>>52681319Unless you're Japanese, you aren't the oldest fag, and this is coming from someone who watched episode 1 of OG when it aired live. I later learned that not only did the anime air earlier in Japan, there were promotions for the game in magazine years before the actually Red and Green games came out.
I have been watching Pokémon since 1998 and have watched every season except for some short filler segments in AG and BW because they were too boring. I watched all of SM and Journeys even with the art style change.
I, and I think a ton of other people, am going to be dropping Pokémon for these specific reasons:
- Look at the premise of the show. IT'S SET IN A SCHOOL. This is antithetical to what the original show was about. The original setting was to be out on a magic journey meeting new Pokémon. The new show IS SET IN A SCHOOL. Sure, I'm sure they'll have adventures, but I can't get over that school setting and how it's now going to be like 90%+ of all other anime of its type now. I was only able to put up with Journeys because I kinda knew deep down that this was the last iteration of the show with Ash.
- The new anime is going to be designed as the SV games. I could not stand SV due to its character designs and boring plot (in all fairness, I enjoyed the post-game plot, but everything up to the Pokémon League was boring)
- Pairing a Japanese fair-skinned female with a doofy-looking tanned male.
I did not care when they did it with Brock. I did not care when they did it with Iris. I did not care when they did it with Kiawe or Goh, either. However, this specific pairing just SCREAMS "we're doing this for diversity purposes" and I hate it.
I might pick up the anime again for specific episodes, and I can see myself watching the end of the anime in 2024/25/whenever they get to the SV post-game arc in the anime as that actually looks like it might be interesting. The rest, however, I'm skipping.
