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Doing exaggerated gag faces is a really shitty way to convey feelings. It panders to the lowest demeanor, people that need to get everything explained to them and needs something to happen on the screen all the time. This is perfect for kids of course but above a certain age it's just becomes really bad. It doesn't make the scene engaging, what it does is making it feel cheap and extremely immature since the lack of showing expression and personality in a more realistic way is taken away and left is only empty, exaggerated expressions. This really tells what the audience of SM looks like. People that can be entertained by expression alone with absolute no deeper thoughts or build up behind it. Even if this is a fucking board for kids they are way more immature than the average poster which is quite sad really.
The pokemon anime has never been mature but with SM everything feels empty and a lot less serious. It just can't be taken seriously and every character feels like a comedic relief. Especially Ash that now is either there to make funny faces or battle, but now his battles are uninteresting because for some reason they chose not to keep his creative way of thinking and all the battles have been way to straight forward.
