Is this guy the worst protagonist ever? How many years has been training? How many tournaments has he lost? How many hot babes has he neglected?
>>135607716
desu yeah he does suck, the whole point of the series is to catch pokemon and he's really, really bad at it.
Has Ash even caught ONE Legendary?
Do kids in Japan still watch pokemon?
>>135607716
How old is this cunt now?Is he still a virgin?
>>135608717
I think they like Youkai Watch now
>>135607716
Goddamn, I forgot how baggy his pants were.
>>135607716
Dude is immortal, no need to hurry.
>>135608717
It usually ranks in the top 10 most watched anime of the week.
Dude's been 12 for the past 16 years.
>>135608746
After getting all the Kanto badges he had a birthday party at Pallet Town when he went back home. As far as I know that's the only time his birthday is acknowledged. If we assume it takes a year to travel a region that would make him around 16.
The anime is probably hoping people don't remember the birthday and still says he's 10 though.
>>135610002
*10
Despite them saying in the show that a year-more has passed, he is still 10
>>135610597
>After getting all the Kanto badges he had a birthday party at Pallet Town when he went back home.
This is wrong and will continue to be wrong no matter how many times wrongfags post it in threads like this.
>>135610714
>Despite them saying in the show that a year-more has passed,
This is also wrong.
>>135610743
It might be dub-only, but I explicitly remembering once the gang circled back around Kanto in the very first season that one of them said it had been about a year since they started.
>>135610796
>It might be dub-only,
Yep, exactly.
>>135607716
He's just kind of there as Pikachu's keeper.
I'm sure there are several MCs that are much more actively offensive.
>>135607716
He is autistic.
>>135607716
Failure is not what makes a character a bad protagonist.
>>135610991
*enthusiastic
>>135608717
Pokemon gets better ratings in Japan than most shows. Its in the Top 10 almost every week but a few.
>>135611065
It's not just failure, it's failure without improvement.
He's been at this shit for ages and isn't much better now than he was at the end of the Indigo League.
>>135610002
Had more bitches than anyone on this board.
I know the tsunami fucked up everything but that hard reset in BW really pissed me off.
Also the Smugleaf not bein more of a dark horse an everyone being kept as mascots instead of evolving was bullshit too.
I hope that BW/BW2 editor has ants in his pants.
>>135607716
>pokemon almost kills everyone he supposely loves
I MUSS BBECOM THE VERRY BEST
>Almost freezes to death in a cave because he was on another wild quest to go to the next city on foot
I'Ll Neeveer give Up my dream Of being the next Pokemon master
>Claims he is gonna catch them all
I can"t CooTch thris pokenon becaUse weeve are not fRiends yet.
100% confirmed for Aspergers
>>135611183
He also probably jerks of to pokemon porn
>>135611183
>>135611217
This came out all wrong...I'm drunk and depressed.
I wish Sinnoh Ash didn't have to be nerfed.
>>135611098
He's a way better trainer than he was in the Indigo League. His strategies and training methods blow old Ash straight out of the water.
It's just that for some reason, the skill level of his tournament rivals go up each series. Because in the Indigo League, there was a dumbass who brought a fucking Arcanine to a water field. And then there was Richie who made it to the top 16 armed with a fucking Charmander, Butterfree and Pikachu. That's good enough to reach Top 16 in the Indigo League apparently. And there was really nothing special about Richie other than that he was overall more competent than Ash was back then. We never saw anything spectacular about him.
And then you reach Sinnoh, and the second match Ash has is a guy who completely analyzed all of Ash's battle styles and brought a team specifically in order to counter him. There was literally no one this competent in the Indigo League, or the Johto or Hoenn Leagues for that matter. There was NO ONE who was actually smart enough to bother analyzing their opponents and developing strategies specifically in order to counter them. There wasn't. Conway, the trainer in question, was Top 16 same as Richie was.
And then Ash went up against a guy who brought a bunch of fucking legendaries to the tournament and was the only one who managed to knock out the guy's Darkrai AND managed to take out his Latios as well. No one else could even touch Darkrai, not even the runner-up of the tournament.
So there's a huge sense of progression with the Ash back then and the Ash now, in terms of strategy and skill and everything, but for some reason, everyone else is moving up at roughly the same place. If Ash could go back in time and participate in the Indigo Tournament, there is no doubt in my mind that he would be able to win the whole thing with ease.
So either Indigo trainers are all just shit in general, or the world is actually going out of its way to try to keep Ash from winning a tournament.
>>135611183
>I can"t CooTch thris pokenon becaUse weeve are not fRiends yet.
Would you want to go on a cross-continent roadtrip with someone you didn't like?
>>135611329
Like, to put things in perspective. After beating Ash, Richie moved onto the Top 8 of the Indigo League.
