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Every fucking day. Every single fucking day this little faggot just sits there and gives me this stupid look on his face.
Between the reappearance of old running gags like Jigglypuff and how tightly-woven-but-reimagined the game's plot is with the series, SM really feels like it's written by writers who were fans of the anime growing up. Sometimes that's a bad thing, but I think it brings a breath of fresh air for the Ashnime. I looked at some of the names that replaced the older writers during the XY-SM turnover, and two of the three most prolific in the early part of the series (Yuka Miyata and Ayumi Sekine) do seem to fit the age range, both of them starting writing in 2009-2011. The main screenplay writer and series composer (the same role that Takeshi Shudo and Atsuhiro Tomioka held up to this point), Aya Matsui, had been around since AG, but largely in low-stakes episodes (The Bicker the Better and Steamboat Willies were written by her though, as were several of May's Contest episodes, so she has results). She also wrote on Dragonball GT, so she's been around a while. and she does trade off with She does also trade off with Tomioka and Shoji Yonemura (the two oldest and most consistent writers of the series). Still, it's pretty clear that she writes fun episodes, so SM's overall tone makes a lot of sense.
The point I actually ended up getting to was that no, SM was partly written by people young enough to have been fans of the OS growing, but not majorly. Most of it's charm is just that it's handled by people who know their shit.
