>>26546585Yeah, anon's being retarded. Unless they're implying that it was the hype for XY that launched the threads. Which is also wrong.
The threads first popped up when the first few episodes and previews of XY came out, after the games had already launched. People realized that it sort of looked like the current team was actually trying to shake things up a bit (whether they actually did overall and will do so with the impending end of XY&Z for the SM seasons is another matter). Honestly, it was probably mostly noticing they had the female lead explicitly have a romantic interest in Ash, but there were other things about the better animation quality and direction the show. It actually looked to people like the show might actually have something that would progress. All in all, after it was clear that it was better than the shit show that was the Black and White seasons (mostly by making Ash not a drooling retard again), it got people hype enough to jump-start a general.
