>>53413127Aside from just relying on the point of dub, it's not just Misty, dunce.
The Kanter-starter trio had a fucking episode where they all came together for Ash and Pikachu's 3rd attempt against Brendon, they reminisce about how far they come, had a fucking bonding exercise about training in the forest, just the 5 of them.
In MPM? Squirtle became Angsty that Ash will forget him or that he feels ignored. That's the same level of wtf like the Pikachu getting jealous over Riolu thing. Why the fuck is the place and timing so fucking off after so much?
Besides the dub, their summaries, description on the official websites lists them all as friends. Another side-effect of everything getting niceified.
I have a good guess that MPM was a scrapped sendoff from Post Season 5,but just got digged out, dumped all pokemon Ash caught over years into the 11 episodes with Cilan getting stuffed somewhere and some plot adjustments as a broader reach.
MPM catches the OS-sentiment, but fucking sucks as the whole finale really hard.