>>53843370>I want Ash to show some development as a character. I want him to one day look back on these past “days of Pokémon” with nostalgia.This is literally what he did across the entirety of MPM and all of you hated it. It was a victory lap where he went back over familiar situations and dealt with them differently because he was no longer the same naive reckless idiot he was at the very start. If he'd have done the exact same type of shit but been drawn differently and stated to be 25 you'd have loved it. It's so fucking stupid. And then of course there's the shipping, which was NEVER going to be overt like goddamn digimon or whatever, because pokemon wouldn't dear thrust a dagger into the heart of one shipping fanbase or another after teasing them from season to season (no matter how much some of them deserve it)
And keep in mind you're quoting Shudo here so being surprised things didn't turn out how he envisioned is just a whole different level of silly. I don't know what you people were expecting after all these years, but it seems obvious at some point you and this show got very different ideas about what it was; a simple advertising vehicle about a kid having endless summertime adventures in a magic monster world. Full stop. You wanted the show to turn on that premise at the very end and it didn't do it. It didn't "grow up with you" and do the obligatory graduation into adulthood thing because that goes against the childhood idealism it represented from the start. That doesn't mean Ash can't change, but getting old isn't the change you should have been expecting.
>>53843342I'm not defending shit I'm telling you what you don't seem to wanna hear. The show stayed the course in spite of the typical bullshit you were probably expecting. And of course it did, it's fucking Pokemon.
