>>39929749Well, I guess the poor farewell of May in Pokemon was made by two reasons: lack of experience and bad decisions.
If we go back in the time, May and Ash had moments acting like childrens and others like teens/adults, probably the writers were testing stuff like the developing of characters (after alll, Misty left and animators needed fresh ideas). After Dawn and Serena, they had a clever idea already of how make separations.