While that's possible, it just seems weird that they wouldn't mention more Galar Gym Leaders were taking part in the PWC. Having them in the tournament and not fight Ash would also just feel like a huge waste.
I was talking about how Journeys could have incorporated them instead of doing something with them now. Some of them did get focus in Twilight Wings, but a good chuck of them were still just given cameo appearances. Not to mention I don't think an online series of shorts makes up for them getting shafted in the main series even if Twilight Wings was really good.
How did Journeys have too much focus on Galar? Multiple characters from the games, not just the Gym Leaders, were never shown, plenty of eighth generation Pokemon were never featured, they barely went to any established locations in Galar and the DLC areas were largely ignored. If anything, there was too much focus on Kanto given that they spent a good chuck of the series there. I would have much rather seen them give some spotlight to the Galar Gym Leaders instead of barely showing half of them in the series. Despite Leon being Ash's goal for the series, Galar itself got little attention over the course of the series.
Exactly. Galar didn't get nearly enough focus. Kanto got waaaaay too much.
He's already thinking "10 more episodes after this and then I'm truly free. Yeah they might continue to chase me off screen but who cares? It ain't the same thing."
Satoshi's league team is 2/6 Galar pokémon, Gou is paired with Galar pokémon.
None of that sounds like too much focus on Galar though. Sirfetch'd didn't really get much attention after it evolved, which to be fair was a typical problem throughout all of Journeys and not just Ash's Pokemon, and Dracovish barely had any screentime outside of battling as far as I'm aware of. Dragonite, Gengar and Lucario seem to be much more popular out of Ash's Journeys team and aside from Lucario, I don't think any of them got any decent focus outside of battling. Two Pokemon out of six being from Galar doesn't really mean much, especially when normally all of Ash's new Pokemon are from the current generation.
Problem is, Journeys is not a Galar anime same way DP is a Sinnoh anime, it's supposed to be a world series and the last series of Satoshi. They already focused on enough on Galar. And it didn't mean much when you say Gou's Galar staters didn't handled well, since they are his only pokemon that actually focused on.
They did not focus enough on Galar though. Even by the end of the series, plenty of eighth generation Pokemon and characters were never featured. Yeah, Journeys isn't exclusively focused on Galar since it is supposed to be a world tour series, but they didn't even handle the world tour concept particularly well either. A lot of the then new eighth generation Pokemon, locations and characters were largely ignored in favor of showcasing older Pokemon throughout the series. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if they were going for a balance between old and new generations, but that definitely was not the case. Having minimal presentation of Galar like Ash's two Pokemon, Goh's starters and a few opponents from the region is not enough to say that the region and generation got proper focus.
It kind of does matter as to whether they did a good job or not at least. It's hard to say that Galar had enough focus or got too much attention if their job was lackluster or poorly done. Gengar learning how to Gigantamax from Allistar doesn't suddenly make up for the lack of Galar Pokemon or characters throughout the whole series either. What attention Galar got in Journeys was minimal at best. The number of Pokemon and characters not featured even by the end of the series is pretty telling. They definitely could have done much more to showcase the then new Pokemon and characters instead of putting them on the sidelines in favor of older Pokemon.
Galar certainly didn't get the most focus compared to other regions. Kanto got the most focus since it did have more episodes focused in the Kanto region or on Kanto Pokemon. Galar is only in second place in comparison since it did get a bunch of episodes since, you know, it was the newest region and needed it's time to shine. Doesn't matter if it's a "world" tour, Galar still needed the spotlight and had the disadvantage of having to share it with 7 other regions that had their in the spotlight. So Galar needed the focus. It's not bad for the new region to get more focus than the old regions because they their time.
I disagree with that. With that reasoning, Plusle and Minun episode should be a Kanto episode because it takes place there, which makes no sense to me. Not to mention Galar games itself focused on Kanto pokémon due to nostalgia.
That episode took place in Kanto, so I counted it amongst the kanto. If it took place in hoenn I would of counted it amongst the hoenn. Just how I counted the Vaporeon episode as a hoenn episode despite it featuring a Kanto Pokemon. Besides, while the Galar games did have some kanto focus, it's not the over did it on representation since only like four major characters had a Kanto ace while most had a Galar ace. Compare this to journeys. More episodes took place in Kanto than any other region. Haft of Ash's team is Kanto. Most of Goh's pokemon were caught in Kanto. Heck Goh wants to catch mew, a Kanto Pokemon. If there's any region that got too much focus in this "world tour", it's Kanto.
