Very Insightful Spoon 2DI Interview with Director Owada and Writer Deko Akao

[BigDocFan]

Found this on Serebii courtesy of Dynamic_Fusion

The Recent Edition of the Spoon 2DI Magazine contained a long interview with Series Director Jun Owada and Writer Deko Akao.

Here are some tidbits of what they both said.

Worldbuilding:

Executive Director Tomiyasu ordered the Staff to make the Series feel more like Pokemon in Humans World rather than in the flip way around.
The Entire Thing with Chewtle is nothing but a gag in the Staff Department. Tomiyasu just told Akao to write whatever she wants with one of her Favorite Pokemon in Episode 41.
Owada was told to direct PM when he was in the Middle of Koko Production. Meaning his takeover from Episode 55 was not planned from the beginning.


Progression of Characters according to Owada

Koharu:
Search for the future with Eevee
Future plots involving these two
Koharu and Eevee will meet more trainers and Pokémon with different goals
Koharu and Eevee will take the different routes of evolution more seriously

Goh:
Becoming more optimistic like Ash
Overcoming more struggles and development
Becoming independent of Ash as well as his equal and a more mature version of Goh

Ash:
Ash will become more unbeatable as the story goes on
Ash will begin taking more challenges
The essence of Ash is aim for greater heights and challenge more of the unknown

 

[RetroPokeFan]

Ehh... nothing special at all here. It's just them explaining to us the stuff that they're already doing.

 

[KrspaceT]

I hate reality creep.

 

[Ashfan30]

If only Ash's achievements would be shown on screen than I'd actually care. We are half way over, how much of an equal does Go need to be? He's already catching legendary Pokemon, something for some reason Ash has been forbidden to do. I wish he had given us insight on Team Rocket's characters.

 

[LuxrayOfTheWild]

I feel like the anime has taken a significant step backwards in terms of world building. The Pokemon in the human world comment is just....It feels like a step backwards.

 

[goldenchimchar]

Goh:
Becoming more optimistic like Ash
Overcoming more struggles and development
Becoming independent of Ash as well as his equal and a more mature version of Goh

Did they just put Goh and "struggles and development" in the same sentence? Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[PkmnTrainerV]

Overcoming more struggles

What struggles does Go have in the first place?

 

[ii kanji]

The Entire Thing with Chewtle is nothing but a gag in the Staff Department.

If it’s a gag then why am I not laughing……….

 

[BigDocFan]

If it’s a gag then why am I not laughing……….

Guess they found it a gag, not everyone finds it funny, I don't either

 

[Jewel the Quaxly]

Ash will become more unbeatable as the story goes on
Ash will begin taking more challenges

...I don't think they know what they're doing here. How can Ash become more "unbeatable" as the story goes on yet at the same time have more "challenges"? Clearly, none of them might be particularly challenging if he's going to become more unbeatable at the same time.

 

[Daren]

...I don't think they know what they're doing here. How can Ash become more "unbeatable" as the story goes on yet at the same time have more "challenges"? Clearly, none of them might be particularly challenging if he's going to become more unbeatable at the same time.

It says more challenges, not greater challenges.
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Seriously, what is "more unbeatable" supposed to mean for the story? Is he going to stop losing to random criminals and wild Pokémon? Never lose at all? Is he going to defeat Leon then go back to jobbing in gen 9?

I'm guessing it's just marketing fluff we don't need to pay much mind to.

 

[Hidden Mew]

It says more challenges, not greater challenges.
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Seriously, what is "more unbeatable" supposed to mean for the story? Is he going to stop losing to random criminals and wild Pokémon? Never lose at all? Is he going to defeat Leon then go back to jobbing in gen 9?

I'm guessing it's just marketing fluff we don't need to pay much mind to.

Being marketing fluff would make much more sense to be honest. Ash being more unbeatable would just be kind of boring. If there's no chance of him losing until his possible match with Leon, then that could make it harder to be invested in his battles.

 

[nickdt]

Ash:
Ash will become more unbeatable as the story goes on
Ash will begin taking more challenges
The essence of Ash is aim for greater heights and challenge more of the unknown

So this indirectly confirms gen 9 will be late 2022, as they can't drag on the Hyper Class longer than that if Ash doesn't lose anymore.