Are you okay....? Cap is nothing like Satoshi's Pikachu.
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Perfectly put. The amount of mental gymnastics it takes to hold both of those complaints ("too many losses" vs. "too much winning/development") simultaneously is genuinely headache-inducing.
If the simple fact that Roy is succeeding is what's making them find flaws with the show's entire format (battling equals development!), then they need to just say that. It really all boils down to an inability to accept that this character, who they don't like, is the one getting the focus. Everything else is just noisy nitpicking trying to make a simple show sound like a complex tragedy.
Just to add to this. My main complaint with the horizon anime is that the story telling seems too much of a debby-downer.
Its just been an underwhelming adventure in my opinion;
Girl and boy protagonist meet a veteran crew of trainers (RVT), then go on an adventure to discover / solve a mystery regarding a fable trainer (Lucius) not many know about, expect partially in fiction story telling, which leads them into conflict with a shady organization, which was founded by the deceased trainer (Lucius).
The heroes (RVT) fail their mission within months of their first voyage. They lose their co-leader (Friede), decide to give up , then split up to focus on other tasks not relevant to their initial goal, instead of carrying out or fulfilling the will of their fallen comrade and the legacy of the fabled trainer they dedicated their time to focus on aiding.
Both protagonist (Liko and Roy) accomplished very little within their first year as pokemon trainers, catching very minimal (3 to 4) pokemon and just learning the concepts of a battle gimmick (terastalizination), a gimmick we're told within the story that many trainers around the world are capable of accomplishing if they take a course, which lowers the feat of their mastery of it.
Although Roy continues his training during the RVT disband one year timespan, what he accomplishes within a year, is so obscure, since the story as of now only revealed that his team of pokemon he obtained prior to the timeskip have remained arguably unchanged ( no new movesets or evolution) in their development within a year of trainining. Roy states he’s been training for over a year, yet his veteran team of pokemon again don’t acquire new movesets since his year long absence from the RVT, and his newest capture (Lucario) hasn’t learned anything new since its ownership under Roy, showcased in the mega evolution arc.
I was hoping the timeskip, would have allowed for Roy to reveal new battle tactics he picked-up from trainers he’s met around the world or techniques learned in battle tournaments, to give us some hints on who he may have met or trained under.
I’m hoping the story gives some surprise twist / revelation that Roy visited the gen 10 region, and mastered / utilizes a new and challenging battle gimmick from that region just to showcase the fruits of his endeavors as a trainer. But this may never happened within the story so I can only just imagine.
Overall, the story just feels as if its going for the sake of continuation.
