pull that shit, really?

People are complaining about Greninja "not doing anything" when his role in the big finale matches right up with with what they said in the ninja episode about that power not being for personal gain, but protecting others

and lo and behold, he fucking protects someone else in the final battle

But no, you people think adding up fucking promo shots and eyecatches mean you're going to get a league champion who saves the day single handedly or something
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>>28551174
>haha, I never believed in le XY, now see how I will eat a spoonful of shit just to prove you wrong lmao!
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>>28551325
Mirror Ash?
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>>28551311
You're the one advocating grunts and shouts by saying that language can never evolve.

Words fucking never have single meanings you absolute retard. Virtually every word has multiple accepted definitions based on context.

Yes there are different styles of drawing things and SM clearly has a different style than the rest. You being an """"""""""""""""""art student"""""""""""""""""""""" doesn't change that.
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So, Tomioka is the responsible for the show turning into the Alan Show, Featuring Maymayzard the Mighty?
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I just finished the Orange League shit.

How far away am I from catching up?
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>>28551164
Kek
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>>28551325
It's Aino, not Ash
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How does Lillie's hair work?
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I'm not going to lie to you, Lysandre was the shit

Almost destroyed not only Kalos but the entire planet
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>>28551333
Hey now, while his argument is pretty shit, there is no need to be mean to Zinnia. She was a qt.
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>>28551387
Years.
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>>28551369
>"I-I knew Greninja wouldn't do anything relevant!"

I guess Alan's Zard could also fit better in the prophecy thing, seeing as how he also protected people, and you know, was the actual hero and stuff.
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why didn't the megalith attract Fug when being in the open?
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>we will never see hawlucha again

I'm not fucking ready
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>>28551393
Can you stop with that shit, sperglord?
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>>28551397
The argument is 100% right.

Describing why you consider her your waifu doesn't mean she's an interesting character to watch, or that she warrants replacing one of the new girls.
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Did Lysandre really die?
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>>28551396
If Adamant's still here, why would the megalith and the sundial colliding cause the Third Impact?
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>>28551387
Just stop and start watching better anime.

Or watch XY until XY&Z37, then make up your own ending.
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>>28550793
>replying to bait

>>28551421
Because nobody cares about continuity.
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>>28551422
>we will never see Bonnie again
>we will never see Clemont again
>we will never see potato again
>we will never see Sycamore again

I'm not fucking ready either jesus christ hold me
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>>28551423
it's true though

Aino is the new protagonist of the anime
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zygarde killed the fucking shiny gyarados
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>>28550952
I ought to say that your words speak truth, that the ride was enjoyable, the pokemon he and his friends gathered improved on their skills, their personalities, fulfilled some of their dreams, that he, his companions, rivals and acquaintances learnt, fought for their hopes and fantasies, grew as characters...

But...

Do they all deserve to be forgotten?
His new and old Pokemon?
Left at Oak to hope for a recall during league/important event, separated from a kid that made them the greatness they are for literally eternity?
His friends, from Kanto to Kalos?
Sent to just fuck off and MAYBE somehow remembered when needed or during a cameo, to never interact with boy that changed their lives, not even letter, a call, a sudden visit?
His rivals? Gary? Paul? Even this shithead Trollbias?
To never taste again that thrill of fighting against trainer that gave them run for their money, who maybe helped them see their errors, or who just was so fucking satisfying to compete against?
This is what they deserve?
After 3 years worth of episodes, to just fucking disappear into nothingness.

I know, I know, Pokemon anime 'n shit, what you're expecting you fucking autismo etc etc...
But, gods damn me if all of this isn't just fucking depressing.

Why they had to pretend to have continuity, always on crossroads, always baiting newlings to buy and buy...
When this world got so damn dark?
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>>28551373

I was into XY the whole time, I just didn't have your delusions about it

>>28551285

see, there, you're doing it again. You're talking about points. Treating characters like things. By "something for everybody", I meant something to do. A role to play. Something to fucking contribute.

I could care less about who the big hero is, just that who does what fucking says something. Alain had to be the one to save Hari-san because it was neccessary to complete his character arc. Ash was there because he inspired another character to be better, and to help Greninja fulfill the purpose that was all but spelled out in the freaking episode that introduced the concept of his form change.

