>>38161019You can’t defend SM. That’s just retarded. The series’ entire plot concept is a contradiction on what the franchise is about and the entire premise of the anime for the past 20+ years. Ash going to school is absolutely retarded and what makes it worse is that we are 100+ episodes in and he has literally learned nothing of value, at all. And I’m not over exaggerating, I really mean he has not learned a single thing of note since he went to that school besides Alolan forms, which they told him about in the second episode. SM Ash, like BW and XY, is a reboot of his character, but this time it goes against the entirety of the rest of the anime. Ash never liked being stationary, he’s always on the go, ready to get to the next point of interest or something significant due to his love for the world of Pokémon. Him going to school on Melemele while doing the Island Challenge makes no sense. The Japanese name is literally “Island Pilgrimage” i.e. an “island journey”, so he should be going on a journey in Alola instead of staying on Melemele and going large gaps between each trial or Grand Trial on each island with no reason given to why. Ash has been in an island region twice before and with both of them he was constantly on the move, only taking short term rest stops. For what reason was Alola kept so game accurate size wise, instead of being like Hoenn where it’s literally an island with a huge archipelago surrounding it? Why did the writers intentionally restrict themselves with giving Alola only the 5 Islands for Ash to explore, to which, he barely has?
These kinds of jarring design flaws stick out so hard when you notice it. Why is Ash not traveling Alola like the player MC in the games did? Why is he going to school besides just for funsies? Why do we have a school setting with almost no actual standard school anime episodes, like festivals, rival classes, upperclassmen, dances, etc. etc? Find out, never, on Pokémon Sun and Moon.
