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I watched DP religiously as a kid. I fucking hated it but I still kept watching for some reason. There must not've been anything else on. I don't know.
>Ash loses against nearly every gym leader the first time around
>Ash spends forever waiting for Fantina to get back instead of just battling the other gym leaders like they had you do in the game
>Ash gets a Gible and it never evolves to fuck shit up; we could've had an interesting "Charizard but instead of lazy he's a ruthless killing machine" character arc but instead we just get retard baby blob who doesn't know his own strength and ends up eating shit in the finale
>every other filler episode is about some one-off character and their shitmon struggling with an issue that can be solved in part with a friendly no-stakes battle, then team rocket shows up just to get blasted off which fully resolves the one-off character and their shitmon's problem
>Ohh god the fucking voice direction; everyone ragged on 4kids for not directly translating the anime, so now we're stuck with this awkward, stilted & rigid garbage voiced by people who sound like they're busy checking their twitter to read their lines in a convincing manner
CN liked to air reruns on the new episode timeslot without any real indication of whether the episode was new or a rerun so I could be exaggerating how repetitive the series was. Even though they had completely identical story beats I'd say the DP-era movies were the best ones we've had since the OG-era.
What fucks me up though, is how the series has only gotten worse. Back in 2010/2011, when I saw Ash lose the league to a literal who with legendaries pulled out of his ass, I was sure the series could never get worse. Then BW rolls along and Ash loses to a novice, who proceeds to lose to somebody else. What a shitshow. GG, TPC.
GG no re.
