>>53054963Ash's character got so flanderized and kodomified in SM and JN that by this point there's no reason to think of him as a cohesive character. Neither JN nor SM Ash feel like a continuation of the previous incarnations, it's all just a bad marketing project by this point, does Ash's victory against Leon hold any weight when the tournament was some Donut Steel OC competition with super specific rules so that Ash wouldn't have to do the GymBadge quest? It all reeks of filler, oh wait, at least in filler characters stay consistent.
Does this Ash, in a weird Bakuganified/Ben10ified artstyle interacting with Misty hold any narrative meaning? By this point no since his behaviour last episode was neither consistent with his or Misty's personality changes nor with the passage of time.
Ash meeting Misty like that would be more emotional and nostalgic than the casual "oh kasumi sama is catching some poketto monsuta!!! How unexpected!!!" scene the hack writers did.
Tomiyasu truly is the Mindy Kaling of Pokemon.