>>32078583It's kind of funny when you realize May paved the way for every female lead who came after:
- First new female companion and with her own goal
- First coordinator
- First beginning female trainer who was shown choosing her starter
- First girl who didn't know what she wanted to do before she became a coordinator
- First girl who didn't like pokemon
- First girl with her own rivals
- First girl who did a good amount of battling in the series
- First girl who cried when she lost a contest
- First girl to decide to quit traveling with Ash and travel by herself in a separate region
- First girl to get her own ending theme
- First girl with major fanservice due to her breasts
- First girl to get a pokemon from an older gen and same as Ash
etc.
When you stop to think about it nearly all the plots the writers did with all the girls who came after all originated with May, they just did them again with slight variations.
