Forum - View topicNEWS: Pokémon XY TV Anime to Debut on October 17 with Satoshi/Ash
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ConanSan
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Colour me shocked.
And sad that I will never get my hypothetical David Production JoJo'esc Pokemon Adventures adaptation.
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ShatteredWorld
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Ehh. That design is pure booty meat imo, but personally I've enjoyed Best Wishes, especially Episode N
Hopefully this will be at least that good or a tad better |
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penguintruth
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I kind of like Satoshi/Ash. He's like that slow kid you root for, hoping he gets the round peg in the round hole, even though you know he probably won't.
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TopGunman
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I'd like either a new protagonist or a new series entirely. Again, Ash still being 10 makes no bloody sense, even if you take out the filler episodes, there's no way everything that happened could still take place within a year.
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ostiniatoze
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Simpsons/etc doesn't age it's characters because it's not story based, for all the difference it would make each episode could be based in an alternate reality on the same day.
I don't watch Conan, but didn't someone say less than a year passed canonically, so that sorts that. Also if this series follows the trend of Ash getting dumber, Ash should be a drooling vegetable in a wheelchair being pushed around by what is surely an undercover SNA. |
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TitanXL
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Satoshi doesn't get dumber any season, just the dub writing.
I'm just amazed people are hung up over age. It's like no one has ever seen a show that lasted hundreds of episodes before. |
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mewpudding101
Industry Insider
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I'm just giving an example. Franchises like Precure have done the same by introducing a new team and world every single season. I'm not saying they should get rid of the world, and I'm not saying that this show is meant for us anymore. But I think the biggest peeve I have is that I think they should make a new hero for little kids to relate to. I think that Satoshi was a nostalgia icon (and a big part of the childhood) of 90's-early 2000's kids, but I think kids deserve a new hero that is THEIRS. |
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Gasero
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Do people watch Pokemon for Ash? It seems like the writers could have changed the main character multiple times now. Even in the Pokemon games the player character looks different.
Ash has been a tired character for a while. They regressed his experience as a trainer just to make him seem like a newbie when Black & White began. They could have just had a new character and let Ash move on. Also it seems as though Ash may have caught on to the skinny jeans fad. Maybe the female protagonist will be wearing Ugg boots. |
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Cutiebunny
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As frustrating as it is to see Ash make the same mistakes over and over again (and yet wonder why Pikachu is able to defeat EVERYTHING), I appreciate that his end arc battles have been getting better as each generation passes. If Ash was still slumming around in the Top 32s or whatever during the championship rounds, I'd wonder what was wrong with this show. But the arc with Haruka ended with him making it into the Final Four, so he has *progressively* gotten better. And there have been some dynamite battles - The Charizard vs. Articuno one is one of my favorites, but I'm rather biased towards Ash's Charizard.
As for the 10 year old thing, I don't mind. The series isn't aimed towards me, and I follow it and watch the occasional episode more out of nostalgia (and cute/powerful Pokes) than anything else. Hopefully his female cohort won't be annoying. I couldn't stand Iris and was happy when she left. |
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Myaow
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More than that, they're even shown celebrating Christmas and various other holidays multiple times, and the seasons change too-- clearly years are passing but the characters are frozen in time! It's fun to joke about "given how much time has passed, shouldn't Conan have naturally grown back into Shinichi by now", but plainly it's not supposed to be an issue and we're just meant to accept it. That's just how things work in anime land. |
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razisgosu
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Let me just take One Piece, Bleach, Reborn, and Naruto as examples. All their characters have aged. If it's a story based show, like Pokemon, the characters should age, it makes sense. Not to mention the fact Ash is just a terrible protagonist to begin with, it makes for a bad show. |
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Adv193
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I already know that Ash is still being kept in the anime for marketing purposes. Still it is the reason why I am not as attracted to the anime as I used to be. Still reading Pokemon Adventures is a good alternative because at least they try to follow the storyline of the games much more closely. I would recommend Pokemon Adventures for anyone who loves the franchise but dislikes the anime especially since Viz is kind of enough to already bringing out the Ruby and Sapphire chapter.
To close this up, it is obvious that since the anime attracts so much attention and makes so much money is why there will never be an anime adaption for Pokemon Adventures though I still wish they should since it would have a better storyline than what the anime is doing with reusing the same main characters, and often reusing old story plots in different episodes. |
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TsukasaElkKite
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Hopefully Team Rocket will be competent.
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Tenbyakugon
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Surprised that this came up on ANN first and not BulbaNews or Serebii
This is Satoshi's best outfit since Hoenn, which seems to pay homage to Calem's design. I have no complaints, but I'd like to see companions more interesting than what we saw in Iris and Cilan. |
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kayori1928
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Bring Back Misty and Brock and then I might actually watch it.
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