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I've never found Pikachu sitting/standing/being held by someone looking weird in any way.
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I'd guess it ties into how Pikachu doesn't really get character arcs outside small "beat this opponent" ones since the OS ended.
Like this team?tbh it makes sense for Pikachu to do that. He's consistently among the smallest cast members, doubly so in cases where Ash's whole regional team evolves, so him hitching rides on others helps make things less awkward for communication.
I think he suffered from "ran out of story arc" syndrome when the show got extended. Kanto had him going through that development; his arc pretty much ended when he defeated Dragonite as a conclusion showing how far he'd come from the borderline coward...and they haven't really known what to do with him since except for battles and cute scenes.Yeah, that always felt a little upsetting, to be honest. Like, Pikachu is mostly judged for his strength, battling capability, and inconsistency with said strength, and...we never really get to focus on him as a character??? Like the OS series really showed Pikachu's growth-from being kind of a coward to being brave and determined, as well as being more friendly and nicer to humans-and Pikachu was treated as his own character in DP with different relationships with the other pokemon that like...just dropped after BW?
You forget theseThis is like, super random, but does anyone else notice how Pikachu always seems to be sitting/standing/held by/on top of someone? Like, is that his love language or something?
EVEN THE POKEMON HOLD HIM.
LIKE THESE AREN'T EVEN AN EIGHTH OF THEM.
I don't think Kiawe, Sophocles and Goh have ever hold him? Or am I wrong?You forget these
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Safe to say EVERY companion has carried Pikachu at one point I think
I'd kill to see them give Pikachu an entirely new arc but based around something different.I'd guess it ties into how Pikachu doesn't really get character arcs outside small "beat this opponent" ones since the OS ended.
JUSTICE TO TORTERRATorterra was used at the Sunyshore Gym, though. It's just that it was made the fall guy. Just like in literally every battle it participated in after evolving, with the SOLE exception of beating Candice's Sneasel as a Grotle. But that's it. Torterra literally didn't win any other battles besides that one after it evolved...
Why must you do this to my favorite Sinnoh Starter, anime. Why
Serena held Pikachu like five times and will hold him many more timesYou forget these
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Safe to say EVERY companion has carried Pikachu at one point I think
In fact, Journeys could have even been the perfect chance to have given him one what with the whole G-Max thing. They could have shown him having problems with it (struggling to battle and be used to it leaving Ash greatly concerned), him worrying and feeling as if it will only become a burden for both Ash and his team costing him wins but after being given the decision on whether he wants to keep it or not (in say, an arc based on the Island of Armor) he learns to gradually get used to it before slowly and steadily getting much better with it, ready for when they face off against Leon.
I try to think positively about Journeys, and I don't feel that way of thinking is forced. I like it just fine as it is. And it's also something that, in a year's time, will probably be a very good setting for the anime to celebrate its 25-year run.
(Thanks! It's the same one I used when I first joined the site! I made a status post about the avatar change on my user page.)Maybe. Is it too soon to start wondering what the 30th Anniversary is going to be like?
(On a side note, you changed your avatar and as such, I didn't realize you were FinnishPokéFan92 until now...well, nice new avatar! )