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Got through the last of the World Coronation Series matches. In concept I really dig the WCS: A year-long (in Pokemon time) league of matches with rankings seems like a very compelling new take on the Pokemon League. The fact that it's trans-regional and uses all three of the battle gimmicks at the time should also make for a decent diversity of types of battles that happen. But in execution, I dunno. I think Dynamax isn't quite as cool feeling in animation as Z-Moves were, or even Mega Evolution. The actual scaling of the ranks seems kind of unintuitive. At the beginning Ash was fighting a bunch of no-name OCs (and Korrina), and that's fine because many of them looked interesting at least, but without the extra episode of build up that most Gym battles got in the prior anime, they ended up muddling together. Journeys is really really good at the slice of life stuff, which mostly focused on Goh and Koharu. But even Sun and Moon had interesting battles, so I'm not 100% sure what feels off here.
In hindsight, I kind of wish they had divided Journeys into two half-series. The first one could be the Ash Ketchum Nostalgiabait Retirement Tour, where he goes from region-to-region meeting up with old companions, using his old reserve Pokemon and fighting old enemies as his rises up the rankings to face Leon, then beats Leon and rides off into the bathtub with Pikachu. The second one could be centered on Goh and Chloe, and be sort of the first attempt at "Pokemon Horizons," where they don't use Ash or use him very inconsequentially from time to time. Maybe then they could focus a bit more on Galar. That would've been nice. I know the people who like Journeys like the Ash and Goh dynamic, but honestly, I think you could've gotten the same thing with Gary and Goh, as some of Project Mew has shown.