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A key issue with Galar is that Gen VIII has been, how should I put, less synergy compared to previous generation. It's biggest claim to fame was the DLC expansion packs, which is something Pokémon has never done. There have been third versions of the game or direct sequel/partial remakes of the...

I would say Iris works better as a rival than simply a companion to Ash. As a companion, Iris is usually conformed to simply cheering and watching Ash from the sidelines. But as a rival, it makes the dynamic a lot more interesting. Especially if Iris was competing in the Pokémon League, imagine...

Another controversial opinion I have? I really hate how the term counterpart is used in Bulbapedia. Especially when there's a more appropriate word for it: Incarnation. I don't know why Bulbapedia used counterparts to describe Red and Ash. Counterparts are usually reserved for two characters...

The pushback ironically began with Pokémon Origins and Pokémon the Series: XY. Origins gave us Red as the protagonist, like so many of these fans wanted, only to show that Red is pretty much like Ash (naive, dumb and overly energetic). Oh sure, those fans would love to point out that Red won the...

Hehahahahaha! You know, the thing I like to do (and have no regrets ever doing) for trolling was directly refer Red as Ash. It's quite fun, really. To see them going into the same old tired justification of how Red is totally different from Ash, doing the typical comparisons. And I just simply...

Honestly, the moment you put in an in-universe explanation, it will break the suspension of disbelief within the setting and just begs more questions than give answers. That's what happened when comic books try to justify a continuity reboot with an in-universe Crisis on Infinite Earth...

One has to wonder why nobody questions how Batman still remains the same age of 30/40-ish while all the Robins and Batgirls that he tutored all grew up to be young adults... Or if you don't want to count continuity reboots, one has to wonder why Spider-Man is still a single young adult just out...

Tracey should have gotten a more striking character design in my opinion. He was bland in appearance, not really standing like Brock or even Todd Snap. When you look at future male companions after Brock, they tend to have more interesting designs or quirks that make them memorable. Cilian...

Personally, I think they ran out of time and money to give a proper finale given that there were literally two episodes left after this one. I mean it's like, after the Paul Battle, how could you make Ash believable lose in a quick manner that doesn't warrant another two-parter episode?

The irony is that Tobias only won by technicality. He had 4 Pokémon in reserve, but none of his Pokémon on the field were standing victoriously. If you weren't paying attention to the details (like it was 6 vs 6), you would assume Ash had won.

I agree that no matter how much Ash does, there would always be someone better. That's the one of the classic Shōnen tropes. But I disagree with the idea of Ash shouldn't win a League because of that. Ash can (and should) win competitions like anyone else. There should not be some impossible...

Speaking of Leagues, here's how I managed to get through the Lumiose Conference League mostly intact (minus any sleep) and without the whole total meltdown that the internet had. I judged the most likely League finalists Ash and Alain based on their characters, and how will they handle...

Heh! I already predicted this would happen a long time ago. And quite frankly, I don't care if it's a "real" or "not real" League. I just want Ash to win just so people can stop this meme of "Ash never winning the League" and maybe see what the whole point of the Kalos League was about rather...

And so was Charizard for a long time. Didn't get much relevance till Gen VI with Mega Evolutions, which is also the Gen where Lucario gets a Mega Evolution promotion. In fact, it was considered a joke back in Gen IV and V for being 4x weak against Rock, and people simply wouldn't let go of it...

That's what they said about Pokémon as a whole, and yet here we are now. And that's what they said about Lucario, and yet Lucario still makes its mark every now and then. And as long as Greninja is immortalized in Super Smash Bros, I ain't counting Greninja out yet.

In the games, released Pokémon are Pokémon that are permanently gone in a PC box. They can't be recaptured. But in the anime, they can. Do you remember Dawn's Pachirisu? It was captured by Dawn, then released into the wild, then recaptured again by Dawn. That cannot happen in the games. If...

And does that matter to the Pokémon writers? Given away, training, released? Those are fan-terms to categorize the status of each individual Pokémon for a characters. And fiction is not as observable as real life. It's like what the late Stan Lee said about the whole "Who Will Win" mania...

Oh you were referring to "should." That's makes more sense. Heh, I would agree with you on your opinion but I've been through a lot of stories in media like TVs, Internet, Films, Anime, Comic Books, Real Life, etc. for a long time. And honestly, anything considered contrived or ridiculous for...

"Not hard to believe" is the same as justifying a coincidence contrivance. Once the plot decrees that it happened, everyone tries to justify it in-universe and out. I don't need to make excuses for the inclusion of Serena being in Ash's backstory. I recognize it as a retcon (like many other...

Ash's Lapras briefly reunited with Ash in Lapras of Luxury. How convenient that encounter was considering there was no attempt on either side to find each other. A hundred to one chance. And Lapras doesn't even need to fly. In a world where a Bewear can travel from Hawaii to Japan with its...