SoundVoltex
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Sun and Moon feels like too much of a gag anime for me to enjoy. Sure, there's some serious arcs, just too few. Feels like Gintama, but Pokemon.
My only real complaints are the lack of battles and the underused characters such as Mallow and Sophocles. I think the cast would have been much tighter if it was just Ash, Lillie, and Kiawe. I do like some of the SoL episodes and the stationary setting is a nice change of pace.
That said I'm already anticipating Gen 8 since it should continue the trend of change Sun and Moon started.
We’ve had 3 gens of change. They need to stick to something
Oh, I really wished that. He hold the recent companions/classmates potentials back imo. But he's far too important for this anime along with Pikachu.The biggest change is yet to happen: Replacing Ash with a new main character.
Yeah but said arc was often hard to get invested with given they appeared so briefly and was often executed in a monotonous way. "Battles" usually consisted of beating up Team Rocket in a completely one sided way with the same one or two attacks, which get REALLY boring after a while (I don't mind bumbling villains so long as they have an entertaining dynamic with the heroes, Team Rocket are funny but don't qualify at all in that regard). Very often the protagonists themselves felt like reactors; guys who just wandered around, observed things and didn't have a lot of involvement besides something very easy and indistinct like aforementioned easy one sided beatings. If they were lucky they got a competition arc, though that didn't necessarily make their character interesting, it just gave them something to do in what, often 10% of the series.
I do appreciate that, while there are SOME 'fluff' fillers in SM (though I don't think anymore so than previous series) a lot of them feel more character driven on the protagonists side. In that rather than just focusing on a one shot they focus on the twerps themselves. This is the first series in ages where Ash recurrently drives an episode just by personality alone. Some can consider it pointless, but it is a way for the audience to care about him, to be invested when he DOES do a big plot.
NO WAY. Comedy ok. But to much comedy? Alola feels so small. Now will they suddenly give Rowlet focus after the only focus episode was his capture. TR is the only thing I like about SM.
Is that really true, though? A general series these days is about 140 episodes. If we followed the game structure instead of the weird trial system the anime implements...Alola is small. Like, actually tiny. I really don't think a traditional travel story would work without toooooons of filler
Is that really true, though? A general series these days is about 140 episodes. If we followed the game structure instead of the weird trial system the anime implements...
7 Trials, 8 if we're including USUM changes
4 Grand Trials
1 for each of those to introduce the Captains/Kahunas
That's 23 episodes, not counting in case there are any 2-parters.
10 on the villain plot, to be safe. So we're now up to 33.
In a traditional travel story, Ash gets up to 5 Pokemon caught, and his companions get 2-3. For the purposes let's assume then, we have 5 capture episodes for Ash. 2 for each companion to a rounded total of 4. Add 9 episodes and we're up to 41.
Now let's factor in a league, usually about 7 episodes. 48 episodes total.
Evolutions? We'll assume the average of about 6-7 evolution episodes across the board, but we can play fast and loose with that. 55 episodes.
These are just things we could've guaranteed would happen. Throw in some rival episodes, some other move or focus episodes, possibly some Z-Crystal episodes not associated with the other 11/12 and we're likely reaching into the 70s or 80s on non-filler episodes alone. And that's a lenient, rough estimate.
It's not impossible to do a journey series for Alola (I would know; I wrote an 85 chapter journey fic for it), but they chose not to. Which isn't bad in and of itself. But they didn't earn it or make us ever think it was necessary in-universe.
Do you even know how many towns and other locations are added into the anime to begin with? It's not impossible to add more locations. That's fallacious thinking at best. Just because the current anime has decided to restrict 80% of events to Melemele and Hau'oli doesn't mean there aren't a plethora of locations. Heck, in this anime there's a grand total of 10 locations we haven't even touched that aren't even related to the trial plot.Alola AS A REGION is very compact. I REEEAAALLY doubt they could stretch a Journey over the islands without adding a ton of areas not present in the games which THEY ALREADY DO without travelling. The region is not built for a traditional travel show.
Do you even know how many towns and other locations are added into the anime to begin with? It's not impossible to add more locations. That's fallacious thinking at best. Just because the current anime has decided to restrict 80% of events to Melemele and Hau'oli doesn't mean there aren't a plethora of locations. Heck, in this anime there's a grand total of 10 locations we haven't even touched that aren't even related to the trial plot.
But I could also think of about 7-8 locations where a town could be placed if they so chose. It's actually very easy to write a travel around Alola.
It's different fro other regions. you can't pad out the legs between towns if theres water surrounding every shot. With a mainland region you can duck off into a forrest or climb a mountain or something. Kiawe literally travels the entire region every morning before school to drop off milk. It's not a traditional travel series so not every location needs to be used, that's not the focus.
Galactic and Hunter J are better, it took until near the very end of Team Flare just to attack while the DP villains were more consistent and challenging, especially Hunter J.Anime Team Flare was the best villain arc they did, with Galactic second. Every other villain team they manage to screw up in some form.
Galactic and Hunter J are better, it took until near the very end of Team Flare just to attack while the DP villains were more consistent and challenging, especially Hunter J.
It all comes down to intent, though.Galactic and Hunter J are better, it took until near the very end of Team Flare just to attack while the DP villains were more consistent and challenging, especially Hunter J.