Once again i wouldn’t really blame the audience on this one. They’re the victims. The writers are the ones who made her kiss him. It’s natural to expect a closure to her feelings. They shouldn’t have done that if they had no intentions of doing anything with it.
I agree that there should be closure.
However, when shipping in this particular anime goes so far that adults are hating/insulting other characters, discrediting other pairings, and outright feel that the anime will be
ruined if it doesn’t address it, then yeah, it has gone too far.
I mean, Serena has already ‘won’ if status quo holds, even if it feels half-complete. So unless the writers have Ash and Misty/
Latias blush at each other, then there’s no need for anyone to worry. And nobody should be worrying over something like this.
I agree with this. Imagine the animosity from the Japanese fans if the writers do nothing at all or outright sank the ship
The Japanese fandom isn’t a monolith…
Right now the problem is that they refuse to acknowledge the elephant in the room, while teasing other ships at the same time. This clearly reeks of haremsh!t.
This is hardly surprising. Misty, Dawn, Lillie, and a bunch of minor characters have gotten teased with Ash over the years.
Serena is the only one with the outright obvious confirmed crush, with Misty’s more implied back in OS.