In Sinnoh, Ash's Top 8 opponent was Paul, who was pretty clearly many times superior to Richie in terms of battle skill in every way. So there's just this very clear difference in terms of overall skill level compared to now and then.
If Indigo Ash tried to participate in the Sinnoh league, he wouldn't have gotten past the preliminaries.
>>135611329
Are you that retarded fag who always comes in defense of this mediocre piece of shit trainer in /vp/?
Seriously he's a pathetic trainer, and without the magic of his asshpulls he wouldn't be nothing.
>>135611363
But he wants to catch them all
>>135607716
This fucker is a two time champion and ranks top 16 in any league tournament he's in all at the age of "10"
This isn't even counting the numerous non battle based awards to his name or the many times he saved the goddamn world.
In comparison Gary was so salty from losing to ash, He gave up on being a trainer entirely.
Another way to see how much Ash has improved since Indigo: No other Pokemon has blatantly disobeyed Ash the way Charizard did. So he clearly commands more respect now than he used to.
>>135611407
No, he just wants to be a Pokémon Master.
>>135611363
Implying you can't just send the pokemon you hate back to the lab.
It's what he did with Muk, for example.
/a/ - Pokémon
>>135611398
I haven't been to /vp/ in at least a year.
>>135611398
You know, by your logic, every single Olympic athlete who fails to win a gold medal is a piece of shit.
>>135611110
Iris looks good whenever drawn by someone else. Good potential but has some retarded fucking hair.
>>135611453
XY has waifus and shipping so I'm surprised /a/ doesn't talk more about it since it basically is all most users want from a show.
>>135611517
Iris went on a date with Ash once. Never gets brought up.
>>135607716
Yes. Just behind is Son Goku.
>>135611545
BW is better left forgotten.
>>135611110
And he will soon waste his chance with another bitch.
>>135611329
>And then Ash went up against a guy who brought a bunch of fucking legendaries to the tournament and was the only one who managed to knock out the guy's Darkrai AND managed to take out his Latios as well. No one else could even touch Darkrai, not even the runner-up of the tournament.
And then what happened in the following league? If he didn't have to fight somebody with at least three legendaries, then it sounds to me like he's slipping.
>>135611441
BUT DOES HE HAVE THE SKILLS TO BE NUMBER WON
>>135611509
>Brown short girl formula in anime fool proof.
Just shows how shitty bw/bw2 was.
>>135611495
Nelly feels that way https://youtu.be/SBBF2A9xLtY?t=1m3s
>>135608717
I honestly don't know why people watch this.
It's plain bad, not fun, it truly sucks.
MC is bland and stupid as fuck, the episodes are always been the same shit for like 10 years.
The team Rocket keep trying to catch Pikachu after all these years just to get hit by a Thunder attack. Embarrasing!
>>135611657
He got hard resetted by that faggot director and pikachu got de leveled, ash got stupider due to the trauma of tobias and the tsunami through out all hope for a good Bw/bw2 seasons.
>>135611646
>>135611788
Well, it's for kids.
>>135611517
>>135611637
why did the anime staff decide to replace touko with an original character?
>>135611840
Same reason we got Finn.
>>135611840
Because she's not an original character. She's a Gym Leader. Well, in the GAMES she's a Gym Leader. In the show, she's just a Gym Leader candidate.In B2/W2, she's the Champion.
B/W was full of callbacks to Kanto. Including bringing back Ash's incompetence.
>>135611509
I prefer her hair as it is instead of cutting it like they did with Serena.
Wait, what are you guys talking about a tsunami? Pikachu really got DEleveled? How is that possible?
>brown loli
How do you fuck that up?
>>135611887
I wish that tsunami took out the whole team for that season.
>new region
>pikachu is reseted and struggles against some newbie trainer
>the newbie simply don't buy that Ash is actually a very experienced trainer
>he asks why Pikachu is so weak
>Ash can't answer and decides to talk about it with Prof. Oak
>Prof. Oak spends days trying to figure out what's happening with Pikachu
>while trying to understand Pikachu's situation he finally realizes it's not Pikachu, but the whole world is being "reseted", they keep reliving the same year over and over, but for some reason nobody noticed anything (like not aging, etc)
>obviously some pokemon did it
>stuff happens
>they solve the problem and the "timeloop" finally stops
>Ash is now able to get older and his pokemon can keep their levels
>he becomes the champion and the torch is passed to someone else
>>135611958
Tsunami completely fucked up all of their plans. They had to cut out an entire arc they had planned, completed episodes never aired, it was a fucking mess.
Pikachu lost to a fucking water type. Twice.
>>135611966
incompetent staff, natonal emergency.
>>135611517
I feel bad for Kasumi, she shown more interest in Satoshi before anyone
>>135611887
>Well, in the GAMES she's a Gym Leader
She was a Gym Leader in one version and just a candidate in the other.
>>135612041
Yeah, but she was a bitch. Good riddance. May, Dawn and Serena are all superior.
