>>58243460Kinda. He choked HARD and disappointed everyone who was in his camp. but at the same time I find it hard to blame a fictional character for flaws that lie outside of their control.
Ash is a bit retarded, but thanks to the Tera Leaks and Shudo interviews we already know that him sticking around and losing practically every league save the inconsequential ones and SM is more the fault of Yuyama being an ass that just wanted to keep the status quo going and avoid innovating or changing anything for that dank easy paycheck.
I mean fuck, Shudo wanted to retire the character from the first season and actually explore the more nuanced parts of the setting rather than every series just being a light adaptation of whatever content and Mon are in the latest games.
It's like blaming Goku for being retarded in the newer DB series when Toriyama is doing the plot outlines for a series that he barely remembers by his own admission and Toei/Toyotaro are left to fill the gaps, with the former just constantly littering the series with memberberries and the latter just referencing things from the series he thinks is cool to the point of it bordering on fanfiction.
A shame that younger and more ambitious animators who were willing to push back on Yuyama's bullshit didn't pipe up until SM.
