I don't think a Pokemon series has had as good a blending of the weird ass gags from the games (like the Hikers during the Akala Trial) with utterly impressive animated battles. The Inferno Overdrive/Dynamic Full Flame sequence at the end of Kiawe fighting A-Marowak was as intense as most of the most impressive stuff that XY had near the end. Whatever we lost in the style change is easily made up for the extremes that the animators can go to for SM.
>>54043613Lana's great, and Kiawe's funny as hell in a totally different way. While Ash is still kind of the same, he has his moments, and Pikachu is back to doing weird shit in the background like the OS.
I worried as much when I saw fewer Koharu and Dawn redpills on here. I've been warned once, and I barely respond to him. I can only imagine the number of people who've been banned and just said "fuck it." 