>>135612041
>I feel bad for Kasumi
>>135611110
Considering none of them gets comsumated, you can do better just by going outside and touching every stranger you meet. Then again just talking to strangers would be an impressive feat for you.
>>135607716
Does anyone but the old die hard neckbeards even watch the show anymore?
At this point why not just make him grow up and and pretend decade of him never grow up never exist
>>135611966
>How do you fuck that up?
You already gave the answer: brown loli
>>135612084
Well done.
>>135612041
Technically by retcon Serena came before her.
Not that it matters because Ash is an immortal ten year old virgin who could care less about girls unless they're Pokemon.
>>135612106
>>135611517
>It only has a teaspoon of feces in it so it's okay to drink it.
>>135612106
Well, there are doujins that fix that.
>>135612093
Because constantly changing viewership and also they will never find a voice actress as passionate as Rica Sakamoto.
>catch a strong pokemon
>let it go or give it away
I bet that Primeape hates Ash now
>>135612096
>brown loli
>anything other than delicious
Timeskip edgelord "Pokemon are tools" Ash Ketchum when?
Also when will celebi send him back in time so he can become his own father?
>>135607716
I still can't believe he stopped wearing that hat he threw such a fit about.
>>135612131
>It only has a teaspoon of feces
You're basically admitting it's more safe than pretty much everything else airing nowaday.
>>135612163
It wanted to be a boxer. Who's Ash to deny it its dream?
>>135612187
What a massive faggot.
>>135611819
This.
It's just a kids show. Of course it's going to be shallow and repetitive.
He's a top 5 trainer, excluding Elite 4, in every single region. And that's using shit pokemon, some not even evolved.
>>135612128
Osananajimi NTR
>>135612187
Didn't the hat evolve?
>Ash had a disobedient Charizard
>still manages to get top 16 in Indigo League
Nice "competition"
Pokespe Anime when?
>>135612187
>>135612219
He gave it to Misty as a farewell gift.
>>135612187
People change, hats change. Big deal.
>>135612154
doesnt mean they have to change VA
I mean Goku does it
>>135612203
That's the wrong way to see it, the right one being it's shallow and repetitive because it's main reason to exist is to sell toys.
>>135612170
yea but the bw staff managed to fuck that fool proof formula up. How do you explain that fujo scientist?
>>135612187
He matured.
Remember that toy you used to throw fits about when you were a kid? Where is it now? You don't know, do you?
Besides, his mom made him a better hat. And are you seriously gonna choose not to wear a hat that your mom hand-made for you? Because if you do, you're a horrible child.
>>135612235
I bet she threw it away the day after.
>>135612235
He didn't, don't mislead people.
Why is the animation in XY so consistently non-mediocre and occasionally excellent? Where are they getting that budget from? Previous seasons look like slideshows in comparison.
When will the Anime bring OS Ash back and return the series which meant to tell a story for both kids and adults, not for babies!
>>135612235
[Spoiler]>she wanted his virginity[/spoiler]
>he gave her a hat
>>135612197
It could be that you're subconsciously looking for excrement to consume and then complain about it, that's why everything you find is sewage. How about you deliberately look for stuff that's not garbage to you?
>>135612303
You mean you liked watching Ash not train his Pokemon and be a blithering retard?
>>135612250
The thing they fucked up is not having a de-aged Rosa or Hilda in the anime instead of Iris. They also fucked up by thinking Iris could replace someone like Dawn.
How much offscreen fucking did Brock do while stalking Ash across continents so he could bump into him "by chance"?
>>135612323
Better than him being a supposedly "experienced" trainer and yet still getting his ass kicked at every gym.
>>135612320
>It could be that you're subconsciously looking for excrement to consume and then complain about it
You just described anyone watching anime.
>How about you deliberately look for stuff that's not garbage to you?
>>>/MAL/
>>135612378
None, this is a christian anime.
>>135612365
>They also fucked up by thinking Iris could replace someone like Dawn
Too much panties.
Ash will win once Yokai Watch destroys Pokemon's marketshare enough to make an anime no longer profitable
>>135612378
The word is breeding anon.
>>135612422
Will pokemon get a gritty reboot? An eroge vn?
>>135612383
>generalizations
I think I now understand why you're still watching Pokemon.
>>135612422
>Yokai Watch
overrated meme
>>135612466
InshallahI'd unironically love to see an Eva/Madoka style edgelord deconstruction of the monster cockfight genre
>anons getting mad at Ash and not against the incompetent writers
If you're going to keep the same protagonist for the rest of your series at least have the decency to don't reset his fucking personality and skills at x season, fuck.
At least Digimon, which was aimed for kids too, did its anime right.
>>135612381
You actually don't know what you're talking about, do you?
>>135608746
Gotta relate to their demographic, which is composed of preteens and virgins.
>>135612503
Does Digimon Tamers count?