This isn't rocket science either! It's pretty basic fucking storytelling! Ash saves Mairin's Chespin, while Alain sits with his thumb up his butt, doing nothing to fix the problem he helped cause. What great fucking storytelling.
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>>28551376
Of course it does, I simply have more credentials and sourced than your.
Words with multiple definitions are absolutely useless, all of those extra definitions are built to accommodate idiots.
Look up the word synonym, and you'll see why the state of language is a problem.
Language will evolve once people educate themselves on meaning
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>>28551395
Like this.
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>>28551424
>people call you out as a troll
>you keep baiting telling everyone they need to list 10 things about why they like a character
>someone gives you 30 reasons
>suddenly this isn't enough

Seriously guys stop replying to him, he'll just move the goalposts until he has a priori ruled out Serena as being a good character.
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SERENA FAGS BTFO SHE GETS DUMPED
SUCH A FUCKING SHIT GIRL HAHAHA
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>>28550793
>>28551441
Do you think she will ever get her own special episodes and cameo appearances? Knowing that she has to be stuck in Kalos.
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>>28551475
They should just cut with the shit and make only filler episodes and remove all traces of continuity. At least, that way they can stop pretending to be anything other than a doraemon-style episodic series.
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Everyone has finally accepted Amour made no progress
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>Ash gets on the plane to Kalos
>he grows sideburns and nails and his face becomes a little more mature
>Ash gets on the plane to Alola
>becomes that thing
I don't get it, does the flight route between Kanto and Alola pass through the Twilight Zone?
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>>28551424
I definitely would not say it's a 100% correct argument. I mean, I'm not going to sit here and write and essay because there's nothing but shitposting going on with people trying to trigger others, but to name a few:

Design:
Entirely opinions. I loved her design, and short hair is something I and many others find to be incredibly attractive in a girl.

Personality:
It says no character flows and then proceed to point out she's bad at battling and is timid. Not that these are her only flaws or anything. Just pointing out the contradiction.
Her arc went somewhere in the sense of giving her character direction and motivation to improve and develop as well as giving an opportunity for more growth when she goes off to learn Kalos queen things.
I'll admit that the whole queen contest thing was retarded and they should have just done contests again.
I won't defend that the writing was shitty and they could have done a lot more, but then again, they could have done a lot more given the writing tools they had for this series.
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>>28551524
>Serena saved from the shitshow of SM

feels good actually
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>>28551463
You forgot Serena and Oak should fuck off Sycamore is better.
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>>28551530
Only if SM changes its art style into something that doesn't give my eyes Ebola.
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>>28551574
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>>28551502
>he protected someone else!
>that means the prophecy was right!

Where's the prophecy for ZardX and Steven's Metagross? They also protected people.
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>>28551475

You're suggesting they juggle 80 + Pokemon along with a massive supporting cast forever and ever and ever into perpetuity because of romanticism

I'm not under any delusion that Ash isn't in some ways just as much a device as he is a character. But what you're talking about is pure sentimentality and would serve to be nothing but an anchor around the show's neck

Accept the fact that while Ash and Pikachu may not, other characters may phase in and out of the show, rather than have all his teams compete endlessly for screen time, and old characters crowding new ones out.

So while Ash's journey shows no sign of ending, I'm okay with a few others doing it. Because there are practical reasons for this.

You should really just relax.
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>>28551463
Oh god why couldn't Alola have been the last season with Ash with appearances from all of his previous companions.
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>>28551577
>Implying she's worth anything anyways

kek
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>>28550952
Don't put everyone in the same basket!
I think you're right for the most part, but you're a little bit too much agressive.
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>>28549032
Those reasons apply to every other pokegirl except the soft spoken part. You guys really can't think of a valid reasoning.
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>and for your 20th anniversary, here it is!
>a reboot!
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>>28551530
Most likely. One episode for Serena and one for Bonnie and Clemont. It will be the XY animation though.

