Sceptile Master
Survivor of the Great Avatar Depression
(Aight, I may have just had a drink and haven't been on here in years, so I hope I'm posting this in accordance with the rules and everything.)
Disclaimer: Minus like 2 episodes maybe of DP and non-dubbed episodes, I've only watched the [English] dub.
Well, title says most of it all. Do you still regularly watch the anime? It doesn't even have to be newer episodes, do you still regularly watch it?
I love the anime and it's one of my favorites, but I haven't regularly watched it in years. I stopped watching around what must've been mid-DP saga (when Ash got Gligar or so). I don't entirely know why or how to explain it: I got poked fun at for watching by one of my mother's acquaintances (or so my ~11 year old self thought anyway), and I don't wanna say it got boring (as a whole anyway), but it lost a sort of charm for me that I seemed to notice more in both the older dub (TPCI had been dubbing for what, 2 years at the time?), and older series in general. Besides some TPCi-related things, the filler seemed to be more... filler-like around the time. I felt like older filler at least showed more fun situations and characterization compared to what was being shown at the moment. It doesn't feel like a chore to watch Pokemon or anything, but it... feels different, at least with a portion of the newer episodes? Like it's not like I'd be forcing myself to watch it, but compared to the older episodes anyway, I feel like I can't escape into it as easy? This isn't true of every show for me, but I also find some (nostalgic?) pleasure in just watching what I can, whatever I can like it was back in muh VHS days (or once in a while, like when 4Kids only aired it once a week).
That's the best I can word it all anyway. I don't know if anyone has or is experiencing something similar, but regardless, share if you do or not, and if you don't I'd be interested why not!
Disclaimer: Minus like 2 episodes maybe of DP and non-dubbed episodes, I've only watched the [English] dub.
Well, title says most of it all. Do you still regularly watch the anime? It doesn't even have to be newer episodes, do you still regularly watch it?
I love the anime and it's one of my favorites, but I haven't regularly watched it in years. I stopped watching around what must've been mid-DP saga (when Ash got Gligar or so). I don't entirely know why or how to explain it: I got poked fun at for watching by one of my mother's acquaintances (or so my ~11 year old self thought anyway), and I don't wanna say it got boring (as a whole anyway), but it lost a sort of charm for me that I seemed to notice more in both the older dub (TPCI had been dubbing for what, 2 years at the time?), and older series in general. Besides some TPCi-related things, the filler seemed to be more... filler-like around the time. I felt like older filler at least showed more fun situations and characterization compared to what was being shown at the moment. It doesn't feel like a chore to watch Pokemon or anything, but it... feels different, at least with a portion of the newer episodes? Like it's not like I'd be forcing myself to watch it, but compared to the older episodes anyway, I feel like I can't escape into it as easy? This isn't true of every show for me, but I also find some (nostalgic?) pleasure in just watching what I can, whatever I can like it was back in muh VHS days (or once in a while, like when 4Kids only aired it once a week).
That's the best I can word it all anyway. I don't know if anyone has or is experiencing something similar, but regardless, share if you do or not, and if you don't I'd be interested why not!
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