>>135612503
Mom: Make your pets fight or we'll disown you
the Anime is fucking retarded. it only pays attention to the type advantage at the will of the writer.
I can't count how many fucking times I saw pokemon with type advantages loose hard after landing solid hits multiple times in a row
>>135612637
>It's not exactly like my games so it's shit
If the show was exactly like the games, then we wouldn't get crazy bullshit like Hawlucha beating Trick Room by literally smashing into it over and over with X-Scissor. Or Pikachu using Iron Tail to leap across Draco Meteors like stepping stones.
>>135612637
Pikachu activating sprinklers to make thunderbolt super effective on Onix is still the most bullshit thing to ever come from any anime.
>>135612692
Crazy bullshit is whatever, but if you throw out type advantage then types are meaningless.
>>135612693
No it's not.
Because since then, we've had "AIM FOR THE HORN" and "Thunder Armor".
>>135612725
It creates drama.
It's no different from how a shonen protagonist manages to get up after taking a hit that "should have killed him". It's a convenient way to make the Pokemon seem extra determined to the point of shaking off its physical limitations.
Otherwise you can't really explain how Infernape managed to survive being A) poisoned, B) Thunder'd to the point where its health is low enough for Blaze to activate and C) use Flare Blitz without knocking itself out despite the state it was in.
>>135612744
It is when there was a rumor going around your school about how you could activate the sprinkler system in pokemon yellow.
It's a show for children, they're trying to give each generation of kids what they want. That's why Ash was a hardheaded kid in the first series but has become more passive, the generation changed and wanted something different.
>>135612805
>It's no different
Its very VERY fucking different you ignorant twat.
>Otherwise you can't really explain
its called shit teir writing you fucking twat
>>135612852
Your school was dumb then.
My school had rumors too, but none of them were as stupid as that. It was mostly just generic shit like the thing with the truck with Mew, and getting a Togepi after you beat the Elite Four a certain number of times. You know, the usual stuff.
>>135612885
>Your school was dumb then.
Who's school of children back in the 90's or even today aren't proptoionatly retarded. you can't expect logic from kids
>>135612884
Well then why the fuck are you on /a/? Anime has stupid bullshit like that all the time. If you can't handle it then there's no point in being on this board, now, is there? I just watched Fate/stay night, a show based on a visual novel made for adults 18 and older where the narrative keeps pounding it into your head that the protagonist can't fight Servants, how humans can never hope to match up to a Servant, that if you try to fight a Servant you're definitely gonna die, and the protagonist fucking beats a Servant. Anime's full of this kind of bullshit, and if just this is enough to bother you then you really probably shouldn't be watching anything other than shows about teenage girls doing mundane things.
>>135612235
>Misty's pokemon weren't the only things wet that day
>Ash gives her a hat
>Ash gives hat
>gives hat
>hat
I'm really really glad I stopped playing all pokemon games... thinking back it was the most autistic moment of my life, but what was I suppose to do I was like 7 when that shit came out.
>>135612885
>>135612922
I only remember two RBY rumors at my school: Missingno, and somebody who I realized YEARS later actually stumbled onto the Mew glitch entirely by accident but had no idea how it actually worked.
>>135612637
>I swear, there was never a mention of level or stat in all of the Pokemon franchise, everything works on the Rock-Paper-Scissors system with no failure
Retard.
>>135612922
When the DS games first came out there was that one where you could improve your catches of catching a pokemon by yelling "GOTCHA" into the mic right when the ball closed it's hinges.
That was funny shit. Hearing a bunch of freshmen running around yelling GOTCHA in secret behind the stairs because it was so embarrassing.
>>135613010
Levels and stats don't exist in the anime you faggot.
>>135612968
>>135612235
>>135612980
He's shitting you. Ash doesn't give his hat to anyone. They literally part ways in the middle of an intersection and that's it. Ash keeps his hat and Misty goes home. Pretty anticlimactic.
>>135612980
>not giving your hat to the girl you like
Wow I bet you're still a virgin.
>>135613048
The funny part is Ash apparently doesn't carry this lure around anymore. The last time he went fishing he didn't bring it out. It's literally one of the few times it would ever come in handy and he just doesn't seem to have it on him.
>>135613063
Did he ever buy her a new bike?
>>135613063
>They literally part ways in the middle of an intersection and that's it
That's how I remember it.
>>135613063
Good, can't be teaching kids autism that early, even for Japan that's low.
>>135613082
>wearing hats
no ty /lgbt/
>>135613101
No. The Viridian City Pokemon Center, which is where Misty left her wrecked bike, apparently restored the bike and kept it for her for free in case she ever came back. She got the bike back, realized she had no more reason to travel with Ash anymore, and left.
>>135613118
He should've given her his hat so when her future boyfriend is in her room about to bang her he's like "what's this hat" and she's like "it was given to me by...a very... special friend" and he feels like a cuck for all of the intercourse because she's thinking of Ash now.
