I don't like how the dub started to pronounce Johto Johdo.
This was the first time since Goh started using his Gokédex that the camera actually showed other stuff while she's talking instead of wasting multiple seconds of valuable screentime on a freezeframe of one still image of said Pokémon.
I didn't like the montage of still images as they climbed up the final few flights.
Two more effortless captures for Go (Misdreavus and Stantler). YAWN. Is it so hard to add a short battle?
Wow. This is gonna sound stupid but despite how much Goh always catches everything, for some reason I did not expect their solution/way out of this to be his catching them both.
Go thinks catching every pokémon will give him enough skill or experience to catch Mew. His goal was originally make Mew his first pokémon but that all changed because of Scorbunny
It's so stupid how he went from one extreme, to another, for seemingly no reason.
The set up is not bad but it sure needs some form of compromise. Doesn't have to be Galar gyms - and please, anything but that - but I dunno, things such as Don George's tournaments can help a bit.
I even wished that Flute Cup a few episodes ago had been at least a 2-parter, but I guess that wouldn't make sense when Goh is gonna get swept, and Ash is gonna sweep everything. Nothing else makes sense, and there's no reason to stretch it out to two episodes. Then again, at least until Goh gets better and/or Ash gets competition somehow, tournaments probably aren't going to be more than one episode. I also don't understand why Chloe hasn't done more. I went into this anime thinking it was an anime with at least three main characters, since that's how every previous generation has been, and for the first few episodes I was surprised Chloe hadn't done anything. Now I'm less surprised since I get the shtick, but it's a stupid shtick tbh, for multiple reasons: first of all, with just the two of them, you're right, there's nothing going on. A third character could spice things up. Second of all, it's a waste of the character Chloe. I wonder why she even appears in the op.
Anyway, about the Rotom voice actress, how does she act so bad and still gets the money and role? Is it because she looks kind of Gaijin? She won a prize? Its her last wish before dying and they gave her the role? Was it connections? Or do they said to her to do it bad on purpose? I'm really curious...
I'm not sure how true this is but I've heard it's bc she speaks English?
I think that, ever since the start of BW, there's been a steady slump in the anime. The staff wanted to do new stuff and reinvent everything which meant dumping the old formula which was fine.
Well I think the biggest problem is not switching it up after BW, but the fact that they now keep switching it up every generation. If it was a one-time switch after BW, but then BW-PJ was all another "connected" story for several generations the way that OS-DP felt, then it wouldn't be a problem. But instead, Da!-XY feels like a separate thing from BW, then SM feels like separate from XYZ, then PJ now feels separate from SM. It's the multiple separations that causes the bigger problem to me, and the slump, as you say.
It'd be nice if they went into more of the lore of the world. That's always fun. I know they don't intend on doing more with the concept but if they talked about the Aura Guardians a little more, or maybe about a town that legendaries arrive in sometimes, it could pique people's interest. It feels like forever since we've had a good legend that we didn't already know, at least I think it's been a while
I think the biggest reason for the lack of recent new legends is that SM movies were in an AU. It always felt to me that the movies were where the best fleshing-out of anime-only stories related to legends happened. They've lost this opportunity by switching up the movies.