MarshiyanMisutaa
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He'll be the first champion of Alola League.
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I'm hoping for that since the player character gets to be the first champion of the region in the games. If Ash couldn't be the champion at the height of his career (XY/&Z), then might as well hope for him to be the first of a new league.He'll be the first champion of Alola League.
I expect Kukui, Kaki and Mamane to join the league. And maybe even Lilie and Suiren too.
Winning a regional Pokemon League does not make one a "Pokemon Master." Thus, maybe the writers could give Ash a win for once (!) and shake things up, but continue to travel to other regions and still attempt to achieve that dream. This is the kid who won the Orange League and was offered a position of Frontier Brain, yet he still chose to continue his journey and better himself-the same principle can be applied if he won a regional tournament. If that's his passion, the writers can still have him achieve some victories within it rather than have him lose anything of significance.
Then I direct my comment to whomever has the most power/influence~But that's assuming it's the writers decision and not that of the executives.
And I think Alola will be treated as a major League because it,s in the games, especially if it gets E4s
But that's assuming it's the writers decision and not that of the executives.
And I think Alola will be treated as a major League because it,s in the games, especially if it gets E4s
The anime is selling well so they don't need to care.
But if it wasn't for the games, they anime would be doing shit.
Who wants to watch a hero who keeps losing and can get regressed?
Actually, this is not what he said at all. From your own translation:In the M20 interviews which I translated previously sometimes ago, it mentioned somewhere that the chief director Yuyama Kunihiko never saw Satoshi as a "hero", but merely a common 10-year-old boy one may find in every neighborhood. If I remembered correctly, there were also mentions in some English fanbooks of Pokemon series described the cultural difference between the Japanese raw version and English dub version of Pokemon Anime, where the English medium tends to view and treated Ash Ketchum as a typical chosen hero more than just a mere children in ones neighborhood.
But then, here is something I don't get it at all. If Satoshi is supposed to be a common 10-year-old boy one may find in everywhere, why made him do all the heroic activities that were to be done by the "heroes"? What made him so special that he gets the priority in meeting all the legendaries than those trainers that actively seeking for those pokemons for years?
That's why I cannot empathize with the thinking of the Japanese side, but sympathize more with the thinking of the English fandom. Because what they deemed Satoshi as and how they used him in the story is just two completely different thing. This is just like saying this guy is a waiter but you give him all the kitchen works to do not letting him serve any customers at the front end.
* Within the TV series, even Yuyama declared Satoshi is somehow like a "hero", despite he will quarrel with someone, he didn't show his weakness within these 20 years. Hence Yuyama wanted to revert Satoshi back to a normal 10-year-old boy who loves pokemons by using this chance of 20th anniversary.
Satoshi is always a heroic character since the first episode where he sacrificed himself to save Pikachu. What Yuyama really want was to make him a less heroic, more "relatable" person.* Within the anime series, Satoshi was portrayed like a hero. But in this movie, Yuyama wanted to make him into a normal 10-year-old boy who will become frustrated to the point of slander at other when losing battle.
Satoshi is still the hero. He's still the one who saved Pikachu by sacrificing himself, twice. What Yuyama want is to make him less of a "flawless hero" and more of a character with flaws, something like Satoshi from OS.BTW, the M20!Satoshi is by no mean any "common 10-year-old children". At that very moment of a Rainbow Feather fall upon him, Satoshi was already made into a typical chosen hero commonly seen in epic heroic fantasy stories, regardless of how Yuyama Kunihiko argue he isn't one. I really doubt does Yuyama had any understanding of the narrative differences between a "hero" and a "commoner"? TBH, I found too much of his wording contradicts with the actual result of the final products.
Pretty sure no one sees him as flawless, anyway.Satoshi is still the hero. He's still the one who saved Pikachu by sacrificing himself, twice. What Yuyama want is to make him less of a "flawless hero" and more of a character with flaws, something like Satoshi from OS.
Flawless in a moral way, not power-wise.Pretty sure no one sees him as flawless, anyway.