>>135613035
They fucking do. The characters speak a lot about fighting experience or level, especially when Ash's Charizard was able to withstand Elektabuzz's continuous Thunder Punches during the Orange League and still considerably wear down Dragonite. Just because it's not spoonfed to you via a sign hanging above the Pokemon's head just like in your favourite anime SAO doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Otherwise, the whole concept of evolution and learning moves doesn't make sense.
Go spew bullshit somewhere else.
>>135613148
>restore
>misty's bike
literally how?
>>135613157
Evolution and learning moves never properly followed the games either. Nowadays, Pokemon just kinda evolve when they need to, sometimes without even requiring the Pokemon to get into any battles beforehand. And moves? Pokemon often learn multiple moves spontaneously upon evolving, or randomly learn new moves completely out of nowhere. They just don't give a shit.
>>135612968
>The protagonist beats a Servant
In Fate Shirou is only able to defeat Berserker with the help of Saber activating his projection.
In Unlimited Blade Works, Shirou never functionally defeats Archer, but beats him in a battle of will. His victory against Gilgamesh is due to the fact that Gilgamesh manifested in the world as an extremely powerful human, rather than servant following the events of Fate/Zero. This makes him much easier to defeat, especially considering the concept of a "human fighting servants" only accounts for human weaponry. That's why an enchanted Kuzuki could defeat Saber, and why Sakura is able to kill so many servants in Heavens/Feel.
In Heaven's Feel, Shirou is not able to defeat any servants at all, not even Assassin, the weakest. The only time he ever has a victory is with the insane power of Archer's arm over Berserker, and this is not a part of his "humanity," thus making it moot.
>>135612093
>Does anyone but the old die hard neckbeards even watch the show anymore?
It's still watched by kids and pokemon is still reasonably popular with that demographic, just not as explosively popular anymore. .
>>135613190
I dunno but that's literally what happens.
Incidentally, Pikachu ends up destroying May and Dawn's bikes too, but they apparently don't really give a shit. May only used the bike as a means to guilt-trip Ash to letting her travel with him.
Pikachu, man. It hates bikes.
>>135607716
>How many years has been training?
Less than 1 according to the anime. Ash is forever 10 years old in order to relate to the target audience.
>>135613241
millefu needs to get a bike and guilt trip ash into pounding her all night every night.
>>135607716
Why didn't they just replace the MC every series and just have them all use a Pikachu? That way they could do actual character development and stuff
>>135613267
>in order to relate to the target audience
25-33 year old men?
>>135613306
Target audience =/= actual audience.
>>135613291
Because they don't actually expect anyone to stick with the show for more than maybe two regions.
>>135613267
>has somehow traversed multiple prefectures/states on foot in less than a year
Come to think of it, why the hell do they travel everywhere on foot? What happened to trains and buses?
>>135613306
Some people want to be shot whether they're the target or not.
>>135613306
25-33 year old men who act like 10 year old boys.
>>135613267
The amount of episodes (900+) that feature "day begins" to "day ends" total to him being at least being 13-14 yrs old by now.
Maybe poke-earth has a longer year, they do have a shocking amount of continents.
>>135613207
Because life ain't a fucking video game. Life has evolved throughout the course of thousand of years and creatures developed aptitudes because they needed those to resist certain environment conditions or flee from a certain predator. The anime simply speeds up considerably the process making Pokemon able to use the experience they got up until now and use it to evolve in case of trouble. Even if the process is horribly sped up compared to the thousands of years needed in reality, it's still more consistent than a bullshit system where you need this amount of experience to reach that certain level in order to level that precise attack even though the Pokemon might not have been trained to fight the same Pokemon in the same environment as the official case.
>>135613306
Just because that's the only part of the audience you interact with on this site doesn't mean they aren't still massively outnumbered by elementary school children.
>>135613333
>Take trains and buses everywhere
>Never run into random trainers or wild pokemon
>Your team ends up weak as shit
If it hasn't already been said, Satoshi is a manlet. This is already as tall this Japanese boy will grow. Pikachu also jobs alot so he never swaps him out of the current 6.
>>135612093
Nope,stoped after advance battles in gen 3 I just didn't care anymore about pokemon till the heart gold/soul silver came out and found there was a manga which blew my fucking mind.
>>135613333
I dunno man, it's actually really fucking weird. In the Pokemon world, despite how much more advanced everything is than our world (they have fucking teleportation), there are huge expanses of open fields and forests even in first-world countries. Huge dirt roads where you don't see even a single car pass by. Which is probably great for them because they don't have to deal with bullshit like climate change.
>>135613403
There must be some really high-level population control and eugenics/selective breeding shit going on in the background of the series
>>135613354
Nigga are you comparing the anime to actual life and evolution? The writers didn't think of the shit you're saying when they write who wins Pokémon battles or what moves they learn. It's all done for plot convenience.
