>>42727890SM was pretty much be in city and fix a random problem problem anyway, so it basically gutted half of the premise.
>Not to mention that it had a charismatic castYeah, no. And winning a league that they basically had to gut in order to even have the "cast" get to play make believe was retarded, not to mention he won in the Orange Islands. Pocket Monsters is pretty much doing ore of the generic forests now, and the gym thing was sorely missing when the kahuna were a terrible replacement and regular trials weren't any better than problems of the day in the forests.