Dawn and Brock's specials had the DP animation while airing during BW

Iris and Cilan's specials had the BW animation while airing during XY

This will also be the case for Serena and Bonnie/Clemont's special
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>>28551463
I'm quite sad about Eureka and Citron. I liked having Kaji Yuki on the show, and enjoyed Eureka's shenanigans and smugness.
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>>28551625
she's worth more than you
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>tfw even Ash is getting dumped
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>>28551611
Ash's story should have already ended and we should have had a new MC years ago.
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>>28551591

>Greninja does exactly what the ninjas said he'd do in the crucial, most important moment

what about this are you not getting
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>>28551560
>I don't get it, does the flight route between Kanto and Alola pass through the Twilight Zone?
Pass through the Bermuda Triangle.
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>>28551653
I'm gonna miss this edgy bastard. Too bad he was apart of a shit generation.
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>>28551653
Well that makes sense.
None of us here are worth anything.
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>>28550952
Do you really expect me to read all that shit?

The nature of the show is it disposes of what happened in previous seasons. The only thing Ash retains are his accomplishments, and he got nothing this season, despite supposedly being at his best.

Do you not see the contradiction here? Ash gets the most hype ever, yet acccomplishes less than ever. That's the biggest disappointment of all. Even DP feels like less of a bait and switch because at least Ash had a series-long, ideological and character driven rivalry that he won, and he did way better against Tobias than anyone.
Meanwhile, Xzard remains undefeated, and Alain beat Ash every single time.

What the fuck was the point? Why even perfect the form when he lost the exact same way? It was an overhyped waste of time.
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>>28551668

yes, and if and when they finally do that, I suspect it'll happen with a complete and utter lack of controversy

hahahaha

you fucking kidding me
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>>28550523
>Japanese says "Satoshi in school life?!"
>Voiceover says "Satoshi and Pikachu"
You're a humongous faggot.
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>>28551668
Everybody always says this but you know if they actually ditched Ash the popular opinion would immediately change and you'd hear nothing but how the new kid sucks and isn't Ash.

It is getting ridiculous to keep him 10 years old though. Gary is a professor and Ash is going to elementary school, it's kind of jarring.

Why couldn't Bonnie be the one going to school and Ash comes along for a well-deserved vacation?
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why is misty so shit

And why is serena, may and dawn so god tier
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>>28551699

>it's long so I won't bother to respond properly to it

Allow me to return the favor
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>>28551581
I think Serena needs a good sendoff and a good closure for Amour that leaves it a bit open ended. She needs to be memorable at least like Dawn if we aren't going to see her again.
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>>28551699
>Ash gets the most hype ever, yet acccomplishes less than ever.

To be fair, he finally made it to the Finals and had an actually competitive match against a proven strong trainer.

XY's league was disappointing but it was miles ahead of him losing to Tobias or that kid who forgot to bring a full team of 6.
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>>28551674
>the plane falls offscreen
>a different plane from another dimension is pulled in and lands in Alola
This explains everything.
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>>28551611
Technically, their journeys also don't end either, they just phase in and out from the anime, none of them completing their goals at all. So we not only end with an MC whose journey is as pointless as it can get, his disposable friends, rivals and other assorted characters also have their own pointless quest that will never come to fruition.

In a sense, the anime is like a meditation on the irrelevancy of goals.
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>>28551713
There's no point in keeping Ash if they're just going to fuck the continuity every single generation. All it does is piss off old fans and potentially new ones. Instead of drawing Ash in this ridiculous art style, they should have had a new MC who would fit the art style better.
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>>28551611
I am suggesting that maybe it's time to pass the torch.
Find new story to tell.
Invent new feats, without shameless piggybacking on works of people long gone, from business or from life.

Simpsons are suffering from this, capeshows too, all the tapeworm franchises likewise. Nobody sane tries to force sequels of old works as something new, you won't see not!Hamlet being sold as Hamlet 2.0
Old tales are like wine. If you keep them open for too long, they go bad.

Ash's tale got too long for it's own good.
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>>28551721
I want Serena and Dawn in the same series. Just so I like to see their chemistry together.
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>>28551673
Protecting? He would have done it even without a prophecy, or without the super forme. Hell, any other ace would have done the same.
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How am I supposed to even care about Ash if he is, as a general factor, nothing more than the means for the ride? He developed in Kalos and all he got was a slap to the face as Alain took the spotlight. Now the next season will do the standard generational reset and looks to be revising his character to boot.

