>>54738287What you say is cancer.
The garbage came with XY when they turned Ash into a literal one-dimensional Gary Stu. A self-insert power fantasy for kids and otakus who didn't hesitate to swallow the crap but ignored that it was a vile marketing ploy due to the low acceptance of BW anime. Self-inserters multiplied like a plague in XY. When XY ended and characters like Kirito from Sword Art Online had gone out of fashion, Ash went into another fashionable character mold of the time that ironically was diametrically opposed to the Gary Stu of amateur fanfics. That's why XY fans reacted so negatively to Alola Ash, because their fantasy of power was shattered into a thousand pieces. From XY onwards, Ash's character started to be prostituted, he became a meme, an object of audience self-insertion, especially XY.
Ash is not a power fantasy, he is not a Gary Stu, he is a very simple and ordinary character with no dreams of grandeur. The world championship meant nothing to him. I hope that if Ash returns to anime, he will do it being an unknown to everyone, someone forgotten by time but happy at the end of the day.