marto_motoko
Steel Trainer
This is something that I have a variety of questions about.
I've been watching the movies recently (stopped watching the anime a looong time ago, mainly due to work, school, etc and a heavier focus on the games), but one thing that the movies refreshed in my mind that the anime used to always make me think - what about Ho-oh made him so pivotal to Ash?
Ash's first two episodes feature Ho-oH, and so does the final episode of Johto, and the final of Kanto. We have so many guest appearances of what is deemed in the beginning to be a strongly important Pokemon, however, we never truly get anything vitally significant to be shown about it.
There's been very few Ho-oh oriented things in the anime, and most surprisingly, the supposed creator of the Legendary Trio of dogs, and the counter-part to Lugia, happens to be one of the only legendaries to not be featured in its own film, followed only alongside the three psychics from Gen IV, Cresselia, and Kyogre.
Do you think Ho-oh was perhaps an idea that they didn't feel could be well invested in? Does anyone actually happen to have any links to interviews, or just previous discussion ideas of why Ho-oh kind of bit the dust as a plot element?
I guess there's just so much that was invested in this pokemon back in the beginning of it all, that I feel the obscurity that it was in the later and now current parts was rather shocking.
Thoughts?
PS: Please try to hold an actually intellectual bit of conversation, and no "Ho-oh looks lame that's why" or anything of that sort. I'm discussing value of character, not design choices.
I've been watching the movies recently (stopped watching the anime a looong time ago, mainly due to work, school, etc and a heavier focus on the games), but one thing that the movies refreshed in my mind that the anime used to always make me think - what about Ho-oh made him so pivotal to Ash?
Ash's first two episodes feature Ho-oH, and so does the final episode of Johto, and the final of Kanto. We have so many guest appearances of what is deemed in the beginning to be a strongly important Pokemon, however, we never truly get anything vitally significant to be shown about it.
There's been very few Ho-oh oriented things in the anime, and most surprisingly, the supposed creator of the Legendary Trio of dogs, and the counter-part to Lugia, happens to be one of the only legendaries to not be featured in its own film, followed only alongside the three psychics from Gen IV, Cresselia, and Kyogre.
Do you think Ho-oh was perhaps an idea that they didn't feel could be well invested in? Does anyone actually happen to have any links to interviews, or just previous discussion ideas of why Ho-oh kind of bit the dust as a plot element?
I guess there's just so much that was invested in this pokemon back in the beginning of it all, that I feel the obscurity that it was in the later and now current parts was rather shocking.
Thoughts?
PS: Please try to hold an actually intellectual bit of conversation, and no "Ho-oh looks lame that's why" or anything of that sort. I'm discussing value of character, not design choices.