>>53050569>Were they trying to make him "mature" by simply removing all of his personality traits?Remember those anime that has a stoic loner protagonist that nobody notices and a popular handsome guy that everybody loves? As those stories continue, the loner guy shown to be stronger & better while the popular handsome guy is just a pathetic weak dumb guy who just a punching bag for the awesome loner protagonist.
XY/XY&Z was basically that with Alain being the true protagonist while XY Ash was the handsome popular guy who purpose was to be Alain's punching bag