>>53801559They should have turned their mistake with Gary's 10 badges into an excuse to create extra anime-only gyms. Extra opportunities to earn badges would have given the writers the same leeway with Ash as they did the coordinators like you mentioned. They could have even made some of the badges earned non-traditionally, like how the Orange Isles posed unorthodox challenges to chaklenge their 'champion'.
Such a missed opportunity to breathe life back into the Ashime.
