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How would you deconstruct the "not allowed to grow up" formula?

Anonymous Thu 24 Jan 2019 22:13:55 No.37439371 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>37440124 >>37440918 >>37440953 >>37441008 >>37442367

One of the most infamous traits of the Pokemon anime has to be the whole "not allowed to grow up" formula, whether it is the human characters not aging or Pokemon refusing to evolve.

How would you deconstruct it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Jan 2019 22:21:32 No.37439395 Report

Quoted By: >>37439810

This is simple. It's mostly an issue of character development. It's a core aspect of a story structure. If the character can't progress, you didn't do a story correctly.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jan 2019 23:56:53 No.37439810 Report

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>>37439395
That makes sense :)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 00:35:39 No.37440008 Report

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i would have ash grow up and have his own son that takes over, while ash is like a gym leader or something. i dont know, im not an expert on the anime but i feel like it could be pretty cool.

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Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 00:56:23 No.37440116 Report

Quoted By: >>37440226 >>37440953

Animated characters don't age, when will you people get this into your skulls? This lot have been in high school for 50 years

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Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 00:57:49 No.37440124 Report

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>>37439371
It could literally be as simple as ash winning and wanting to start over to feel the challenge again

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Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 01:14:05 No.37440226 Report

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>>37440116
but they do grow up

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 01:42:55 No.37440359 Report

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Have one, and only one character realize they're stuck in an ageless world and set out to fix it. Doesn't matter if they succeed or not, only that they fucking acknowledge it.

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Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 03:49:02 No.37440918 Report

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>>37439371
The anime is already trash and has been going on way too long to change up something like that so drastically. The only thing you can do to improve the anime is general improvements to the story, characters, and writing, and start being more consistent. If you want an entirely different structure or type of show then you’d need a separate canon/spin off that is redoing ash from the ground up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 03:59:42 No.37440953 Report

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>>37439371
Make it slice of life and completely episodic instead of trying to keep a continuity.

>>37440116
>Animated characters don't age
Except they do. The only time they don't is when it's completely episodic.

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Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 04:05:27 No.37440987 Report

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Lemme try. Always thought the introduction of hoopa and portals would help to the fact that Ash seems to forget some adventures and pokemon knowledge he already has. I mean, at least that could relate that we all have different games that work like dimentions ingame, so that way the different anime seasons tell the story of a different Ash, something like the ho-oh movie did

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 04:07:13 No.37440996 Report

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>>37440226
Isnt Ash supposed to be the punchline in that image?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 04:10:39 No.37441008 Report

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>>37439371
Simple. Make it so you don't have a consistent character, so there's no logical need to age anyone up. It'd be shitty, but it's an easy way to avoid the "why doesn't anyone age" question.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 10:08:57 No.37442342 Report

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realistically ash should be the most powerful being on the planet, ruler of all, if every new season wasn't a weird half reboot while the past adventures still kinda happened (as the various cross over episodes with past companions confirm)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Jan 2019 10:22:38 No.37442367 Report

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>>37439371
Honestly, I feel like this has held pokemon back. Not allowing characters to grow is forcing normies out. If you are adult and still like pokemon you are somehow stuck, either an autist or a manchild. If at least some characters grew and pokemon gave some focus on it, more people who aren't retarded would keep up with the franchise without shame.

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