>>45885534I just think that XYZ is the ultimate climax of the whole show especially with the awesome animation and Ash being depicted at his highest level in terms of personality and artstyle. Also the scene where XYZ ends with Ash returning to the same house where he starts his adventure is really great. SM and PM2019 should have had new protagonists, there was no point in using Ash as the MC after XYZ especially with how the animators ruined his personality and design in SM. In PM2019 he lost any semblance of his former personality - I mean that he doesn't feel like a continuation of ... anything, and that's like 1000+ episodes into the show.