>>23388465I honestly don't understand how people find the two situations comparable. At least in Naruto all those shipped characters were cast members throughout the show and Naruto is actually known for at least trying to keep continuity.
Misty hasn't actually appeared as a character in the Pokemon anime for like over a decade of real world time now, and the Pokemon anime is infamous for resetting fucking everything every 5 years or whatever. It takes a special kind of autist to care about something like this instead of just picking up a fucking romance novel or something.