>>51839330But they weren't, people just didn't care for kalos crew as much as weebs fixated over them, the problem was the dire cast. That they distanced the franchise so hard from that era, including retconning arsepull to being just a bog-standard Geninja and having Ash basically ignore Serena in the episode she showed up in (not to mention showing she'd grown and moved on by finally getting a Delphox) even proves that.
