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Maybe someone here can explain this to me - it boggles my mind how bad the anime is. Something being this bad would never have flown in America - like, maybe the old formation stuff was wonky and silly, but it never tried to tell a long-form story like this.
How did the show get this bad? Do the Japanese just not care about their writing? I get that it’s a big commercial, I understand that. But everything past the Orange Islands is just so bad. Johto was boring overall. Hoenn was less boring but not great. DP came closest to being interesting. They fumbled Gen 5 so hard, Kalos sucked. Journey’s referenced a bunch of stuff but did nothing interesting.
Kanto and Orange Islands were scattershot, but the character interactions had some edge, things actually happened, it seemed like some actions had consequences.
Why, /vp/, why, is the Anime so bad?