>>57808095Why would any of that be illegal? If anything I think he's treated very unfairly in Kanto gym episodes. He gets held to the fact he's being given the badges for free by Misty and Brock but in the latters case Ash refused at first but Brock insisted. He's the one who fuckin' pressured him to take the god damn badge but then badgers him about it later. Same with Misty but at least with Misty she was already losing the battle she was having to begin with. They never put their foot down and helped Ash become that way.
>but he did deserve to lose due to his overall track record of "training." He lucked into too many badges while not putting in nearly enough effort to actually deserve to winI still agree with this, but I do think his friends and even the gym leaders were at fault here because they enabled these things. Kanto was full of bullshit like that.
>>57808099 >The OS isn't that upbeat. It was full of deadbeats and shitty people.I think that makes it more interesting. There's a lot of hypocrisy though which can be frustrating but Kanto worked very well as an episodic series with new plots per episode. The one about the Tentacruel is very fun. Sabrina was a very fun character despite the pity badge ending.
Misty deserves flack but Brock isn't innocent either and I argue he enabled Ash more than she did.
>>57808241I don't remember that in the sub. Was it a dub quote? It's important to note that Pokemon was altered a lot in English just like other 4kids properties were.
>>57808322Richie was unironically a jobber who deserved to lose as bad as Ash did. Ash, despite having an exhausted team, still had a significant edge with his mons over Richie despite him supposedly not losing any mons throughout his prior rounds. Charizard treated Sparky like a fucking chump. He must have gotten those other badges Gary collected for his badge quest.
