>>46727954I don't think she is, but they really don't stick the landing with her. She never actually seems to grow towards her stated goal at all.
>She and her rival wants her to become a strong and skilled dragon trainer>Their final battle ends up with Iris's newly acquired Dragonite(which she has not trained) not following a single order she gives and beating her rival through sheer brute strength, so she has grown neither skilled nor strong, she was just gifted a free win>the anime doesn't seem to know if it wants to portray the rival as just being a sore loser, or correct when she calls Iris out on the fact that her Dragonite won that battle, not Iris.That being said, I found both Iris and her rival to be enjoyable characters most of the time.
