>>55414833That was them trying to make the reveal of Ash as the protagonist a relieving surprise, you retard. It didn't work because it was so obvious to everyone he was going to stick around most people didn't even realize marketing was trying to make it a surprise. Do you seriously think they were well into the writing and animating of BW when they suddenly dropped everything and started altering the in-progress episodes to write Ash into them or something?
They did the same "hide that Ash is still around" thing when DP started too, for that matter. Picrel is how DP first got advertised.
