>>27956039It was likely an executive decision that the new anime staff probably tried to fight and the best they got out of it was basically giving the two episodes to the old staff who everyone shat on back in BW.
Some filthy ugly dumbass number crunching gook with a preconceived notion made the decision.
My god, I'd love to beat him to death. Can you imagine how soul crushing that is for the animators and the writers? That the story they've worked so hard to write and animate gets fucking castrated because some fat ugly balding piece of shit gook fucker thinks kids won't watch the cartoon anymore if Ash wins.
