nekojyara
Member
OS:
- Retcons on TR story between Kanto and Johto
- Indigo League battles
- Gary's rivalry in Johto, he is already set up as strong but ended up not showing much
- Casey not appearing in League
- The relative unprogressiveness of cast in Kanto
AG:
- Some of May's Contest win in Hoenn is too plot armor
- May not catching Swablu
- Glalie having little screentime
- The useless Togetic 2-parter and its release
- Ash's Charizard losing to Dusclops after winning against Articuno IN THE SAME SERIES AND SAME RUN
- Ash vs Tyson and Morrison, the former is too rushed while the latter suffers from unreasonable Morrison upset
- Pikachu losing to Electivire and Ash's Pokedex failed to recognize it (despite successfully scanned other Gen 4 Pokemon). Should use other member instead
DP:
- Pikachu tied with Elekid and losing to Roark. In the former, Pikachu should the one who handles Chimchar while Aipom against Elekid, while the latter should not have Pikachu being used at all
- The very existence of Kenny and how he was written
- Barry appearing very late
- Grotle/Torterra jobbing in the end
- Dawn's rival in general being either written badly or lacking screentime
- Tobias
- Reason for Dawn not joining Ash and Brock back to Kanto is too cheap
- The cast goodbye feels too fast...
BW:
- Ash soft reset and general disrespect for his preceding run, you must already know it all so I won't mention it again here
- Iris lacking more serious run (challenging Gyms, for example) and extra number of development arcs and focus for her, despite her delicate goal
- Team Plasma arc's subpar plot
- Trip
- Anime Alder being creep
- The unbalanced BW team (Boldore, Unfezant, Leavanny, and Palpitoad receiving the end of the stick)
- Purpose of Charizard's return. Even worse since logically he should keep the growth he has in OS-DP...but no.
- Decolora Islands' existence
- The rushed parting between cast
XY:
- OLM's bold move to include plot delivery and tropes only commonly found on older audience-targeted Japanese media, which is not translated for good in the dub and a hit-or-miss for the audience (cue Serena and Tripokalon being controversially received and misunderstood by mostly non-Eastern fans)
- XY part being too laidback while XYZ part being too rushed
- Goomy's arc and its disappointing return
- Kalos League in its entirety, not including battles between preliminary to semifinals which would be useful for Ash's team focus, and Ash's substandard performance against Sawyer and Alain
- The penultimate episode
- Evil Malamar plot that goes to nowhere
- XYZ still having fillers
- Sawyer's lack of backstory
- Clemont lacking focus between Gym Battle and Team Flare incident
- Ash vs Viola, he shouldn't use Pikachu because the loss is jarring
- The Trick Room breaking in Laverre Gym battle, honestly the stupidest asspull in entire Anipoke
SM:
- Hau deserved better and should appear earlier
- SM064 where Ash cosplayed as Passimian is offensive and shouldn't wear that costume or doing that. At all
- Shaymin should battle
- The Ultra Necrozma subplot is too weirdly structured and rushed, despite excellent buildup and heartwarming ending
- Ash vs Hapu should be 2v2 and NOT using pikachu
- Stealth Rock in Ash vs Olivia. It makes the battle less fluid and interesting
- Faba, after all the mess he did (which is very evil and deserved prison), got redeemed? ****.
- Pikachu's eyes drawn too close together
JN:
- Decision to base this series in Kanto and not Galar
- Having Ash's team developed during battles, and almost never having moments outside that, making them feels like just a battle drone (at least until this year)
- Goh's easy catching method. Should use another stronger balls or weaken them bit more, especially for fully evolved strong species
- PWC being rushed in Normal and Great Class
- Iris did dirty by having her as Champion lost on lower ranks to two newly caught/trained Pokemon
- Gengar and Sirfetch'd's poor battle record
- Kiawe acting a bit strange towards Goh...idk?
- The Grookey capture episode, especially where Goh's parents turned into Rillaboom (original version).
