So at what point did many of you become Amourshippers?
I know some of you likely did as soon as Serena was revealed. As much as I wanted to believe it, I was very cautious about becoming one at first because it'd never happened in the past and after the disastrous BW anime I had very low expectations going into XY. When XY started and I realized it was good I began to have more hopes, but again I felt at best we'd get the same level of hints as Misty did. When "A Battle by Any Other Name" aired, that's when I came on board. The scene where Miette asks Ash if he has anyone to "take care of him" and Serena has this deathstare from the side put me over the edge to finally become a shipper, and then when Miette confronts her about it and Serena doesn't even attempt to deny it cemented my belief in the ship going somewhere.
Well, I think I told this story already a billion times but, let's go again.
I was born in... Okay, wait, not that far. CUT CUT.
I grew up with AG and AP and was aware of OS. I didn't like that too much because I wanted to see new Pokémon so I screwed OS. I did like AG and I watched it entirely I think. I was still young so shipping was far from what I knew what it even was, so I was never a Advanceshipper. (Although I was aware of May blushing into Drew was a sign of... + I didn't took that seriously) Then DP came and I also liked it. I actually developed a hate against Paul but that's just me I hate mean people xD. But in the end I was fine with him because he learned not to be mean anymore. So DP was over, new series game out. This was also the first time Brock wasn't in the maincast anymore eventhough I thought he would last forever. Then BW came out and I had to go to High School so I had fewer and fewer time to watch the Animé still so I stopped.
This summer I heard of Pokémon GO and everybody was playing it like crazy. So I wanted to play it too. Wait what has this to do with the Animé? Hold your Ryhorns, I'm not done yet! So I got interest back in Pokémon and found out about Smogon. I strated playing that and I remembered I use Serebii a lot for Pokémon info and moves etc.. So 1 day I visited Serebii and was looking to the right. I saw that there was a League going on. I was thinking it was still from BW but after some searching I realized this was not BW anymore but a whole new series! I didn't fully got my interest yet but I decided to take a peak at the XY(Z) series. So I watched the 1 episode. And Yay, I was happy there was a new girl (screw Iris sorry) and she seemed to known Ash from before. So I watched till episode 7 I think and realized that this girl had a crush on Ash and holy you should have seen my face that moment xD.
So from that day I rushed through XY and wacthed very episode. I did like 3 hours a day and I liked it. Especially with all those 'Amour' hints I found it pretty interesting. I didn't know this had a name but bumped into PRB and his 'Amour videos' where I learned a lot from. That's when I really got interested because I felt like I was not alone who liked the ship. And I didn't know it had a large fanbase but after a lot of talking here and there I realized most of the people were just like me. They got interested back in the Animé because of this ship. So here we are, today, 3 November 2016. Still can't believe what happened previous week. I wonder what people will think if they get in to this seris id it is already ended but they haven't seen it. BUt they accidentally bumped into a 'Serena kisses Ash' video. I what would have happened if Pokémon GO never came out. It would mean I never came back for Animé and would've never met Amour. Thanks God Niantic for Pokémon GO xD.