>SM series is so shit that writers have to bring Brock and

>Doing better in ratings than XYZ

>>33406510

It has nothing to do with the SM series being shit, Gen 7 as a whole is filled with Kanto pandering, and it's the anime's 20th anniversary. It was going to happen regardless.

If it was a ratings stunt, they would have done this back during XY, when the show actually needed it.

>>33406510
Well it's doing quite bad ratings-wise so it's not surprising

>>33406561

XY was doing worse in ratings.

Has nothing to do with ratings, this is just fanservice for the 20th anniversary.

And it's only for two episodes. After that, Ash and co. will be back in Alola and the show will resume as normal.

>SM doesn't even have a plot yet
I guess they are waiting for USUM for make a proper plot.

>>33406591
>SM doesn't even have a plot yet

It does, though. Ash's Island Challenge + the shit going on with Lillie. And Team Skull has been around since the first episode.

It has more of a plot than XY at least, where Team Flare didn't show up until near the very end.

lol. SM is constantly on top 10 weekly anime viewership . XY/Z cnt even break through ratings, and gettin demolished by Yokai Watch weekly.


There's a good reason why XY is the bastard child of pokemon (Incomplete and didnt have a third version/sequel.)

>>33406663
the kissing episode wasnt even in the top 10 charts ratings wise. sun and moon massive success in japan compared to xyz

Where do people track the ratings for the anime?

>>33406680
ANN
By the way, SM has already had like 6 episodes out of the top 10, and some episodes under 3.0. This is also its first year, but anyway
>ratings

>>33406680

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-08-24/japan-animation-tv-ranking-august-14-20/.120525

Not that it really matters for Pokemon; its real measure of success is whether or not the merchandise it's promoting is selling. Which it is.

>>33406699
lol yokai watch is dead

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>>33406510
>XYfags so delirious they think a good season doing good stuff means it's bad

What the hell is it about these supposed ratings that make them so popular shitposter material?

>>33406724
People know they don't really mean anything, so screeching about supposed good/bad ratings and hoping newfags get fooled is a good way to annoy people that know better.

>>33406724

XYfags will resort to anything to shit on Sun & Moon.

This has been happening ever since XY ended.

>>33406736
Shitposters were yelling about "bad ratings" and "good ratings" when XY was airing too, falseflag-kun.

>>33406736
>Scott is an xyfag
And nobody needs to shit on SM, it already does it by itself,

>>33406510
>XYfags being THIS desperate

Well, SM is doing it pretty cool since the beginning. Keep crying

>>33406736
>most of the ratings shitposting claims SM is doing better than XY
>blames XYfags
It's time to stop

>>33406753

>muh Scott boogeyman

>>33406724
They're not XY ratings and thats enough to trigger autistic REEEEEing and shitposting. Kinda sad that XYfags can't let go.

>>33406510
Because they are bringing back characters from the good series every gen. Since XY was so garbage and Serena being so one dimensional they had to resort to Kanto again

>>33406763
People have been saying these ratings shitposters spam don't mean anything of value since long before SM started. Go falseflag elsewhere.

>>33406510

>SM
>shit

Are we watching the same show? It's infinitely better than X/Y. more expressive and more fun.

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>being THIS invested in a 22-minute advertisement for the games and merchandise that will never have a satisfactory conclusion until the end of time itself as Pokemon is destined to continue forever since it'll never stop printing money

>>33406780
serenafags and anti-serenafags are in the same level of cancerous

>>33406797
B-but it'll be different this time! XY Ash is badass!

Shitposting asides
How are SM ratings?
I know there was a chart sometime ago

>>33406810
>How are SM ratings?
Irrelevant.

>>33406810
See
>>33406724
>>33406735
>>33406747
>>33406784

>>33406810
good. better than xyz. also ratings arent big its about merchandise sales. rowlet and mimikyu are huge money draws

>>33406810
They are whatever you need them to be for whatever agenda you're trying to push at the moment, and not a whole lot more.

Holy shit XYfags, just let fucking go already.

XY is over. Yajima bamboozled you. Just let it go.l

>>33406713
>tfw Diana will never look at like that.

Why even live?

>>33406818
:^)

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>>33406818
I know, I just wanna see it

>>33406831
>shitposting aside
>replies to shitposter

Do you people even watch this? It's been what? Two decades? Or are you just young and started recently?

>>33406810
Awful.

>If Serena returned: XYfags talk about how it's about time

>Misty and Brock return: XYfags talk about SM supposedly failing.

Writers just don't give a shit about Serena, mah dudes.

>Misty and Brock
Wait what.

>>33406872
>Do you people even watch this?

