>>57978156>And then they double downed on him after the time-skip. And now he's by far the most hated character in the series.I felt alright about Roy pre timeskip, at least he was the warm happy-go-lucky genki boy to make the contrast with Liko's quiet and melancholic nature. Now they're pushing him as the cool serious shonen MC and it just doesn't click.
The additions around him are awful too, Ult's entire purpose seems to make Roy look serious and mature while being an extremely unlikeable, bitter flanderization of pre timeskip Roy himself. At least Roy was a positive boy who always was ready to help, Ult is basically a redditor that yells at people.
Lucario has no flashback, no personality, no interactions, it's just a big shiny gun. It's like an anime version of a genned pokémon (I mean it's even shiny). Using it to beat Nemona was truly jumping the shark, at least using his loyal Crocalor would have been more palatable. This is the most blatant suit order, of course they have to promote Megas again.
>I'm truly fucking sick and tired of OCI think the message is "if you want to follow the game's story and characters, play the games". An adaptation from SV's story would be kino, but they don't want to repeat stories across the franchise and I can see where they're coming from.
And as
>>57978628 points out, most anime characters are OCs; they just have a skin you're familiar with. Their game counterparts aren't well fleshed out enough in the first place, so the anime has to expand and improvise. This is hardly different to just putting an OC.
OCs can be done the right way, just look at Paldean Winds. The problem is the suits. Always has been.
