>>54042304For whatever reason, the anime part of the Pokemon enterprise was unsatisfactory by the end of Gen 6. They had a massive overturn in writing staff, they radically changed directions for Ash's character (not to mention the look of the show) and then switched the focus of the movies. No real sense of why, aside from maybe changes within OLM to take on more projects. It doesn't seem like XY or the XY movies performed awfully enough to make such a drastic change in direction. I enjoyed the AU Ash, so I'm not going to complain.