>>34715124I disagree. I can't muster the slightest interest in whatever Ash is doing because it's a foregone conclusion that he will, in order:
>lose the league>say goodbye to every supporting character he met over the course of the region, with them disappearing forever except for a cameo episode or two>send every Pokémon he caught in that region to Oak's farm where they'll never show up again unless their name is Charizard or unless Ash decides to switch his team up in the next league that he's also guaranteed to lose>reduce Pikachu's level to 5 so that it struggles in battles against much less experienced opponents>(optional) erase all of Ash's battle knowledge and have him make rookie mistakes regarding concepts he could very easily grasp in the pastNobody who works on the show is interested in making something that can engage in the long term, they just recycle the same concepts for the new audience of kids being introduced to Pokémon for the first time. I know I'm not the target audience for the Ashnime, and that's why I'd be satisfied if they regularly put out OVAs on the side detached from the Ash canon.
Origins has horrible pacing due to its short length, Red only goes through the cliffnotes of a character arc and just relies on Charizard the entire time (which is admittedly how I played Pokémon when I first got the game), plus the shoehorned Mega Evolution bullshit at the end, but I enjoyed it a lot more than anything from the Ashnime since the end of Johto—and yes I know Johto is not a very good season of the show in hindsight but it at least kept up the facade that Ash was growing and getting better, he didn't dump all his Pokémon at once and instead slowly swapped them out, etc.—because Red actually had at least the cliffnotes of a character arc and the story was self-contained so Red didn't have to reset. If it was 12 episodes instead of 4 and they actually went through the plot it could've been fantastic, and I want more game adaptions like it.
