>>55936491Man, I don't like SM at all but trying to pretend the meme guardians were taken seriously at all is downright ingenuous. Every UB encounter was a gagfest.
The only UBs that got taken seriously at all were Nihilego, and the whole Lillie and Lusamine subplot, which got sanitized to hell and back making everything clashing and weird, specially the Mother Beast stuff.
Oh, and there was the Necrozma stuff too I guess which was just Necrozma just in name and appearance.
And half the league is also gags and comedy too. Why do you think no one takes it seriously and considers it a meme league? Because it was nothing but hotblooded 6vs6 battles between Champion-tier participants?
A lighthearted show having serious moments does not mean it's not a lighthearted show anymore. That's like saying a serious show is now a meme comedy because there's a downtime scene of the characters relaxing and joking around.
And honestly, the show being funny or not at the end is irrelevant to the point, they set out to make a lighthearted show focused on comedy and slice of life, and my personal opinions of SM quality aside, I cannot say SM was not up the ass with that from beginning to end.