Went onto the next of Shudo's blogs. He just started talking about Porygon at the end, after spending most of the blog talking about female screenwriters and Team Rocket again, and my lunch break is almost over, so blah.
The female screenwriter thing is interesting because he brings it up again later for the Misty/Lugia blog that every shipper/anti-shipper references. He basically says there were no female writers for Pokemon during his tenure, and while he suggested they hire one, he couldn't come up with a name. He does acknowledge that they later added a woman writer (Aya Matsui) after he left.
>"The Pokémon script meeting is a bit too male and too cramped for female screenwriters to write. In the end, I couldn't think of a female scriptwriter who would be suitable for the Pokemon script meeting, and there were no female scriptwriters when I was developing the series. However, after that, a female scriptwriter was added to Pokémon. That person can write proper scripts, rather than feminine scripts...Ah, I'll refrain from making comments like this, as they may be interpreted as a gender-related statement."To Shudo's point, when Aya Matsui joined in AG, it's not like they decided "we have a girl MC now, let's have a woman write the girl episodes," like they did later with Akemi Omode and Serena. Matsui wrote some May episodes (like Drew's debut and The Bicker, The Better), but she also wrote both Wattson episodes and the episode were Ash catches Treecko. Her stuff was certainly a bit different from what the male writers were doing, but it's not like she stuck out too much from the experienced guys. She then went on to compose for Sun and Moon, so once again, Shudo was right about everything.
Blog:
http://www.style.fm/as/05_column/shudo158.shtml 