XY from what I remember started off okay, but after the Pokemon evolved they barely appeared besides their duties. Any group shots were barely animated because the art style was too detailed.Meh idk, even XY didn't have that much interaction within ash team. The only ones were honestly noviern and hawlucha
Sinnoh as well. Don't remember any notable relationship within ash team even though they are my favorite
Also after a while of ambivalence I'm just gonna say this one:
The Aether family backstory is HORRENDOUS for utilising 'villains' as the pivot for all their trauma. And it's even worse for letting said villains get off the hook for it.
Like the reason for Lillie's trauma was because Faba was messing around with the Ultra Space portal and erased her memories. This alone barely works since it relies on NO ONE, not even Gladion questioning what happened, but then Faba is just let off with a slap on the wrist.
Same deal happened with Mohn. Sure, the Nihilego saved him, but it also basically kept him hostage and intentionally tried to stop him regaining his memories and rejoining his family, even going so far as to try snuff them out when they finally found him. I get Pokemon work on a different mindwave from humans (Rapooh trying to use Thief on Acerola to make her his friend for example) but this thing has basically acted like a horror story mastermind and is the deliberate reason the Aethers have never seen their father for years, you wouldn't think they'd welcome it with open arms.
It's worse because these were series-long storylines they had PLENTY of time and reference to think through. What if Lusamine herself was responsible for the botched experiment Lillie got caught in and chose to erase her memories out of mercy, giving more weight to their feud and adding a tint of her moral ambiguity from the games? (You could even keep Faba's involvement from that point after since he would likely just think he was maintaining her intent.) Or the Nihilego had indeed brought Mohn back but just replicated what it best thought was his family without knowing how or if it could reuinite them (which likely would have been a simpler way about it anyway). Well meaning but misguided actions without malicious hard-to-forgive intent.
To quote some guy I don't remember where they appeared from, they had a million different ways to go about this, why did they pick the worst one???
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