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I rewatched XY due to /padt/ contrarians shitting on it, to see if it was as good as I remember it being or just nostalgia glasses and now I'm convinced it's literally just as good as I remember and indeed it's actually a mystery how it ended up being so good given the franchise it's in and how awful the latest two shows have been. Everything in XY works, league disappointment notwithstanding. The OST, the animation, the characterization, the characters actually fucking emote for once, the villain team actually feels dangerous and stakes actually feel high, the emotional moments actually hit. Now, it was no masterpiece in general terms, it was still the Pokemon anime with all the limitations that carries, but it was so ABOVE the rest of the series in terms of quality, like, why the fuck was it so difficult to at least keep on that level? We're never going to get something so good for this show ever again even though it absolutely shouldn't be hard to do it, and it makes me bitter as fuck because there is no reason for the Pokemon anime to suck as much as BW, SM or PM have made it suck.