>>52753137I hate to break it to you, but kid's tv shows REGULARLY make the MC the character kids identify the most with. The fact there's people starting cringe threads with that kid dressed as OG ash proves it's been alive as a trope longer than your miserable existence on this planet counts years. Kids want to be ash ketchum and kids stanning romance in pokéon want to kiss the pokégirl of the travelling party a ash ketchum. Do one, you lost. She got ignored, asspull got deleted and now they're wrapping up 20-odd years of Ash without any Gen 6 cancer.