>>34889891And yet we already know that upcoming episodes are starting to focus on USUM's storyline and Pokemon - that will be the new arc 'Ultra Adventures' or something.
What storyline? The one that is almost exactly the same as SM aside from a few trials, Rainbow Rocket (which probably won't appear), and Necrozma (going to be handled later on in the year)? Most of SM's storyline has already been covered.
There really isn't much of a unique storyline to USUM.
>No other generation has had a single arc in the animeThis series didn't have a single storyline either. You had Melemele for the first 30 episodes, Akala for another 7, an intermediary period of 7 episodes, Aether for 16 episodes, and now this new story arc.
If you just count the number of official posters for the anime as story arcs, then we had at least 3 so far (first poster = first 43 episodes, second poster (Aether) = 44-60, third poster (Ultra Guardians) = 61-current). Ultra Guardians arc will incorporate at least the third island's content, and it can be very short like Aether was.
>It would be uncharacteristically short to have it finish this year and it doesn't match any of the pacing we've seen so far. S/M anime started in October 2016 and in 1 year and 6 months we've seen approximately half of the region and haven't even explored the Ultra Beasts yet. I don't know where you're getting this idea that it has breezed through the islands because it clearly isn't the case.All of Melemele's story was resolved in 10 episodes. Akala had just 7 episodes of focus overall, and they skipped most of the island anyway. Aether was resolved in 16 episodes. Most of what we had in this series was slice-of-life episodes.
It stands to reason that Ula'Ula and Poni can be breezed through quickly as well.
If this series is planned correctly, it can resolve the remainder of what it needs to resolve within the next 9 months.
