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>series has about 30 episodes left before gen 9 kicks
>in a solid three years the anime:
>Ash only fought a whopping 6 remarkable trainers in tournament: Korrina, Bea, Iris, Volkner, Marnie, and Drasna
>Goh caught less than 200 pokémon and even his catches had abruptly slowed down after year 1
>Grookey refuses to evolve for some ungodly reason despite not having any marketing shields
>Chloe realized somewhere around year 2 that she wanted to meet all Eeveelutions
>and only now she wants to do contests
>Rose and Oleana disappeared and we never heard back from them
>Darkrai and Cresselia two parter was a fucking nothing
>Dialga and Palkia two parter was a fucking nothing but with recolor clones included
>only the Arceus special had anything remarkable to it, but it couldn't be assed to force the new pokémon back into the modern world as the Game Freak intends to do
>Project Mew has only had five missions, and only two related to legendaries
>there are very few remarkable fillers, and even those have been forgotten (remember the Cleffa that died? yeah me neither)
>and there have been more hiatus than ever, even with the pandemic going the way of the dinosaurs
This series is so half-assed it hurts. So much for the new format being a "good thing".