>>31741407It hasn't even gotten its feet off the ground, though. It's not really fair to make sweeping assumptions at this point.
Like remember when Team Rocket tried to be serious in BW for a while, only to go back to being goofy later in the same series? I feel like the same kind of thing is going to have to happen in SM when Ash realizes that he needs to travel to the different islands to continue his Trial campaign. He already took on the Normal Trial and defeated Hala, so it's not like he's just going to stop there, and it's not like the writers can just have all the remaining Trial Captains/Kahunas "just so happen" to visit Melemele and be prepared to issue their challenges to Ash right from the comfort of Pokemon School.
Right now it's establishing the side characters one by one, but it has a lot more significant side characters than past seasons have, and we'll work past that eventually. And considering Ash got the equivalent of a gym badge under his belt in less than ten episodes, this is a fairly normal pace for the anime from what I remember. Maybe even a little faster.
Basically, kys faggot Serenacuck, etc. The anime will be fine. Just be glad it's trying to change itself up a little instead of being the same dried up formulaic shit it's been for the past several years. This is the first time I'm actively watching since the first few episodes of BW bored me to tears, and before that, Johto back when I was a kid, and it attracted me because it's fresh.
