A stretch is making a claim or assertions without and evidence or logical thought process to back it up. Would you disagree?
You specifically said that "I have this crazy feeling that YOU, the main protagonist, is GameFreak's take on Yellow." This would imply that you think that Game Freak is basing their game's main character on a manga character. If I did misread, then you probably could have stood to word it better too.
If we're talking about just this forum, I've seen no more or less negative or positive posts than before. There are a few people responding directly to your posts, making comments about the manga, but there has not been an overall shift, at least as far as I can tell.
Not the entire games, sure, but bits and pieces. You've already done that by suggesting that the Elite Four artwork of this game is inspired by the Elite Four artwork from the manga.
As I already attempted to explain, that's not a connection at all. I am referring to actual connections that could have led to Game Freak taking inspiration from the manga. Fans being positive about an already made game does not change what references are and aren't made by that game. Manga fans being a positive about the game does not lead Game Freak to have official art from the game based off of art from the manga.
If that's the case, then it shouldn't be hard to give me an example, right? Give me an undeniably non-theoretical connection between the two, and I'll admit I'm wrong on this point.
1. A stretch is making a claim or assertions without and evidence or logical thought process to back it up. By that definition, practically all my connections and comparisons are not stretches.
2. I said that but I made it clear I meant your the new kid in Kanto, the fourth musketeer, not literally Yellow. So yes, you misread it. Actually I am, no offense, noticing a trend here of arguments based on misreadings.
3. Actually there are many posts here stating the manga's relevance from the recent trailer. However I will admit that it's partly my fault for the misleading sentence. What I mean is it's one of the major highlight of this forum currently and it's somewhat bothersome for Leaf fans across the world wide web, not bothersome for Leaf fans on Serebii.
4. I never suggested it. I said it was like an evolution between the pictures, something a couple people acknowledged because of both artstyles are very similar to Sugimori's work.
5. You should've made that clearer. No, there aren't any solid connections from the manga to the games but that still does not change the fact of the observed chain effect between the two and how my previous point is based on what you clearly said previously, connections between the games and manga from either side, vice-versa. Also I've never said official art from the games to be based off of art from the manga, what are you even talking about?
6. I've already given you the chain-effect example before but if you want another one, the unused female protagonists first concrete introduction in the manga of course, not the remakes. It's not a coincidence that she looks exactly like her remake and Let's Go counterpart.
I'm going to be frank here but I feel like this discussion is going to be an annoying drag constantly slowed down because of constant misreadings mixed with obviously different opinions of what fits what, like for example, what fits your definition of a stretch. You stated a good definition but you failed to consider how, from different opinions, can fit differently in that definition you stated. From my point of view, you exact definition says that most of what I've said isn't a stretch, that my connections are claims or assertions with real evidence and logical though processes behind it. From your point of view however, your trying to argue based on your opinion, not your facts, that it does fit the definition of a stretch, that it is a stretch because you don't think there are any connections even though I have stated them. Actually now that I think about it, with all these misreadings, the fact that you mentioned that you thought I said the official art from the games is clearly based on the manga even though I have never said that makes me think that possible a good chunk of the examples you think that are a big stretch don't even exist because you may have misread them and that is apparently a consistent trend I'm saying in this discussion.
So since we both don't like to waste precious time on such things, how about we leave it at whatever last-second response you had in mind as I am not going to continue this argument anymore. It's nothing toxic but it is boring me that it's slowed down by constant misreadings and corrections.