>>58465494Anon, no. Please don't make authoritative statements about subjects you do not really care about. You can 100% have an amazing story w/o character development, morals challenged, or esp. villains, so they aren't fundamental to good writing. Like, the majority of poetry operates free of these, or most of Borges or Dunsany or Clark Ashton Smith or Woolf's Blue&Green or Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, travel literature like The Innocents Abroad, many literary fairy tales too....so yeah. I love love love Pokemon most when it's just, delighting in the quotidian/everyday, and I think they recognize that sense of wonder and adventure their setting creates bc of the several disparate short story animation collections they've made, or Concierge, or even ZA with all the inconsequential side quests. So yeah, morals are w/e and I think there is space for this kind of presentation in the series too.
