>>50836358See, this shows you the importance of the relationship between Ash and the girl on turn. This is the reason why Iris was so hated, it was not because of the construction of her character, but how she treated Ash, ignoring any shippershit or self-insertionfag the audience expects to have a good time watching your show and if the dynamic of the main characters is bad your audience is going to get tired of watching your show.
This is why the dynamic of the original trio was so good, practically little or no romance, conflicts to the right degree and the dynamic of friends felt genuine, later groups tried to imitate this dynamic by exaggerating one of these aspects and the desvalance just played against them.