If your motherfucking protagonist is not allowed genuine progression, then what's the point? We, as fans and players, progressed in game skill and series knowledge, so why must we be represented by an eternally-ten kid that is nothing more than a perspective for adventures that see out their course and don't matter afterwards?
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>>28551761
Me too
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>>28551721
>And why is serena, may and dawn so god tier
Because they're the holy trinity of pokemon.
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Just showed my 12 year old brother the sm trailer.
Quoting

>Hahahaha, are you serious? No way that's Ash he was so cool in xy and he looked older too. No way that's Ash. He looks like he is 6. I'm not even going to bother watching that he looks stupid. That's stupid.
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>>28551731
If you want real closure she should at the very least confess, but say that she doesn't need a reply right away. It wouldn't even matter to me if she never showed up in the anime again, at least there would have been closure. But knowing Pokemon, she won't say anything and we'll never see her again anyway.
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>>28551756
>Invent new feats, without shameless piggybacking on works of people long gone, from business or from life.

the anime has had most of the same writers for years no. But. sure. whatever you think, man.
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>>28551668
we do now
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>>28551721
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>>28551789

I'm certain your little brother is a real person who said those things.
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>>28551773
Valerie's Spritzee literally protected everyone from the megalith's blast. Where was its prophecy?
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>>28551778
The Mega Evolution specials even showed that Pokemon can still be good with a different MC. I sure as fuck didn't miss Ash during those.
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>>28551789
Your brother got good taste.
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>>28551744
Yeah, Ash losing the league again is more of a slight against the series as a whole, rather than just the XY season itself.
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>>28551778

how am I supposed to even care about about Ash if he's just a means to win a trophy?

"please ignore the trophies he actually won. we decided they were "filler" and don't count."
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>>28551857
I think there was a lesson in it, too. Ash lost because he was banking on Ash-Greninja to pull out the win for him.

The only problem in his calculations was that Alan has spent way more time with his Charizard and has mastery over its Mega Evo, whereas Ash-Greninja was a relatively new power-up and by no means mastered yet.

Ash thought he had an "I win" button - and in any other league he would have - but Alan just had a better one.
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>>28551744
It wasn't. At least with Tobias, you already knew from the first moment that Ash would have no chance at all, and that the best you could hope was him beating his Darkrai. There, Ash went beyond expectations and defeated both Darkrai and Latios.

The fight against Alan, to work like it did in the end, had to
>shit on Noivern and Goodra hard
>nerf Greninja massively and make Charizard even more powerful
>shit on Greninja's increased power after perfecting his forme
>make an asspulled, out-of-nowhere and never seen or explained again move simply not work
>make Ash forget how to counter an attack he had countered before earlier in the match
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>>28551841
But anon, XY&Z had the same MC as the Mega Evolution specials.
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>>28551865
Except not only are they filler, Gary popped up afterwards to kick his ass as if to show how little his progress actually mattered in the grand scheme of things.
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>>28551789
Does your bro like chicken?
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>>28550793

You are pathetic, kys
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>>28551893
>I think there was a lesson in it, too.
The lesson was that Alan asspulled a team from nowhere that is magically as well-trained as Ash's despite it never being shown or even mentioned.
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>>28551923
Okay, you've got me there
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>>28551908

winning only matters if you win forever and never lose again. Got it. I didn't know so many world series teams who had a winning season followed by a weaker one were completely meaningless.
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>>28551841
Well, as another relatively close example just given the history of the franchise - Yugioh swaps out everything with each new series.
Some just as popular as the original, and some would even argue that 5ds was their best season and saw some of the best sales with cards.
No reason why they couldn't have done the same here.
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>>28551789
Did the same with my 8 year old brother and he asked me why Ash was looking like a child and then he said "they ruined it".
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>>28551507
>state
Um, a state is a type of politically governed community. Why are you using this word outside of its singular meanings? I guess you're an idiot.

>>28551516
You don't know what a good character is. In the context it means well-written and interesting, not "would hypothetically make a good wife."

Where the fuck did I say you need a specific number of things? I said list things that make her an interesting character worth keeping in lieu of a new girl.