>>135613441
This, or a lot of Trainers actually die when they go on an adventure and everyone works to hide the bodies. I mean, a lot of Pokemon could roast, drown or crush a person alive
>>135613441
It's gotta be crazy inconvenient, because often in order to get from one city to the next, you have to pass through forests and caves and mountains, which must make business really, really difficult for some people.
>>135613491
>you have to pass through forests and caves and mountains,
If you're a trainer on foot. The Pokemon world apparently has trains, highways, and airports.
>>135613459
>are you comparing the anime to actual life and evolution
Yes, because the concept of having a species evolve stems directly from natural evolution, it makes sense to draw the parallel. Why do you think most Pokemon descriptions refer to how the Pokemon can dig, hide, spew water, raise his internal temperature by using its features? It's mimicking nature.
Of course, there's a shitload of plot conveniences in Pokemon, but that doesn't change the fact that the anime system actually makes more sense (and especially with the use of in-world physics rather than numbers) than the games'.
If the games are the theory with the numbers and clockwork methods, the anime is the practice.
>>135613556
There is only two major train system in the Pokemon, the one between Kanto and Johto and the station in Unova. There are no highways, yet there are large paths dedicated entirely for bicycling. There IS an airport in Unova, and I think we can probably assume that there are other airports across other regions as well. However, cars are a rarity. In fact, as far as the games go, there are only two in the entire franchise: one in Kanto near the SS Anne and another in Unova near a farm.
In fact, the most common form of transportation we ever seen in the franchise, in both the games and show, are boats. There is always a boat.
>>135613603
>but that doesn't change the fact that the anime system actually makes more sense (and especially with the use of in-world physics rather than numbers)
Not even close to how real life evolution works.
>>135613603
>>135613726
Pokemon "Evolution" is actually much closer to metamorphisis (Transforming from an immature form to an adult form in distinctive stages) than it is actual evolution.
>>135611420
https://youtu.be/b0nLEjHh0cQ
Literally all of Ash's successes were total bullshit that breaks the entire established canon for the sake of progressing the plot.
Gary was awesome, you faggot.
>>135613360
Gary had a car and was stronger than Ash.
>>135613960
>>135613933
>a corvette and an entire harem of adult women at age 10
I'll never understand why Ash didn't just kill himself from the get go.
Kinda unrelated but
>People who call Pokemon by their Japanese name
Come on. You grew up with the English names and you probably play the English games. You aren't special or cool for calling Charizard "Lizardon"
>>135613933
Gary's shown losing more than he's won.
In fact, his greatest achievement has always been faster traveling speed and an inclination to capture and keep more than one of the same Pokemon.
Then again, Ash has thirty Tauros.
>>135613993
Hell Gary probably realized how much bullshit legal not!dogfighting was and realized he could be a happier with 50 bitches and a lab coat.
>>135614018
I actually grew up with the Korean names, but I use different names depending on who I'm talking to. Here, I use English names, when speaking to Japanese people I use Korean names and when speaking to Koreans, I use Korean names.
>>135614045
He actually ditched his fangirls after he lost at the Indigo tournament.
>>135614068
>when speaking to Japanese people I use Korean names
Still hating I see.
>>135607716
Why does he get a bulge in BW?
>>135614045
Becoming a professor in the pokemon world must be piss easy.
>Yeah, I'm only ten, but I'm going to quit being a trainer and become a professor!
>Less than a year later he's already a professor with his own funding and staff.
>>135614081
I'm sure he still has a dedicated non-fangirl harem somewhere out there.
>>135614037
>>135614045
>Gary catches em all
>retires, spends the rest of his life coasting off his famous grandfather
Doesn't seem so bad. Meanwhile Ash is still sleeping in dirt and rain being harassed by Team Rocket while pursuing (and failing) the same hackneyed premise. Gary clearly won in the end.
>>135614109
He's just a genius overall. His grandpa is a famous professor, being a trainer was basically a fallback for Gary anyways.
>>135612235
Reminder that Misty is head over heels for Tracy.
I wonder how everyone would react to a teenage or young adult ash.
>>135613933
I always found it interesting both Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh didn't follow their own rules when they were popular, and once they started each respective fad died down.
>>135614102
Puberty.
>>135607716
DP Ash will forever be best Ash.
>everyone keeps saying Ash is still 10
>they don't realize he's just Japanese
>>135614199
Yugioh didn't actually have rules at first. The card games came after the show became popular.
>>135614228
Huh, I guess that makes sense. Pokemon has no excuse though, being based on the games.
>>135607716
>send in a million postcards to get your Expo hat
>abandon it like you abandoned Pidgeot and all the others
Fuck Ash.
>>135614377
I still don't understand why people get so pissed about that hat. Yeah, he sent a million postcards for it, but it was a fucking postcard hat. His mom made him a better hat. His mom made him several better hats.
