>>57164000>TPC INCORRECTLY believes that Ash Ketchum is this Mickey Mouse level icon.He...kinda is. Not aging him has kept him recognizable but I get your point about him growing with the world up to Gen V. Ash was growing as a trainer, mentoring May and then kinda mentoring Dawn but showing considerable growth. If they didn't pull a reset with Gen V, he could have been a teenager by X/Y and got his first win.
Some Japanese artists alluded to him growing up.
