Certainly I think Greninja is more deserving of pity than censure.
Or Dusclops
Kiawe’s Charizard should have battled Ash in the Alola League then.
I'll say that the worst cases of this is Alain's Charizard and Origins Red's Charizard.
Or Ash's Dusk Form Lycanroc
Literally the previous battle Charizard solo'd half of Gary's team so if this was previous glorification era that gives you a idea of how bad it is now lmao
And even then, Dusk Lycanroc had a quadruple type advantage and was a young Pokemon in his prime fighting an elderly Charizard. Even with those advantages Lycanroc still only barely won, basically all but confirming that a Kiawe's Charizard in peak condition would have steamrolled the doggo.
True, but to be fair, that kind of feat is pretty par for the course for the regional aces in general (Infernape would go on to do the exact same thing, for instance), so that was less glorification of a single species and more just standard ace protagonism. Not to mention, that was Ash's Charizard, who is literally the only Charizard who actually earned his power through hard work and sweat and tears and even had to be humbled quite a few times. Other Charizards could still be canon fodder: in the Johto saga one was defeated by Ash's Totodile (a basic stage mon who was also Ash's weakest Johto starter by a noticeable margin), and later in Hoenn another one lost to Ash's Glalie (a Pokemon with a type disadvantage), so the species in general wasn't portrayed as inherently demigodlike.
Poof at least... Did things. Like, he had quite a few focus episodes. In fact, there was even serial stuff with Foop and the Harry Potter ripoff and such, which is noteworthy because it's a very episodic show. Iirc he even started talking just before they completely scrapped him (and Sparky) to make space for the somehow even worse character who shall not be named.
That's a really broad statement. I can think of plenty of animations from the west that have actual love put into its production and plenty of anime that are written by incredibly lazy writers. There is nothing wrong with comparing them either, because interesting conclusions can be drawn from it that helps put things into perspective about media. I personally love comparing Eastern and Western animation, because there's so many differences that can still produce the same results of either pulling in an audience or pushing them away.
Hey, just because you prefer Anime to Western cartoons doesn't mean the latter are objectively bad. Nor does it mean that the former are flawless for that matter.
Humour/Comedy quality, actually.
To me that sounds more like you just don't like the Western style of comedy compared to the Eastern one, which is less of an indicator of Western cartoons being bad and more that ut's just not your taste. I mean, saying that Western cartoons are inherently lacking in quality because you don't like how they do comedy would be like me saying that Italian food is objectively bad just because Italian cuisine isn't my taste.
I'm having a nightmare flashback to the Freeza fight.
Some things in particular invite comparison: Meowth was inspired by Muttley from Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races, for instance, though by late Kanto he'd spun off into a very different character.
Plot Twist: they never actually got off of Namek. They're still there waiting for it to explode. It's just that what happened afterwards was just a weird fever dream.
Yeah, despite the rivalry of Anime and Western Cartoons that extremist fans tend to show, those two things have a long history of influencing each other: a lot of present-day cartoons contain anime references and designs, whereas Ozamu Tezuka's biggest inspiration was freaking Bambi.
And I'm sure there isn't the slighest bit of bias in this statement.
