>>43232843I'm having a hard time finding the actual source since the original article I read seems to have vanished - but, I'm almost sure Takeshi Shudo at least talked about it on his site at one point; I can find information from him stating that the 4th movie could have been about a Pokemon Uprising, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was just his way of venting after TPCI throwing out his first script for the third movie and then changing the ending of his second script without even telling him.
Takeshi Shudo had a lot of dark ideas for the anime which he talks about in his blog and his books about the anime. Like Ash's father was a deadbeat who abandoned his family to be a trainer, Gym leaders were a government position you could lose after 3 losses, etc.
He also wanted the Ash Coma theory to exist well before it was a copypasta; he wanted the ending after Johto for Ash to wake up as an old man, his last adventures we see being a dream. After getting up, a decrepit Ash would groggily getting up, and he can't remember whether what he dreamed really happened or not. It was to be left vague, but the general idea was Pokemon was his and his friend's fantasy game and everything that happened in the anime was just a kid's exaggeration of real events, but being unsure, Ash walks off into the woods and is never seen again.
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