JapaneseVersionFan22
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After all the petitions of fans to bring Serena to the Alola region with Ash,why was she written out still?
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Clothes have nothing to do with this.
We don't actually know if there'll be showcases or contests in Alola...
The decision for Serena to go to Hoenn is indeed kind of weird though cause it's not like they're promoting ORAS anymore at that point of time.
Anyway I feel like Serena can be distinguished from May and Dawn. Unlike the two of them, the Kalos player character was completely customizable. They even emphasized this by having Serena change her look halfway through the season, showing how her look isn't static. Given that the player characters are all completely customizable now, they could have used Serena to promote the new games by putting her in the new player character's clothes (like my display picture). May and Dawn on the other hand are so strongly associated with their original design it's hard for them to use them to promote new games by slapping on completely new clothes onto them.
People also really seemed to like the idea of Serena wearing the the default outfit of the playable female character. I saw quite a bit of fanart about that from fans who wanted Serena to stay. I don't think that would have been enough to really have her promote the seventh generation though. Sure, Ash gets new outfits based on the new playable male trainers all the time, but I think that works because he isn't directly tied into the first generation as much as Serena is to the sixth. He is based on Red, but he has a more distinct design so that he isn't just anime version of Red. The same can't really be said for Serena when her design makes her instantly identifiable to the sixth generation and her video game counterpart much more so than Ash.
I'm kind of surprised that people are reacting this way. Characters lasting for only one series isn't new, especially with the female leads. As others have said, this has been the status quo since AG. The female leads, along with the secondary male characters starting with BW, have been replaced in order to promote the newest games. Serena is a sixth generation character, so she wouldn't work for SM given that the focus is on seventh generation Pokemon and characters. Ash and Team Rocket are the only exceptions to characters being replaced due to Ash being the lead and Team Rocket being popular. Marketing wise, it wouldn't make any sense to keep Serena around. Petitions wouldn't change that either. Most of the petitions came around shortly before or after XY ended and the decision to replace Serena had long been finalized. I doubt that they would have made a difference even if they were started early.