>>135614488
He clearly cared a lot about the hat in season 1. He then replaces it like it's nothing, despite all of the sentimental value it was shown to have.
Initially Pokemon was not going to go on forever, so I guess the writers couldn't have anticipated the need for such a change, but the fact it wasn't addressed just adds to the filler bullshit nature of Pokemon.
>>135614575
We grow past postcard hats eventually.
>>135614575
>despite all of the sentimental value it was shown to have.
Filling time with a Mankey, as far as I recall. And that happened well over ten years ago. The fuck are you expecting?
>>135614622
or the writers sell their souls and the show adapts a perpetual non plot devoid of character development or consistency
>>135614654
Dear god, you're making a huge deal out of a trait Ash showed for just one episode. It's not even like he threw the thing away. He left it at home.
Remember when Pikachu had a thing for ketchup? For one episode? And it was never seen again since then?
>>135613933
It's funny because that's not how lightning rods work either.
>>135614708
it was emphasized in more than just one episode
but the reason most people focus on it is because of that stupid animation where he turns his hat that the first season used so often because they had no animation budget
I've reached the point as someone who'd been watching the series on Cartoon Network when they first aired the dub, that I can't even stand Team Rocket appearing anymore. Unless it's a plotline that actually varies shit up for once, literally every single goddamn time it's yet another Pikachu capture attempt or some 'pokemon of the day has their capture attention' scenario. When they literally appear for less than 3 minutes to try to capture a pokemon of the day just so that they get wrecked by said pokemon or a Mega, it makes me wonder if there was even a point to them appearing at all.
>>135614878
is it even still Jesse and James at least or did they get canned for some new lame shit
I haven't watched a damn thing since the first season
>>135614377
>>abandon it like you abandoned Pidgeot and all the others
kekled
>>135614878
Fill the space between commercials
>>135614899
It's literally Jessie, James and Meowth like it's always been, only their actual used Pokemon changed as the series goes on. There was a time during B/W where they were issued onto other duties and were genuinely competent, but it eventually got shuttled and they were back to trying to capture Pikachu and constantly (mostly) failing again.
>>135614928
>genuinely competent
Well, they still failed the majority of their missions. They were just less goofier and lost the majority of their personality, somehow miraculously becoming even shallower than they were before, if such a thing was ever possible.
>>135614928
James was always a very good Pokemon breeder. Also he's a trust fund kid isn't he?
>>135608746
They can't make Ash actually get older over time because they need to stick to their child demographic.
And they can't just replace Ash with a new character because they wouldn't be as popular and they'd have to dump Pikachu.
Thus Ash remains eternally young.
>>135614982
They really love the Mega Evolution special, though, and let's be honest, even though it was a nostalgic marketing stunt, Origins did pretty well. I wouldn't mind another Pokemon Chronicles or whatever it was called, with being a side-story series that focuses on other characters or original plotlines without having to be.. Ash.
>>135615012
Origins Red is somehow even more infuriating than Ash ever was. He had no right becoming Champion. He's a shit trainer. The worst.
>>135607716
Not to mention he's about as bland as your average harem protag. There's not a single redeeming thing about him.
The only people who seem to still watch it are old fucks who want to ship him with the new girl so I guess he works as a self insert.
>>135615050
The Naruto VA certainly didn't help. And neither did the terrible animation.
>>135614037
The only thing Ash is better at than Gary is luck. Like when Mewtwo escaped and Jessie and James took over for Giovani's gym right when Ash showed up.
Meanwhile Gary had to actually face Mewtwo.
Ash is a loser.
>>135615102
Ash has legitimately beaten multiple legendaries.
>>135615126
>>135615094
You talkin' shit about Takeuchi? She's had a few shit roles but there's nothing wrong with her.
>>135614982
>tfw they will never make a proper Pokemon anime, even as a side show
>tfw Origins was a shameless soulless cash grab that was totally disappointing outside of the nostalgia factor
>Mega Evolutions are a thing
>tfw Pokemon is kill
>>135615050
he's somehow even more of a non character
I literally didn't think there could be a more generic shonen type male MC than Ash but Origins proved me so wrong
>>135614708
I'll let you know that Pikachu X ketchup is absolutely still a thing.
>>135607716
I find his situation and hate quite ironic.
People always complain about shonenshit always going for retarded powercreeps and the MC getting stronger and stronger maybe even leaving the original cast behind.
Meanwhile Ash doesn't do that and power ups like a real human bean (in other words he basically doesn't), and yet he gets shit for doing that.
I agree on BW being absolute garbage though.
>>135615072
>he works as a self insert
People do this? You should imagine yourself to be with the girl.
It's best for Ash to finish his story now, so those people that grew up with the show since the beginning can put an end to it too as they move on in life. His best option is to win the league and be with Serena I guess.
