pokemon fan 132
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Brock's not even a Gym leader anymore and Misty hasn't had a cameo in 7 years. It is unlikely to see any old Gym leaders because the writers would have to track down their VA's for 10 years ago.
I doubt this would be any issue at all.
In multimillion franchise like pokemon producers have more than enough money on their disposal to hire VA back to voice older character in case of coming back.
If writers had no problems in hiring Jasmine voice actor to play her in Sinnoh, as well hiring new Va after Giovanni original VA died in order to revive his character whose role was in BW increased, should tell us how there is no reason why they couldn't do same for others.
If expansion on World tournament happens after league, Misty has chance to return because of marketing purposes, and because this provides plausible way to return character and advance story of becoming water master. Not to mention all that demand for return guaranteeing with itself massive boost in ratings.
World tournament isn't only viable option either because she could return for anything else, still having marketing value because of existence in games.
Same applies to Brock who doesn't have to be leader to comeback and help promote new games.
Its obvious how Nintendo and Gamefreak didn't gave anything new on table for writers to work with aside from World tournament. So either they will be forced to expand on it and reuse older characters, or do anime only arc which still doesn't erase chance for seeing some of familiar faces eventually.
I was right about Brock leaving, about TR coming to their conclusion, about Misty not meeting Dawn, about Trip being a terrible rival from the start...I'll be right about this too.
About Brock and TR, even "broken clock is right twice a day". You were saying how Brock will leave and TR get conclusion ever since end of Johto. Sooner or later you were bound to be right.
As for Trip "being bad rival" that's matter of opinion, not being possible to be right or wrong about this.
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