horrahforyou
Pokemon and Kamen Rider is life
Tepig and Litten's backstories were touching
Tepig's was literally Charmander's story, except with a rope instead of heavy rain endangering its life.Tepig and Litten's backstories were touching
His backstory was just a grandpa Stoutland took him in.Incineroar has the backstory imo, although Infernape had better development
Then what kind of story would you like to have from a starter that it wasn't done in the anime before? Things might be cliche at this point but it's hardly a Pokemon anime only problem.His backstory was just a grandpa Stoutland took him in.
Then he died.
Alongside whatever endearing trait he had with him until it was reduced to an overused rival plot with another cat.
See, that's the thing. For something that is this long, good ideas become increasingly scarce, even more so when they're not elaborated upon.Then what kind of story would you like to have from a starter that it wasn't done in the anime before? Things might be cliche at this point but it's hardly a Pokemon anime only problem.
For greninja, not only did this form which looks like ash existed thousands of years ago for a random dude too, its origin for me seems half assed.
Not only was the origin random and totally unrelated to everything that happened after that, but if you had told me after XY&Z07 that ZERO NINJAS would ever appear in again in the history of the show, I would say 0% chance that's true. They clearly set up some relationship between the ninjas and Ash-Greninja during that 2-parter, even going as far as to have a cliffhanger ending with them talking about how Ash-Greninja has returned as the hero from 1000 years ago or whatever............. only to never mention that again and the ninjas never appear again? How on earth does that random guy from 1000 years ago connect to TF, the vines, Squishy, and Lysandre? It's never explained. Trash origin story.
And it was barely utilized after the episode(think the whole Stoutland thing was mentioned one time after the episode when Litten evolved into Torracat). This is why I said it was uninteresting and boring because I didn't feel like it meant much.
It is funny because ...
and when the ninjas plot was never utilized again and Greninja wasn't the chosen Hero until the penultimate episode of XY, and even then it wasn't related to the ninjas plot
...I consider Froakie's origin story to be his atual origin story, that being where he abandoned many of his previous trainers for not being up to par and choosing Ash. I don't understand how you think is some sort of dunk lmao. The Ninja Arc was background development used to ground the Bond Phenomenon in a more tangible way. One can definitely claim it should have been used more and tied in much more after the original arc ended, but the way you're using it is stretching it.