>>58842831>>58842844>Silver? Only in a intro to some Johto special.Silver wasn't very relevant outside of having daddy issue, Paul pretty much did better job than he did in any media.
>Wally? Non-existent.Nobody cared about Wally
>N? A damsel in a shitty arc at the end of the gen's lifespan.You mean BW series that run a humiliation ritual for Ash to promote an xenophobic racist OC.
>Bede? Marnie? Background characters.Blame Goh, Koharu and Alain for that.
At the end , Ash was never the problem since he always and always had game characters as his companion except for JN series. He stayed because he could attract audience just from the first episode. The problem was other new OC like Trip, Alain, Goh, Koharu that can't audience but the anime kept shoving them on people's throat.
>>58844925>People notoriously HATED the Ash shit outside of very specific regions, usually the ones where he was either funny to watch (Kanto) or semi-competent so they could comfortably self insert (Sinnoh, Kalos).The only people that hated him are self inverters because Ash wasn't some near invincible aura farming action hero that gets everything handed to him without any actual efforts such as Yugi and Jin-woo. This is why they also hates Subaru from Re:zero.