>>44138101This isn't going to be true no matter how many times you people keep repeating and memeing it.
No one is going to watch the anime with Ash and Pikachu just like nobody watched or remembers any of the other flavor of the month side specials the anime has had before without them. We don't want this to be like Digimon where every MC after Tai just flt like a shitty knockoff of him and the fans eventually got sick of it and complained they just wanted him and the others back again.
Ash IS Pokemon.
Plus, if you get rid of Ash, you have to get rid of Team Rocket and there's no way in hell Japan is letting either of those happen.