>>38054333>Go tell that to Naruto, Dragon Ball or Bleach.Immediately outing yourself as a retard, all of those series did filler precisely for the reasons the other anons said, because they were catching up to the manga too quickly. Dragon Ball especially, DBZ's end was only just a few months after the manga ended. Given anime production times, they were cutting it close hard there.
>Guy leaves home>Catches a bunch of pokémonThat's the very set-up of the games they adapt, retard.
>Girls are uselessBlue, Yellow, Crystal, Sapphire, Courtney were all never useless, and that's just within the early arcs. You're retarded.
>Pokedex makes everyone special so a team of bad guys runs into youI'll concede on this one point, the pokedex holder shit is a little dumb. But to be fair, we're talking trainers who basically get hand picked for a device that costs got only knows how much to produce, Pokedexes don't just grow on fucking trees in PokeSpe.
>The main villain has an edgy plan with not-so-good motivationsLance's motivations were perfectly understandable looking at it from his perspective. In a lot of ways he was like a proto-N, albeit with a much more extreme solution. Pryce as well has a good personal motivation, he may have went to horrible extremes over it, but that's precisely what made him more human as a character. Archie and Maxie straight up had the same motivations as their game counterparts, only the outcome was changed at the end due to both of them being hijacked by Groudon and Kyogre's bullshit. Guile Hideout was an extension of this. And Giovanni in FRLG just wanted to see his kid again, that's human as fuck.
>If the mangaka needs to promote another arc, he turns the current MC into a stoneIt's called leading into the next chapter, linking two stories together, and it's a good thing. At least the mangaka follows up on that shit, even if it takes an eternity like with BW2. That's a hell of a lot more than you can say for the anime.
