>>12279096>anime's canon legitimacy.>legitimacy.Boy you're a funny one.
The anime is for young kids to help them learn pokemon. That is a fact. Not opinion.
It is also marketing device to sell the next gen to the kiddies.
>Thats why ash gets rid of all his pokemon.>He never evolves his starters (There are exceptions, but this is usually the case)>he forgets simple tatics "electric attacks are super effective on water? wuuut" 
