>>52354057>it at least killed a good chunk of the self-inserting viewerbaseIt made it worse, revisionistfag. Kalos Disaster plus the abrupt artstyle direction announcement amongst the flames was a disaster to forever split perspective on things.
Then Ash won a league either because like you said, Writers lost their spine about stakes, or because Producer-san doesn't wanted another PR-tanking. That was like a knife into a scar. There were more faggotry about portraiting the significance of Ash's win (Using everything he learned his Journey with the encounters of various trainers and their styles against good rivals vs Go to school and maybe take on a trials to compete without any requirements in a free for all, with half of your opponents being absolute pushovers or jobbers).
Every 3 year something will happen that either rubs salt into objectivity of the comparison or it just cements negative reception of the characters from each series.
Fucking hell, it just gets worse with each passing series. Why the fuck did Yuyama thought it was a good idea to allow Tomiyasu and Yajima to direct their own vision of Ash? Couldn't he have just said these two hacks get together as co-directors and strike a balance?
