CrystaI
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The question in the thread of "Would the anime be as successful today if they replaced Ash early on?" just consequentially makes me wonder the preference of the audience.
Using the exact same condition as proposed in the OP of the above-mentioned thread, assuming that Ash (and also his friend Misty and Tracey) is being eliminated after the Orange Island saga, using Jimmy from the Legend of Thunder for the Johto saga as it was originally planned by Shudo Takeshi, and that story will most probably be completely new.
Then for the Hoenn saga, a new protagonist (probably Brenden or May) and a new story is on the run.
That goes the same for Battle Frontier saga, Sinnoh saga, Unova saga, Kalos saga, and whatever new saga that are in the future. New protagonist and new companions (if protagonist need any companions), new story with new villains, or possibly new traveling objectives for every single saga.
Provided that Pokemon anime revamp like this for every saga, are you still going to continuously watch the show?
Please take the poll carefully, because there are a few things I would like ones to ponder before voting:
1) Because GF create a new generation of main series game only in every 3 years (not including remakes), the length of one saga may vary from 1~3 years, meaning episodes of 52~156 for one saga. For how long are you be able to stay interested for one saga?
2) Although many said Pokemon anime in that case will follow the game story more faithfully, but that may not be the case. So are you still going to watch the anime provided that it may not be the same story as the game?
3) Also, anime may introduce some original characters not in the game into the main cast. Would one be fine with such original characters?
4) Some said that every new protagonist of new saga will just follow the same path as Ash Ketchum wanting to become a Pokemon Master, but there is no guarantee that this will be the case. Are you still going to watch the revamped Pokemon anime if traveling objective of the new protagonist is the same as / different from Ash?
5) For anime with revamp story, it always happened that scriptwriting quality is not fixed. Some saga may have a better story and some saga may have a worse story. Are you still going to follow the show if story quality varies?
6) THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION TO BE TAKEN!!!!! Provided that you have completely no preconception that Pokemon anime will turn out to be the one like we have currently if they keep on letting Ash travel to new region continuously. Are you still going to watch the revamped Pokemon anime?
For me personally, I don't mind they do that. Ash IMO is not really such an interesting character. Also originally I joined to watch the Pokemon anime not because of the existence of Ash Ketchum, but because the OS saga had an interesting story. I valued the overall story quality and smoothness of plot flow, together with dynamic interactions between difference characters including antagonists for whatever anime I had watched, much more than just the physical existence of a single character that is just there for the sole purpose to be there without significant progress. I'll continue to watch the show even if they replaced Ash, as long as the overall story with the new protagonist is just as interesting and enjoyable.
And just a little personal talk. The series works that I'm interested in, such as Gundam, Zoid, Macross, the non-anime tokusatsu Kamen Rider. I actually never ever watched the very first original saga of each respective series. Even for Digimon, my first one was actually Digimon Tamers, where I then search backwards when I became interested in the franchise.
I became fans of these series works despite that I never watched the very first saga, or that I didn't start on the very first saga.
Using the exact same condition as proposed in the OP of the above-mentioned thread, assuming that Ash (and also his friend Misty and Tracey) is being eliminated after the Orange Island saga, using Jimmy from the Legend of Thunder for the Johto saga as it was originally planned by Shudo Takeshi, and that story will most probably be completely new.
Then for the Hoenn saga, a new protagonist (probably Brenden or May) and a new story is on the run.
That goes the same for Battle Frontier saga, Sinnoh saga, Unova saga, Kalos saga, and whatever new saga that are in the future. New protagonist and new companions (if protagonist need any companions), new story with new villains, or possibly new traveling objectives for every single saga.
Provided that Pokemon anime revamp like this for every saga, are you still going to continuously watch the show?
Please take the poll carefully, because there are a few things I would like ones to ponder before voting:
1) Because GF create a new generation of main series game only in every 3 years (not including remakes), the length of one saga may vary from 1~3 years, meaning episodes of 52~156 for one saga. For how long are you be able to stay interested for one saga?
2) Although many said Pokemon anime in that case will follow the game story more faithfully, but that may not be the case. So are you still going to watch the anime provided that it may not be the same story as the game?
3) Also, anime may introduce some original characters not in the game into the main cast. Would one be fine with such original characters?
4) Some said that every new protagonist of new saga will just follow the same path as Ash Ketchum wanting to become a Pokemon Master, but there is no guarantee that this will be the case. Are you still going to watch the revamped Pokemon anime if traveling objective of the new protagonist is the same as / different from Ash?
5) For anime with revamp story, it always happened that scriptwriting quality is not fixed. Some saga may have a better story and some saga may have a worse story. Are you still going to follow the show if story quality varies?
6) THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION TO BE TAKEN!!!!! Provided that you have completely no preconception that Pokemon anime will turn out to be the one like we have currently if they keep on letting Ash travel to new region continuously. Are you still going to watch the revamped Pokemon anime?
For me personally, I don't mind they do that. Ash IMO is not really such an interesting character. Also originally I joined to watch the Pokemon anime not because of the existence of Ash Ketchum, but because the OS saga had an interesting story. I valued the overall story quality and smoothness of plot flow, together with dynamic interactions between difference characters including antagonists for whatever anime I had watched, much more than just the physical existence of a single character that is just there for the sole purpose to be there without significant progress. I'll continue to watch the show even if they replaced Ash, as long as the overall story with the new protagonist is just as interesting and enjoyable.
And just a little personal talk. The series works that I'm interested in, such as Gundam, Zoid, Macross, the non-anime tokusatsu Kamen Rider. I actually never ever watched the very first original saga of each respective series. Even for Digimon, my first one was actually Digimon Tamers, where I then search backwards when I became interested in the franchise.
I became fans of these series works despite that I never watched the very first saga, or that I didn't start on the very first saga.
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