>>135615408
>ash Ketchum loses his virginity before you
But wouldn't we kill ourselves?
>>135615408
They have no obligation to end the show for a bunch of basement-dwelling manchildren who can't move on from a Sunday morning children's program.
That's like expecting Big Bird to grow up.
>>135615408
The only ones who seem invested in shipping are a few western neckbeards on 4chan whose viewership is irrelevant. I doubt they give a fuck. The series will just continue the formula forever.
>>135614622
>giving up your 1 out of a 100 official hat of the official expo of the official Pokemon League
Look at this fucking faggot.
I'm enjoying it. And the character design is so lewd even if it doesn't want it to be.
>tfw first time fought at her gym
>oh god, pls help
Also reminder that Hoopa movie raws are out. Now we wait for subs.
>>135607716
>People keep talking about how Ash has always lost
>They don't remember the Orange Islands and the Battle Frontier
>People forget how Ash was even offered to become a Frontier Brain, although he would decline
Sure they were barely mentioned again in the series, but people keep saying that he never won anything when in fact he did win two leagues.
>>135615766
>literally filler
>>135615800
Battle Frontier isn't filler.
>>135615800
Orange island finals was one of the best matches ever, sempai.
A reminder that XY and Serena will save the franchise.
Never give up.
>>135616101
As much as I like Serena, given how the ratings have been doing, YW existing, and how bad the last two films did at the Japanese box office, it doesn't seem that way.
>>135615147
>bringing legendaries to league
>spammed hypnosis, dream eater, light screen while ash vs paul really shows how competent a trainer can be
>no backstory whatsoever
ultimate faggot
Why can't they adapt Pokemon Special? It's great.
>>135607716
AG got best shoes, DP got best pants, OS got best shirt and jacket, and OS got best hat.
Ash just follows his dream. He won't fall for all those super tempting bitches and doesn't repeat the same league over and over until he wins, he won't stray away from his lifelong goal of becoming a Pokemon master and I say good on him.
This is headcannon shit but it could be that in the Pokemon world, people age after accomplishing their dreams hence why Ash barely ages. He doesn't want to grow up, he just wants to continue meeting new friends and Pokemon forever until he finally wins a league through these experiences and not through using legendaries, being a smogonfag (don't worry, Talonflame doesn't have gale wings and Greninja doesn't have Protean) and evolving Pikachu. Ash doesn't want to evolve Pikachu because that would ruin his idea of exploring new regions with his original, trusty partner since a Raichu would be like an adult partner and not Ash's best friend. He loves getting to do the same shit over and over each region like wreck Team Rocket every day, have a friend-girl, gym leader friend and strive to become a Pokemon master through his own ideals.
Basically, Ash will never age because he wants to do what he loves most, adventuring towards a goal he chooses to never end. Wouldn't you do the same?
I remember near the end of one of the seasons showing him returning home. Inside his room were mementos of previous seasons. Maybe he keeps his original hat there, safe from hat steal monkeys?
>>135617694
>lifelong goal
he's 10, and hasn't even been doing this pokemon trainer shit for a year yet.
>>135617751
>safe from hat steal monkeys
Anon Primeape has been gone for about 18 years now. Well there's also Aipom (later Ambipom) but that got traded to Dawn and was later released. So his old hats are safe.
>>135617756
Almost each of the 900+ episodes end with the sunset. Unless the Pokemon world revolves around a much larger sun, he should be a teen. The 10 years old thing the narrator said at the start of BW fucks with the 11 years old thing from returning to Viridian City so there's clearly some paradox, probably by going though time and space many times.
The anime is never going to end.
As long as the games make money, so will Ash forever exist. So will Ash forever travel and lose every league. So will Ash forever capture Pokémon only to later release them and forget they ever existed. So will Ash never grow a single year.
That is the truth and there's no questioning or fighting it. Just move on.
>bait OP
>thread filled with underage shitting on a series they haven't watched for ages, getting the most basic details wrong
>the usual tired "points" like"hurr why does no one in this cartoon age" repeated again and again
Every timeRemember when Pokemon threads on /a/ were fun?
>>135611065
Yes it is. First off he's setting a bad example for kids. 'Hey it's okay that you're a failure! You won't live a life of poverty as long as you have fun!'. Second off why would you root for a protagonist who always loses? You're investing in someone who never accomplishes anything.
>>135611420
>This fucker is a two time champion
Yeah in the short bus leagues where one had four gyms and only 1 actually had him do a pokemon battle to get. Also he's still negative in W/L ratio
>ranks top 16 in any league tournament
This is the most 'you did your best' special ed shit ever. Nobody in the real world gives a shit unless you are number 1.
>Newbie challenges Ash with an untrained unevolved starter
>Pikachu has trouble winning
Every time.
>>135618068
Gotta sell that new shitty game
>>135612093
Been watching this shit since I was a kid, still following it
