>>53375971It may cause the franchise to lose popularity, but honestly, quality is not correlated to that all the time and it's WAY PAST TIME this franchise started fresh. They are going the Yu-Gi-Oh/Digimon/Beyblade route about 20 years too late here, IMO.
I'm just glad Ash is **finally** fucking off along with the Rockets. Holy shit, WHY wasn't he done by Johto and at the latest, the Battle Frontier? Some say after DP at the latest, even that was too long for him IMO by then.
It took until Alola for them to let him win a League, which was a weak as hell league, and the English dub for Journeys is absolutely the worst ever in the PokeAni's History so it 100% ruined that win entirely.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonanime/comments/yucqh2/the_dub_has_become_absolutely_horrendous_it/Ash looks worse than he did in 1998 in 2023, even in Japanese the art style is inferior even if the animation is superior.
Ash sounds worse than he did originally in the English dub, and his dialogue is worse too: same with Team Rocket + every previous companion as well.
If you're not Japanese, you should be HAPPY that he's gone- same with TR, fuck them.
I used to love them, originally they were all likable enough- now it's a pleasure to see them gone, all flanderized over time.
