>>58212077>are most people here not actually watching Horizons?I'm not and have no intention of watching it either.
>For those who don't, is it mainly because Ash is gone, or it's for other reasons too OTHER than Ash?Nah it has nothing to do with Ash's departure. If anything that would make me more likely to wach it, not less.
For me it's moreso that I don't like the direction they've been going since at least the end of XY and beginning of SM era and the modern stuff has just continued in the same wrong direction. I'd go back further and say I haven't liked the direction since BW, excepting XY, but it's not quite as much.
My attitude towards the BW era is that some of it was bad idea, bad execution and some of it was good idea, bad execution. While everything post-XY has been bad idea, bad execution.
I couldn't give you an exact formula for what would make the perfect anime or exactly what it would take for me to start caring again, but broadly speaking what they did was interfere too much with the golden goose. The people they used to have working on the anime were good and knew what they were doing. It always suffered from micromanagement but BW was the peak and it showed. With XY they lessened that a bit and just let them cook, however minor the leeway was, and it had excellent results.
Less micromanaging, and more just letting competent people cook. But I am aware that that's never going to happen. They would have to be truly desparate for that to happen and that isn't happening any time soon with how well the past few generations of utterly shit, buggy slop games they've shat out have been selling.
They could put out a Pokémon anime that was literally a blank screen with no sound for 30 minutes an episode and people would still watch it and sing its praises.
