>>58817635>It did worked for 23 years. It worked until DP. Until which the fractures started to show, then BW nearly broke the entire thing completely, XY gave us the illusion everything was going back into place except the whole thing completely broke.
And guess why all of this happened? Because of the Gym/League Quest part of things being part, and the core, of Ash's journey.
.The same thing you say is the biggest pro about Ash is also his biggest con. It's why they finally made him fuck off. He was not sustainable anymore. And like I said, it ended up exploding on their faces.
The hypothetical Ash you're talking about who carries no baggage does not exist anywhere in the universe.
>JN series could have been fun like Ranma 1/2 if Ash had a group of quirky friends like Team MZ and supporting cast like rivals from Z-A RoyalThat's just another example of the hypothetical forever series. But it simply would never work with Ash because of his 20 years of baggage.
>All long running anime remains long running ether because of popularity of their main characters (Dragonball) Goku story ended. Twice, if you want to include GT. And when they brought him back 20 years after the fact it's been nothing but inter.quel hell.
>or recycling a formula (Precure).And that's a brand new thing each season.
Terrible examples to compare Pokeani with.
