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At first I thought that the writers simply didn’t realise (or want to show) that self serving and greed are a part of his character to be worked upon, or the character was coming off as such to the audiences, but they even disapproved that.Another thing to add when it comes to the anime basically coddling Go, the fact that the most recent episode ended with Go disappointed at not catching Farfetch’d and the narrator basically saying “But what about Go?” only for Sobble to appear. What about Go? It’s not as though in literally every situation that arises that he needs to capture a Pokémon. It’s honestly not the end of the world if he doesn’t capture something and for the plot to treat something like that as a major blow to the point that the plot has to make it up to him just makes him look like a spoiled brat who is upset they didn’t get their way. God forbid someone else gets a Pokémon and Go doesn’t when he’s already captured over 30 Pokémon in 27 episodes, 2 of which featured him spam catching. He gets no sympathy from me for failing to catch something because, at this point with his character, he doesn’t deserve it.
And now I have a larger question to the anime writers:
How do you explain one of the Seven Deadly Sins being a “good thing” and even worse, handwave it? What kind of message does it pass to the audience, specially since they think that it’s mindless children. What effect would saying “Your greed is good” with no further explanation have on them?
They somehow patched up a hole and opened up a worse one in my opinion. Simply not acknowledging the trait was a bad thing but fairly excusable, but acknowledging it and saying that it’s a good thing (specially with no explanation to clarify the stance) is exponentially worse. The flaws of the main character aren’t flaws because he’s the main character.