>>28551564
I didn't say she's bad at battling, just not as good as the other girls. She always wins despite her lack of skills, which adds to her mary sueness. Also, look at the fucking section you're under, I'm talking about personality flaws. Being unskilled at something is not a personality flaw.
The arc's only purpose was to give them something to make Serena episodes about. It was completely self-contained, affecting nothing outside of it meaningfully. And its only end was to give her an out at the end of the season.
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>>28551897
A well developed character from that start will always be better than a character that was literally the status quo is person. Ash vs Alan actuallt felt like an very equal match in which Ash fought a very well developed opponent that from the start has been shown to be a power house. Only because you were able to accept that Ash would lose the first time you saw Tobias doesn't mean he had it was in any way better.
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>>28551865
>the trophies he actually won
>le orange memeleague
>le in-season filler tournaments he won

He only won a Battle Frontier challenge 10 years ago (which he could keep challenge in the same way gyms work), while still not winning a single main league tournament.

Nobody is asking him to become a boring invincible hero that will win every single league from now on. Just to win one after 20 years of anime. And then, maybe, make him lose and win, alternating wins and losses.
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>>28551963
Yugioh HAS to do it, since they wanted to make new anime series after adapting the manga and weren't allowed to continue the already finished story from that.
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perfection
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>>28551963

Zexal did better commercially than 5D's

yanno

the one everyone hated?
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>>28551960
Stop being a sperg.
It's not all about victory, but the fact of the matter is that Ash is not allowed to show permanent and true development. He'll get better over the course of a generation and assemble a team, and then get trashed after all of his hard work time and time again so the series can run eternal. Even in Alola, which has no league, Ash will probably rise up and then learn his best means little in the long term, reset for the next gen and start over.

There's reasons why the Japanese fans hate the anime series even more than we do.
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>>28551969
Maybe I should try showing my 6 year old. She isn't very interested in the anime though or pokemon at all for that matter.
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>>28551986

if you think him winning a league won't create expectations that he should win absolutely everyone afterwards, you are extremely fucking naive
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>>28552007
She really is.
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>>28551982
Because, for all intents and purposes, Alan is just a Tobias with backstory. Ash didn't even get a single win against either, both appeared at the league not to conclude any rivalry but to make Ash lose, and the difference is that Alan stayed for the TF arc to hog the spotlight and become the hero the main character, apparently, will never be.
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>>28552018
>There's reasons why the Japanese fans hate the anime series even more than we do.

anon, it may surprise you, but there are obnoxious and unpleasable fans in every country
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>>28552010
I didn't really follow Zexal all that much. I watched it for about 30 episodes and stopped. Can't remember the reason.
It wasn't too bad or too great from what I remember.
The game's meta was fun as fuck though.
Either way, though, that only proves my point more.
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>>28552052
>>28552052
>>28552052
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>>28552031
There's no expectations of that.
Winning a league doesn't make you a Pokemon Master, no one in the series has even been referred to as one, and usually a League Champion is never referenced again except, at best, in flashbacks.

Winning a League for Ash would just mean he managed to conquer adversity and win in that region. He doesn't magically gain the capability to win every region given the team matchup and circumstantial changes each region, and it doesn't suddenly undo all of his other losses in previous regions either.
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>>28552031
It wouldn't. It would actually add more expectations and uncertainty for the rest of the leagues, not knowing whether Ash will win or lose the next one.

Unlike the current formula where it is a given that he will lose no matter what.
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>>28551728
I didn't respond to specifics because they all fall under the same category: meaningless shit that gets disposed of at the end of the season and which Ash doesn't retain.

The storyline didn't amount to anything. Ash didn't develop and he didn't achieve anything. It was pointless. It was basically a bunch of non-sequitors that went nowhere. You might be okay with that, but don't act like it's good writing.
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>>28551831
I've no reason to lie, I personally love the new style.>>28548874

I've also posted what he thinks here before.
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>>28552051

Alain appeared at the league because Ash inspired him to fight and pursue something that made him happy, and so Ash could inspire him to make up for what he did as Lysandre's pawn

see? This is what I'm talking about. All you care about is wins. Scoring points. To the point you fucking compare Alain to a complete non character like Tobias, whose only role is to be powerful and have fabulous hair.
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>>28552029
Do it. I think he said that because he is a good fan of the franchise and watches the anime regularly, so he saw the differences and didn't liked it.
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>>28552084

the fandom sure as hell has a lot of expectations

the moment he wins the league, the goalposts are gonna immediately be moved to "when's he going to beat the elite 4 and become champion"

