Well, at least make her wear her Sygna Suit or pretend it's just a suit for a Sinnoh party, but things are still too ambiguous to connect the dots anyway. Doesn't help much that she doesn't use its Z-Move.What else would it be? It's literally the only place she's associated with it.
Then why did they milk Mr. Mime's CGI meme face for all it was worth. That one was very blatantly an overlong "nod" to Detective Pikachu.That defeats the purpose of a nod.
Kommo-o fighting would have been too hard to animate compared to Togekiss just sitting there on its ass spamming the same move thrice. Cynthia doing the Z-Move dance too. Please understand. Small indie animation studio. We would have had to sacrifice the Garchomp vs Mega Lucario sakuga if we had done that...Are we even sure her Kommo-o was a nod to Masters at all.
Kommo-o would have likely replaced Gastrodon or Milotic if it were used since they got screentime in Iris' battle with her. Togekiss likely would have remained as it replaced her Lucario from the games since Ash has one this series.Kommo-o fighting would have been too hard to animate compared to Togekiss just sitting there on its ass spamming the same move thrice. Cynthia doing the Z-Move dance too. Please understand. Small indie animation studio. We would have had to sacrifice the Garchomp vs Mega Lucario sakuga if we had done that...
While an issue with his entire JN team was needing more screentime, there was hardly any Lucario glorification here. For one, Lucario didn't even appear till the end of the battle. Besides that, it's wins the justified given how hard Togekiss was to take down (Bullet Punch at the end of the second episode to the ground, the second bullet punch to its back when it was Dmax, then the powered up Aura Sphere to its face, and finally the last wave of punched), and Togekiss was a tank.And so Ash's won. Honestly, not sure how I feel about it which is quite dissapointing. Ash vs Cynthia AND ending up with our boy finally suceeding would've been so hype... Had it happened differently. The way done, with further glorification for Lucario was just sickening not going to lie. At least past "aces" like Charizard, Greninja and, yes, even Pikachu were fallible in the sense they had obstacles. Lucario's had what? Bea back when it was a Riolu? They just push Ash and Lucario as a good match so much, anytime the show starts go on this I start wondering how much longer until they put an angel horde descending from heaven and chanting about how goodly holy it is.
While an issue with his entire JN team was needing more screentime, there was hardly any Lucario glorification here. For one, Lucario didn't even appear till the end of the battle. Besides that, it's wins the justified given how hard Togekiss was to take down (Bullet Punch at the end of the second episode to the ground, the second bullet punch to its back when it was Dmax, then the powered up Aura Sphere to its face, and finally the last wave of punched), and Togekiss was a tank.
Lastly the final brawl/slugest had the pokemon wear each other down, and winning by Reversal was the smartest strategy of the episode. Sure there's the overall aspect that all his JN pokemon shouldn't be this strong, but in context of this battle, it was well done. I hardly see Lucario being glorified at all here, the writers were rather restrained here. The writers are hardly glorifying it compared to what you typed above, I hope you could enjoy it.
Sums up my thoughts pretty much lol but yeah, this match is my absolute fav of Journeys and one of my all time fav battles in the series now. Finally seeing Ash make his wish of fighting and beating Cynthia a reality was a real pleasure and was a super big treat to my younger self that grew up with DP.Ahhhhh Im ABSOLUTELY in love with this battle and how it went down!!!
That final fight was brief but man it was BRUTUAL! I loved how brutual it was and wished it went on longer. Also really liked the Dynamax Togekiss fight a lot more than I expected!!
All in all, I think my major complaint with this episode is the whole retire thing aspect. Im not sure Im correct but it seems Ash convinced her not to retire as expected. I wish she did though, as in participating in tournaments she doesnt need to and only defending her title, leading to a proper farewell of her and Ash and hopefully the iconic DP line 'when one life meets another, something new is borne'
Also I love they show us Cynthia was mad enough to go and fish a feebas lmao, esp with how hard it is in DP
Love the hype for Chainsaw man, don't really read mangas first aside from a few exceptions but looking forward to watching it. However most importantly, SpyxFamily is coming back and that means more YorWell now that Cynthia's gone, fortunately Chainsaw Man is starting soon so you can go and simp 100% for Makima
Bro I literally gaspedBro when she went dragom claw with her fingers ufff. Absolute beast
He makes clickbatey videos sometimes but hes usually pretty sane, stuff like that are just theoriesI do not dare to ask who this PokeRaf guy is, nor do I believe there's absolutely any need at all to mention crazy Youtubers.