UltimateNinja
Praying for the holy relics
So something I've thought about the current SM series was the pacing of Ash's trial quest. Pretty much half of the region is already done after Ash won against Olivia. And it even looks like they're preparing for the Aether Foundation arc/climax based on the new episode summaries. The AF plot pretty much started on the exact same time like in the games, just right after the second island.
The problem here is the pacing. It didn't even took fourty episodes until we're pretty much done with the half region and there are probably only four more trials left (with them probably getting packed near together like with the first two islands). If they're going to continue with this pacing, then we're probably done with the island trial quest + a possible league by episode 80-90.
So what after that? If the next generation starts at the end of 2018, then the actual pacing would fit. If not then they have to fill more than fourty episodes between the league and Gen 8. As of now there's nothing like a Battle Frontier announced for USUM.
One idea I had would be Ash retaking the Kanto gyms for some reasons (maybe his Kanto badges expired?) because we saw Kanto gyms in USUM screenshots.
The problem here is the pacing. It didn't even took fourty episodes until we're pretty much done with the half region and there are probably only four more trials left (with them probably getting packed near together like with the first two islands). If they're going to continue with this pacing, then we're probably done with the island trial quest + a possible league by episode 80-90.
So what after that? If the next generation starts at the end of 2018, then the actual pacing would fit. If not then they have to fill more than fourty episodes between the league and Gen 8. As of now there's nothing like a Battle Frontier announced for USUM.
One idea I had would be Ash retaking the Kanto gyms for some reasons (maybe his Kanto badges expired?) because we saw Kanto gyms in USUM screenshots.