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That wouldn't be necessary at all. The seasonal progression seems to suggest:Honestly "Satoshi should be an adult now" makes little sense to me, unless you believe that it took him literally three/four years to collect eight gym badges.
How and why?
- Hoenn: About nine-to-ten and a half months
- Battle Frontier: About a year, give or take a month and a half
According to this analysis (which admittedly comes with its own flaws, but it's the best I can find without spending a boatload of money I don't have on DVDs), the Hoenn arc occurs from the summer to around late autumn or early winter. The Battle Frontier, meanwhile, appears to extend from one winter to the next.How and why?
How can you identify the seasons?According to this analysis (which admittedly comes with its own flaws, but it's the best I can find without spending a boatload of money I don't have on DVDs), the Hoenn arc occurs from the summer to around late autumn or early winter. The Battle Frontier, meanwhile, appears to extend from one winter to the next.
The author of the above-linked analysis cites original Japanese dialogue, occasions where the sunrise/sunset times can be discerned, and other visual and contextual clues. If I ever find myself in a position where I can check it myself, I'll be sure to do so and attempt to verify the claims.How can you identify the seasons?
The author of the above-linked analysis cites original Japanese dialogue, occasions where the sunrise/sunset times can be discerned, and other visual and contextual clues. If I ever find myself in a position where I can check it myself, I'll be sure to do so and attempt to verify the claims.
The show has spent a long time in a strange limbo between episodic (at least between series', not so much within the same series) and serialized, sometimes skirting closer to one line or the other.Y'know, I could probably buy the "you're not supposed to think about it" argument a lot more if only the anime hadn't been so nostalgia pandering as of late with Pokémon Journeys (to use the dub title). The Bulbasaur Garden knockoff and the Ho-Oh episode were especially egregious with the marketing and whatnot.
Basically the more the anime tries to bring up the past twenty plus years of history, the more it causes me to think about how Ash has been on the same adventure yet is still eternally ten. :/
How so?The show has spent a long time in a strange limbo between episodic (at least between series', not so much within the same series) and serialized, sometimes skirting closer to one line or the other.
Edit: At this point I'm not even sure Ash's age is the weirdest result of it, honestly.
I'm not sure which part you're asking about so I'll just answer for both.How so?
So time DOES flow in the anime, it's just not mentioned. I do agree that Ash tends to reset after each saga. Something tells me that the show would have been better off swapping Ash out after each region.I'm not sure which part you're asking about so I'll just answer for both.
Basically, events in the show clearly "happened"--characters learn things, develop, grow and improve themselves, they remember previous events and develop relationships...then the next series starts and there's a good chance much of that growth will vanish, and Ash in particular tends to have sudden competence shifts.
As for weirder things than Ash's age--that's fun to joke about but I find many animated shows ignore that sort of thing. Weirder, I think, is how Ash Oaking everything at the end of a series feels contradictory to his characterization the rest of the time as someone who loves his Pokémon and wants to spend time with them.
What reason does he have not to bring any of his Pokémon other than Pikachu with him on vacation to Alola? When he's going on research missions why not bring a full party for safety and utility reasons?
That's true. Ash has been going for so long at this point that time seems to not have any meaning in the anime.I woudnt even try to explain the flow of time. It would contradict eachother.
Some things we know:
-Gou and Koharu went to prof Oaks summer camp one year before Ash and Serena.
-Both May and Dawn got ribbons in Jotho, while we never saw a contest here
-Cilan met both Brock and Clemont, so time passed
They did?! Arbo explained to Nyasu that Pokemon only do bad things if their masters are bad, but by no means called them "horrible people"! In fact, that episode demonstrated quite clearly that Arbo and Dogas were extremely attached to those two, even in early Kanto!Team Rocket sacrificing themselves so that Arbok and Weezing can get away when these two Pokémon described them as "horrible people" during the episode with the giant Pokémon.
They did?! Arbo explained to Nyasu that Pokemon only do bad things if their masters are bad, but by no means called them "horrible people"! In fact, that episode demonstrated quite clearly that Arbo and Dogas were extremely attached to those two, even in early Kanto!
(Which is not, of course, to say that the TRio haven't developed SIGNIFICANTLY during the course of the series. In fact, I'm watching Kanto now, and they are (Kojiro most of all) almost unrecognisable compared with the characters they have become. Nyasu is the most similar but has gone from being jarringly unintegrated into the group, to the true linchpin. Musashi has mellowed substantially. Kojiro has almost undergone a 180 degree transformation from a flighty, unintelligent dependant to the mech-designing, solid, straight-man.)