All hail Nanu. This dude's shit talking is legendary. This is my favorite Gym Leader(-type) battle I've seen since Juan in AG. The whole thing was just okay up until the final bit between A-Persian and Lycanroc, but after that it took on a whole new life. The animation and camera work for the Black Hole Eclipse was also astounding. It was just cool. Ash wins, and we get to go back to the Alola gang. Hard to believe that they got me to forget that Mallow, Lana, Kiawe, Lillie and Sophocles weren't in the show for five episodes. Hopefully Nanu comes back at some point.
>>54099717I appreciate
>>54099744 giving it a shot, and I wish more people came into it open minded. I certainly did not during my first, very brief, watching and I was positive of, but less into XY than many. I can also totally get why the people who really enjoyed what XY was doing took one look at Ash's design and did not want to give it a chance. It is such a tonal shift, and if you were invested at all in what had come before it, it probably felt like a knife being twisted after Ash losing the League and Serena going the way of every female companion before her. It's fun though, if different.