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>XY: When XY was being produced, the director (Tetsuo Yajima) told me, “I want to create a cool Ash that everyone will look up to,” so I acted with the feeling that I was a little older. Until then, Ash’s expressions and emotions were very simple and easy to understand, but in XY, more work was put into detailed facial expressions and attitudes/emotions. As for the move commands, I was conscious that I had to say them in a cool way that everyone watching would want to imitate.
So indeed Yajima is the one to blame for abysmal writing of the cast in XY. How can Yuyama and other old guards let this pass?