That's a retarded question, considering that it's been on the air for 20 years and is the franchise's biggest and most effective marketing vehicle

>>33406890
So, no?

>hurr they're good
>hurr they're bad
>hurr they're better than xy
>hurr they're worse than xy
This alone should tell you the entire ratings shit is just shitposters spamming bait and hoping newshits fall for it.

>>33406888
Anime's 20th Anniversary, and Gen 7 is all about that Kanto Pandering.
Though really this is more for the Japanese Kiddies considering the only means to see them without the internet is to catch reruns of Kanto Episodes on the Sunday Morning Variety Show, and this would give a modern spin for them to enjoy.

>>33406902
>to catch reruns of Kanto Episodes on the Sunday Morning Variety Show
That was 3 years ago you dildo.

>>33406895
exactly
this board is about digimon and SMT

>>33406902
Wait wait, I'm more confused of them coming back. Hopoly, I don't mind them. Just make it bearable please for their episode!

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>>33406882

>being so anally devastated that you resort to outright lying

>>33406895

Obviously yes, otherwise the network would cancel it.

The anime has a large viewerbase of children and a small viewerbase of manchildren who have been watching since the beginning and can't let go.

>>33406933
Pretty sure shitposters were screeching about how 3.6 were awful ratings back when that fit what they were shitposting about at the moment.

>>33406760
This faggot does this every day and somehow he has to get rid of his frustration

>>33406951
They did the first time XY fell under 4.0

>>33406959
How extremely unsurprising.

>>33406510
Ash is suppose to be 11 years old because of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4HjqAeJMOY
Ash ketchum and Pikachu 1 year anniversary

>>33406970

He isn't though, the director flat-out confirmed that Ash is and always will be 10.

He's a timeless character.

>>33406933
>3.6
Wow... that's pretty bad actually...
Not even XY was that low around episode 40.
To be honest, the fact that SM is doing so poorly makes me a bit sad (only a little though, not like I care about the anime anymore)

>>33407025
>To be honest, the fact that SM is doing so poorly makes me a bit sad
Its like when you find out your friend in high school is still working at McDonalds 20 years later. You feel sad but starr to realize he never had a chance.

>>33406901
Yep.

>>33407021
Is he a Lich?

>>33407021
Ash's birthdate in the main series of the anime, according to Takeshi Shudo's anime novelizations, is 10 years, 10 months, and 10 days exactly prior to the day he began his Pokémon journey.

1 year pass by.

Ash is 10 years old because of the stupid Pokémon Black and White writers.

This is what happen when you get too many different writers.
They contradict each other writing.

>>33407131
No, that's a mistranslation.

>>33407124

No. He's still 10 years old because of the different writers.

The original season had a different writer from the current season.

>>33407139
No. It's not a mistranslation.
You're liar

>>33407149

The director of the anime, the one who's been in charge of the anime since the original series, said that he's eternally 10 in an interview about the 20th movie.

Or maybe they just want an excuse to show the old characters in the new style since this series is the first time they've ever taken any sort of risk

>>33407304
>jerk off genwun
>taking risks
Anon...

>>33407324
I'm not referring to the pandering as a risk, I'm saying changing the art style was a risk

>>33407331
In which case it makes decent sense they're pandering because their risk didn't pay off and the series is pretty poorly received.

>>33407324

He's referring to the drastic art style change and the school setting (even if they're almost never actually at school)

>>33407341
That's more or less what my point is, but you explained it better. They actually took a risk in switching to a new and better art style, but they need old pandering to make up for it, plus seeing the old characters in the new style is cool

>>33407341
>the series is pretty poorly received

Trying stepping outside of /padt/.

It's not any more poorly received than the Pokemon anime in general is.

Autistic amourfags angry that Serena is gone don't count as poor reception.

>>33407354
You need better bait than that.

>>33407359

He's 100% right though.

Sun/Moon was doomed on arrival.

Not because of the art style or anything like that, but because of the backlash surrounding the Kalos League.

That is what killed the anime community.

>>33407367
You're doing an incredibly poor job hiding the fact that "he" is you.

>>33406510

>bringing Misty and Brock back for two episodes to celebrate the 20th anniversary

vs

>bringing Charizard back for an entire season

Yeah no fuck off, OP.

>>33407384
Can you stop being in denial every single time anyone has an opinion different than yours ? And it's true, just look at the XY threads after the Kalos league and before SM announcement. Utterly cancerous and far less active as usual, despite the climax of the TF arc.

>>33407423
>this mad he got caught samefagging

>>33407447
I'm not even one of those guys you were talking to, but whatever. At this point, your shitposting is as recognizable as Scott.