>>47024899If we're talking in English I think it developed from them bickering because they were annoyed to because they secretly like each other like in most American media at the time. If we're talking in Japanese, it never happened because Shudo intended on the anime to be silly children hijinks with a splash of action that ultimately culminated with the protagonists growing out of pokemon battling and away from each other. Maybe back then there was even the vaguest hope that Misty and Ash could have hypothetically had gotten together, Then pokemon Made mad bank and any and all hope of Misty liking Ash in canon got thrown out of the window because they wanted better looking girls.
>>47026921She's talking about Tracy. Seethe.
