Pokémon is soulless now

Fuck off Ashfag

i havent been keeping up with the pokemon anime, why was ash retired?

now

it has been for over a decade

Kill yourself, coomer. You only care about that green cat

It's getting better all the time

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Because nobody except for a few severely mentally ill retards liked him anymore

he won the world tournament so yeah, not much else for him to do after that

They never made the anime good after Johto and they blamed it on Ash

Pokémon is a yuri series now.

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Out of curiosity how in-universe do they explain how he remains the same age yet has been doing it for so long?

OP5 for Horizons is cool as fuck though

Ash died in the first movie and was brought back to life/immortalized via pokemon tears.

It's doing fine.

As for the dub, is it still using stock BGM and barely using japanese BGM? It's fucking 2025, no one does that shit anyway. And dub openings still can't top 4kids opening.

I was asking about Conan.

now

did you finally turn 13 this year or what?

we want the palworld audience

I stopped watching the new series after the brown kid caught a wattrel. The show wasn't going anywhere and the villains were bland attempts to re-create Team Rocket.

I saw she was pushed but probably for coomers.

They had him win the world tournament and basically decided it was time to retire him with a send off of
1) Beating the current world champion
2) Pikachu having a flashback to his old mons
3) Going off to a random adventure

I still like the original opening, Spurt!, all of gen VI's opening's (namely XYZ).

As for the dub, is it still using stock BGM and barely using japanese BGM?

Of course.

The whole series canonically takes place in like 1 year

Because they fucked up 10 years ago and denied him his french pussy, they went full nostalgia and gave him his well earned champion title.

Newest season is not bad but it still lack.

Pokemon in general is soulless since it stopped putting Japan first and went full Globohomo.

Pokehebes are still nice at least.

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Ratings were down for a long ass time, staff was done with him and his seiyuu was real pain to deal with.
The only reason why he was kept around in the first place was, because there was 1 autistic higher up that wanted him to stay around forever while never making any meaningful progression.
Only reason why Ash won the alola league was, because of the backlash the kalos league created, but the damage was already done.

I know very little about it but I am struggling to fit decades of content into 1 year. I guess it just gets handwaved because it spoils the fun to get autismal about it?

They tried to kill Ash for a long while now, they made him stupid, they made him forget everything about pokemons for some reason, they made him bad at battles, etc. They reset him every time a new season came out until they just decided to make him win. It's hard to have new adventures and discover new stuff if you are literally the best and a regional champion.

Liko thigh service was top tier, I fucking love her.

It's hard to have new adventures and discover new stuff if you are literally the best and a regional champion.

The angle of the pokemon world being vast was always there, anon

Yeah the timeline is intentionally inconsistent, it's obviously impossible to fit everything into the span of one year, but canonically only a year has passed as an excuse to keep Conan from aging
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The angle of the pokemon world being vast was always there

that's what they did for the gen 8 series and it sucked

Simpsons-style, they just rapidly get technology upgrades.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for linking that.
Thank you as well.

so the weird sexy cat chick is now the mascot of the series? not really as iconic as pika..

my asspull without resorting to google was that whatever aged him down to begin with is preventing him from aging back at all, and that he was supposed to figure that out as a final mystery or something. yen printer goes brrrrrrt so he never solved it.

no, there's still a main character pikachu nicknamed cap in the new series

It's iconic for coomers

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A different Pikachu is still around. Also Horizons will end once Gen10 is released, they don't want to make an Ash 2.0 that keeps getting retarded each season, they already aged the characters in the latest season anyway

It's not a stick thigh like they'd normally do, there is some meat in there, nice.

No she's just the MCs ace.
Kinda like how ash always had a main power house in his team besides pikachu like charizard, sceptile, infernape and greninja.
There is another pikachu that acts like the mascot who belongs to their presumed to be dead mentor.

that's what they did for the gen 8 series and it sucked

actually that's the idea behind the Ash resets but they never did it properly

Will be funny atleast to see what excuse they'll come up with each new series for why there is a pikachu on the main cast.

I stopped watching it at episode 3, and mostly because I had already downloaded that episode, fucking boring

now

I mean pikachu's a popular pokemon in universe and catachable in basically every region so it's not like they really need an excuse for why any character has one

It's far more boring than any prior series.

I can only imagine it'll continue. It'll probably be a "mentor" with them that has a Charizard and Pikachu for the foreseeable future.