Soniman
Break the Limit
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Thats less his fault and more just the fact that the characters hes given to interact with never give him a reason to argue, Serena loves him, Clemont admired him, Bonnie liked him, Sawyer idolized him, Tierno was friendly, Alan was obsessed with him and so on. Hence why his big drama for said saga comes from his own internal fears and doubts with the whole Greninja thing then anything externalThe problem as I see it is that XY (In particular) trades in Ash's earlier brashness and recklessness for just increased competence and a tendency to never argue about anything.
Ash's default state is cheerful, this is not a XY only thing.The overall effect is that of a character who has no particular defining traits anymore - he's competent but not a prodigy; he's only not cheerful when showing token empathy;
Ash is a helpful guy, nothing really wrong with that. I guess im just not sure what youre trying to say here, Ash's defining traits are his good nature, empathy towards people and espescially pokemon, and passion for trsining and battling, XY didnt change any of thathe only ever gets annoyed or riled by evildoers; he's helpful and empathetic, but empathises with everyone's problems equally, regardless of whatever they are.
Agree to disagree then, I find the idea that he hasnt matured or developed whatsoever and only just watered down pretty ridiculous myself I and it just kinda goes with what I was saying with XY Ash getting a bum rep because some of his other traits have been played down compared to others.That's not to say that Ash was ever a fantastic character (I don't think the anime has ever produced more than satisfactory characters). However, I find the Ash of OS a lot more believable than the Ash of XY. LadySasaki puts it well with the phrase "blandly smiling". Ash hasn't developed or matured: he's been watered down.
Really isnt news at this point.This comes back to something I touched on earlier, which is that I don't think the writers really know what to do with Ash. A story that goes on forever, glued to a huge franchise, is already certain death to any sensible character development. In a standalone story that might end, you could have the protagonist mature through growing up, passing some of the milestones of life. Not so with the Pokémon anime, so the result is the mess you get from trying to have a character grow whilst at the same time never significantly change at all