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Hmm that's tough to say, but I think it goes: Kiawe>Lillie>Mallow>Sophocles>Lana

Yeah that looks about right. Do you think the show would’ve been better if it were Ash, Kiawe and Lillie as the main group traveling Alola with the others serving as maybe reoccurring characters?

Probably, but even then, in such a scenario, Lillie's whole story would've needed a major change, closer to the game version.

That's what I feel. Idiotic episodes like SM028 and SM051 (baseball and rope jumping episodes) were frankly very well animated episodes, and none of the few battles and arcs we've gotten this series looked as good. Of course I'm not attributing the poor battles this series only due to animation, since as you've said, poor pacing, storyboarding and choreography have also lead to that.

The Nanu battle in particular was really hard to watch due to all those reasons mentioned. I really disliked that battle.

Oh man don’t even get me started on the Nanu battle though I do admit that my primary issue with that battle is more to do with the in-battle writing quality that honestly makes it very hard to believe that SM Ash is a successor of his DP and XY selves in terms of trainer skill.

Yeah. Honestly, Makoto = best, but I love so many of the other girls equally. So for me, Ann, Futaba and even Haru all tied for second best.

My favorite confidant is hands down Kawakami and Sojiro. Love Sae as well.

Hmm... interesting. I mean I liked all the PT members but honestly there’s a pretty clear divide between Makato&Futaba and Ann&Haru in terms of character writing. At least the majority agree that Makoto is best girl :-).

That 'new' Pokémon aside, lol wtf is up with the names of the new moves. Floaty Fall, Bouncy Bubble, Buzzy Buzz, Pika Papow, Sizzly Slide, Splishy Splash, Veevee Volley. It's like the translators think kids are dumber than ever now with these super childish names.

Do you know what the direct Japenease translations would be? Anyways if they think that using such names will overturn the gradually decreasing young player turnover rate then they’re in for a rude awakening.

Pokemon's current direction is really starting to make me jaded at this point. I really hope gen 8 turns out alright (and please let it not be contaminated by Go)

Sometimes yes. But truthfully, I feel like I've lost a major portion of my interest in Pokémon for everything due to gen VII as a whole. Hated the games, and the anime is pretty rubbish as well.

Yeah, unfortunately as have I. I'm holding my hopes for gen 8, but if it doesn't look like it'll be changing, I'm pretty sure I'll be fully done with everything Pokemon. Including Serebii. Hope you'll stay till gen 8 at least

I've not yet seen the last episode, but yeah, the first three, while not bad, definitely don't convey a sense of danger. This arc hasn't been bad, just really underwhelming.

I know. Absolutely epic part. The phantom thieves were set up. And you'll see that sae niijima hands down has the best palace and music (an̶d̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶d̶s̶ ̶u̶p̶,̶ ̶s̶h̶a̶d̶o̶w̶ ̶s̶a̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶H̶O̶T̶ ̶a̶f̶).

Anyway, who's your favorite PT member, and non PT member?

Also, did you feel like beating the crap out of Sugimura, that shithead fiance of Haru's? What a creep lol, especially when he says 'a high school fiance, what a turn on'.

You can Google that, since I'm not sure what personas you can get in the palace. What I do remember is this one persona called Berith, which I thought was pretty strong for the first boss.

Persona = Pokémon without a Pokémon center; I learnt that the hard way xD.

Lol yup. You're screwed whenever Joker gets knocked out, so always carry tons of medicine with you.

I see. The character chemistry was pretty good though the most interesting part for me was definitely the whole “physical representation of people’s inner conflict” concept which I’m guessing falls on the “darker” side of the game.

Yeah the whole point of persona is that people have another side, but they're achieved through different means in each game. How the characters unlock their persona in P5 is different from P4 and so on. Generally the "dark" side of these games always comes from the main theme the characters are dealing with in the game.

Oh and lastly, I can't stress this enough, do play this game with high volume (or at least a decent amount). The soundtrack is incredible.

Yeah that’s fair; Misty did have a really strong strong characterization in Kanto/OI. For Dawn what I reallly liked was how much attention was given to her intial characterizatin and more importantly how they thoroughly contrast it with her new characterization post her major development arc.

Also yeah pre-XY60 Serena would also be between Misty and Iris for me in terms of design.

I really loved Kanto Misty, since her fiery and snarky attitude made for some great humour with Ash and Brock in OS (that is real humour, not the often awful 'humour' SM tries too hard with).

However, she really fell of in Johto and was literally a background character

Yeah I’ve heard great things about the Persona franchise. I’ll definitely try to get 5.

Oh darn! I realy liked the SM over world style; it would honestly feel wired to go back to chibi.

Nothing much about gen 8, just that Ishihara saying it'll contain many new Pokémon (could be just to hype), and that longterm fans of the series would appreciate it (somewhere along these lines).

No. I've been considering getting it, but I'm just too occupied with God of War at the moment. I'll probably get Fortnite eventually.

Ok, it's free, well if you get that, will you add me as a friend, so we can play together? :D You can play solo, duos or Squad. I am thinking if Genaller, POkemonBattleFanatic get it too, so we can play Squad :D

Yeah not bad. Having break, so enjoying God of War. I haven't been too active here since I find SM currently to be really crap, so I don't really care in discussing (also can't stand majority of the people here lol).

Cool :-); I myself am also enjoying a long needed break. Yeah I understand (I don’t think I’ll be discussing anything major about SM until the series ends, so that I can properly rate Ash’s SM Pokémon). Since we’re both on break, are you up for some good old Pokémon battling sometime?