>>43293093Yeah but he's the central character. If they executives really didn't want to keep the OSXY design(you know what I mean) they should have just used Chickenchan as a protagonist. Tbh, the show doesn't even need Ash after XY because he stagnates
AS A PERSON. He's being shoehorned into the narrative for the sake of ... recognisability, I guess? But in reality, it's a reboot in everything but name only. Nowadays I enjoy the side characters more than I do Ash.