>>26878504>>26878504So Greninja, weak in plot, philosophy, psychology and, above all, personal passion, made it the script writer’s business to stagger the developing children and bourgeoisie attic-dwellers with the unexpected caprice of Greninja’s relationship with Ash, thereby allowing for the writers to dwell upon their ability to sell merchandise and market the pale frog’s derivative personality and superficial method of engaging life, thereby solving the problem of converting Greninja’s- and the writers- weaknesses into criterion for “success”.
Let me further elaborate upon the elements of the anime plot in general, and their relation to Greninja and those who hold him to a high, or even ideal, standard-
Every human being, kid, parent, scientist, artist, barbarian, civilian, imbecile, and intellectual, knows the fatal and surfeiting consequences of complete and exhaustive exploration: how it clings to you like a spur, how it nauseates you like a severe bout of indigestion! The very body, mind, and constitution of man as an organism with sentient capacities necessitates such consequences. As Herbert Spencer said in his Social Statics, “The repetition of a stimulus reduces the force of its appeal owing to the internal process of habituation that every human being, and any adaptable creature is prone to”. We laughed the first time Brock began to womanize; but the hundredth time we barely lift an eyelid.
