>>34033416I fail to see your point. Ash did have development, but after so many regions he doesn't need much more development. Characters developing from a role model is not bad in the slightest and calling is love is an exaggeration. Admiring and loving somebody are two completely different things. Admiring wants you to make yourself be this person which both Clemont and Serena's development was based on. Ash being the actual role model for once doesn't mean all the character where there just so he could look better. It was used as a tool to help them develop. Their friendship was hardly shallow either. They had lots of different interactions, were placed in a lot of different situation and in the end really were a tight group. The last episodes really shows what Ash did for them but also how much they meant for Ash. Especially the last episode. It showed genuine sadness over their split up but also understanding for why it must happen which is what should be expected from the Ash we saw in XY. Ash's main development was with Greninja and his rivals and I think they did a fine job with that. I genuinely believe the XY group were one of the tightest and least shallow in the series as a whole.