- Grookey
- Cinderace and Inteleon evolving too fast and increasingly lost screentime
- Darkest Day arc feels too fast and misplaced
- Mewtwo episode being pointless
- Prioritizing filler/random episodes over plot ones
- Team Rocket having minimum role and screentime
- Overall weird powerscaling between Ash and Goh's Pokemon
- The entire rivalry of Ash and Bea; no reason for him to act cocky and then depressed again at this point, and the resolve is very short
- Some important battles feels too plain
- Retcons on TR story between Kanto and Johto
- Indigo League battles
- Gary's rivalry in Johto, he is already set up as strong but ended up not showing much
- Casey not appearing in League
- The relative unprogressiveness of cast in Kanto
AG:
- Some of May's Contest win in Hoenn is too plot armor
- May not catching Swablu
- Glalie having little screentime
- The useless Togetic 2-parter and its release
- Ash's Charizard losing to Dusclops after winning against Articuno IN THE SAME SERIES AND SAME RUN
- Ash vs Tyson and Morrison, the former is too rushed while the latter suffers from unreasonable Morrison upset
- Pikachu losing to Electivire and Ash's Pokedex failed to recognize it (despite successfully scanned other Gen 4 Pokemon). Should use other member instead
DP:
- Pikachu tied with Elekid and losing to Roark. In the former, Pikachu should the one who handles Chimchar while Aipom against Elekid, while the latter should not have Pikachu being used at all
- The very existence of Kenny and how he was written
- Barry appearing very late
- Grotle/Torterra jobbing in the end
- Dawn's rival in general being either written badly or lacking screentime
- Tobias
- Reason for Dawn not joining Ash and Brock back to Kanto is too cheap
- The cast goodbye feels too fast...
BW:
- Ash soft reset and general disrespect for his preceding run, you must already know it all so I won't mention it again here
- Iris lacking more serious run (challenging Gyms, for example) and extra number of development arcs and focus for her, despite her delicate goal
- Team Plasma arc's subpar plot
- Trip
- Anime Alder being creep
- The unbalanced BW team (Boldore, Unfezant, Leavanny, and Palpitoad receiving the end of the stick)
- Purpose of Charizard's return. Even worse since logically he should keep the growth he has in OS-DP...but no.
- Decolora Islands' existence
- The rushed parting between cast
XY:
- OLM's bold move to include plot delivery and tropes only commonly found on older audience-targeted Japanese media, which is not translated for good in the dub and a hit-or-miss for the audience (cue Serena and Tripokalon being controversially received and misunderstood by mostly non-Eastern fans)
- XY part being too laidback while XYZ part being too rushed
- Goomy's arc and its disappointing return
- Kalos League in its entirety, not including battles between preliminary to semifinals which would be useful for Ash's team focus, and Ash's substandard performance against Sawyer and Alain
- The penultimate episode
- Evil Malamar plot that goes to nowhere
- XYZ still having fillers
- Sawyer's lack of backstory
- Clemont lacking focus between Gym Battle and Team Flare incident
- Ash vs Viola, he shouldn't use Pikachu because the loss is jarring
- The Trick Room breaking in Laverre Gym battle, honestly the stupidest asspull in entire Anipoke
SM:
- Hau deserved better and should appear earlier
- SM064 where Ash cosplayed as Passimian is offensive and shouldn't wear that costume or doing that. At all
- Shaymin should battle
- The Ultra Necrozma subplot is too weirdly structured and rushed, despite excellent buildup and heartwarming ending
- Ash vs Hapu should be 2v2 and NOT using pikachu
- Stealth Rock in Ash vs Olivia. It makes the battle less fluid and interesting
- Faba, after all the mess he did (which is very evil and deserved prison), got redeemed? ****.
- Pikachu's eyes drawn too close together
JN:
- Decision to base this series in Kanto and not Galar
- Having Ash's team developed during battles, and almost never having moments outside that, making them feels like just a battle drone (at least until this year)
- Goh's easy catching method. Should use another stronger balls or weaken them bit more, especially for fully evolved strong species
- PWC being rushed in Normal and Great Class
- Iris did dirty by having her as Champion lost on lower ranks to two newly caught/trained Pokemon
- Gengar and Sirfetch'd's poor battle record
- Kiawe acting a bit strange towards Goh...idk?
- The Grookey capture episode, especially where Goh's parents turned into Rillaboom (original version).
- Grookey
- Cinderace and Inteleon evolving too fast and increasingly lost screentime
- Darkest Day arc feels too fast and misplaced
- Mewtwo episode being pointless
- Prioritizing filler/random episodes over plot ones
- Team Rocket having minimum role and screentime
- Overall weird powerscaling between Ash and Goh's Pokemon
- The entire rivalry of Ash and Bea; no reason for him to act cocky and then depressed again at this point, and the resolve is very short
- Some important battles feels too plain