One thing I've seen from Pokemon fans, when defending the Anipoke and Ash, is that they say this is the only 25 Year long character arc. I'm gonna leave aside exactly how much Ash has changed over 25 years but I have to wonder if that is less a compliment, and more the result of an accident. Shudo would not have written a two decade long outline.
And I wonder how many times the Committee got together for a meeting. The question gets bought up- 'Maybe we should end it here, he's done enough' only for Marketing to slap him down. And so the cycle continued. There were various points they could have sent him off. OI as an Honoured Trainer, end of Johto with the original gang splitting apart, winning BF as a consolation, Sinnoh but/for Tobias.
And perhaps what really changed the status quo was TPC's President looking at their numbers- Anipoke's ratings go down, box office revenue declining, merc and game sales at an all time high, and realising there is no correlation between the success of the anime and success of the franchise. At least, not anymore. Ash wasn't needed.
So they gave Tomiyasu a freehand to do as he want, even send off Ash altogether if he felt like it.
Hell, just look at SV. Buggy, not enough QoL or bug testing, no Ash in Paldea and 20 million units sold.
>>53424972It was less about race and more about coomers wondering if they were latent homos cause Goh was not a cute tomboy.
>>53424979>Ash is the Jane to Koko's TarzanInteresting fantasy you've got there Mr Yajima.
