Honestly, given how later generations introduced characters like Cynthia, Steven and Diantha who are champions while also having another profession, it’s a shame that they retired Gary from competitive battle in favor of becoming a researcher when they could have had it both ways.
Agreed. It’s even more egregious when you consider that not too long ago Flint had been shown to have been in the Masters 8 before suddenly getting knocked out of it with no explanation. The fact that they basically just used Alain to hype up Leon after they’ve spent the entire series hyping him...
Considering that at this point, they seem to be focused entirely on moving the plot forward, pretty low unless they’re shown to be watching Ash on TV or they, by some miracl, have May appear to meet Koharu.
You do realize that opening your post like that comes across as if you’re going out of your way to start conflict with someone by talking down to them right?
As for the rest, it’s reasonings like that that are the reason why Bonnie was better received than Max was in spite of being in similar...
Bonnie was their second attempt at a younger sibling and had a lot of things Max didn’t:
-Bonnie wasn’t an anime original and did exist in the games so she wasn’t just randomly added baggage for Clement
-They actually gave Bonnie a Pokémon of her own to take care of which later made her...
Max was basically ‘dead weight the character’. To this day I can’t even imagine what the writers were thinking with inventing a younger sibling to attach to May who couldn’t really contribute anything due to being too young to even have a Pokémon. Considering that we can’t get past a year within...
What’s interesting from what Dogasu gave us is that they wrote at least episode 27 before the games released. Since the prospect of Sobble’s capture was also tied to that episode, I wonder if their plotting of who got what starters was based on who they thought would be the most popular vs which...
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