I'm sorry but I have 20 god damned years of this fandom being unreasonable. Not just because of the anime either, but because of literally everything about this stupid fandom.
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>>28551798
Well I'd like for it to be better than Dawn's goodbye episode. Just because she doesn't go to Alola doesn't mean she isn't going to leave Kalos. She might want to travel the world on her own, leaving her open to cameo appearances and special episodes.
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>>28552102

I'm sorry but as a rule I don't trust what people say about their relatives opinions.

they are far too easily made up.
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>>28552129
So why are you here if you hate the anime fandom?
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Why isn't there more cross-gen champion fanwork
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>>28552165

because fandom in general is an exercise in masochism, apparently
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>>28552129
>the moment he wins the league, the goalposts are gonna immediately be moved to "when's he going to beat the elite 4 and become champion"

Nobody would be rushing for that. They'd be okay with him tackling harder challenges on his journey, knowing that he at least has a league win under his belt so he's not still a complete loser. There's a wide gap between loser and champion.
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>>28551798
>But knowing Pokemon, she won't say anything and we'll never see her again anyway.
Lol they would rather have her get over her crush so they can say her character developed.
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>>28552103
To be fair, Alan's development could've been done better. I feel his attitude and development weren't proper enough for him to hold the title of Kalos League winner.

Sure, he is a bulldozer, but he didn't seek for the League victory in the first place. Satoshi, on the other hand, did. It's kind of a hollow accomplishment (which I guess it was kind of the point, given the TF plot. Still, it's the League. They should've treated it with more respect).

With Tobias, his lack of backstory worked in his favour in that regard.
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>>28552189

Guy

there are people out there who are still waiting for him to marry Misty

and you're telling me that there wouldn't be ANY people who shift their expectations from one "gimme" to another?

are you seriously that god damned naive?

he wins the league, people are going to be immediately asking why he's not handing the next region's gym leader their face. Or asking why he's facing a gym leader at all. Or a trial captain or whatever they're doing in Alola.

I've seen it. This fandom moves the goalposts. They do it for the games. They do it for the anime. They do it for everything.

My cynicism is founded on the basis of people being 100 % terrible 100 % of the time.
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Ash is getting younger. How long does he have?
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>>28552288

the league isn't anything. The league is a storytelling device, hollow of meaning until someone fills it with something else.

they just used it in a way contrary to what some people wanted. It being kind of hollow absolutely *was* the point.
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>>28552302
It doesn't matter what unreasonable people think.
It is not unreasonable to expect him to win a fucking league after all these fucking attempts and all this fucking time.

It is not unreasonable for him to make the first fucking step towards becoming a master, or at least a provably competent trainer that gets an iota of fucking recognition.

Even the most reasonable fans are rightfully fed up with these bullshit last minute bails. He deserves something after all this time.
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>>28552422

"it's not unreasonable to think Batman would finally stop the Joker for good after all this fucking time."

"it's not unreasonable to think Conan won't get his body back after all this fucking time."

I could do this all day.
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>>28552472
Those are not remotely comparable to merely winning a league. There is far more to becoming a Pokemon master.

And are you honestly citing capeshit's complete aversion to change as a model for good writing?

You have the same idiotic mentality as the execs who think winning a league ends the show.
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>>28552525

>There is far more to becoming a Pokemon master.

we don't even know what a Pokemon master IS
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>>28552525

you say that, but it's also naive to think that these things would come with a complete lack of controversy

like that comic strip you used. I'm sure that it's gotten a lot of mileage in comic continuities.

But who were the first to riot when DC talked about how continuity wouldn't be taken into account in storytelling?

who are the most vocal when something gets rebooted?

Don't pretend that people would be reasonable about ANY of this.
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>>28552554
Exactly. It's so vague that there are infinite possibilities beyond merely winning a league. Yet they refuse to give him even that.

A character who never wins anything is just as tiresome as a character who never loses anything.
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>>28552607
A bit of controversy is worth the story and character making an iota of progress, rather than having all his hard work flushed down the toilet at the end of every season.
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>>28552647

so let me ask you then. they do this, how do they show the new gym leaders if they're beneath him? How do you have him catch new Pokemon while using his super powerful veterans? What middle ground is acceptable?
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