What are your unpopular opinions about the anime?

[Remix2]

This is gonna be a hot take but whoever is about to cry about “taking shots at XY” is just gonna have to cry.

Stop gaslighting people when they claim that XY tried to be a failed Shoenn or “angsty” because what do you call Ash falling into the pavement and an active volcano? They did this scene twice to make him “heroic”.

And before people say “it’s just the show showing he loves his Pokémon so much”, absolutely not and the anime has proven Ash knows when to return his Pokémon to their balls ala the episode where they were all about to freeze in OS. Why not return Pikachu or at the very least Talonflame?

Funny how people have a problem with ash risking his life for a Pokémon In xy when he does it in every other series and no one have a problem with it.

 

[RafaSceptile]

Funny how people have a problem with ash risking his life for a Pokémon In xy when he does it in every other series and no one have a problem with it.

This is mainly due to the nature of how XY tries to portrait Ash as a Hero more than any other series.

 

[masdog]

XY is a little over the top when it comes to Ash risking his life for Pokémon.

 

[Pokegirl Fan~]

Lillie is best girl and some of the best episodes of the anime are the ones that focus on her.

 

[mehmeh1]

Tbh I think the claims about XY having stiff character animation are overblown, especially since it's the series that really went all out with the poses when commanding attacks and those kind of things

 

[SunGodNika1997]

I really like Serena, and don't dislike AmourShipping, but I think her crush on Ash really overshadows her otherwise great character arc. Kind of wish it was more implicit than explicit.

 

[Trey pokes]

Sometimes implied things can be better than actually showing the product. It gives us something to think about.

 

[SunGodNika1997]

Sometimes implied things can be better than actually showing the product. It gives us something to think about.

Explicit romance is just really distracting unless it's the main focus of the story, which it obviously isn't in Pokemon.

 

[sutellakiara]

Throughout two whole regions, May and Max travel with Ash. Somehow, though, May only catches a single Pokémon in a traditional battle. All the rest of her Pokémon chose her, were given by professors, or met her in other weird circumstances. Wurmple, a little red goon of a bug Pokémon , is her only traditional catch. For someone who traveled so far and encountered so many creatures, it's absurd that Wurmple is the only one she caught. It's especially bizarre since she caught him so early in her journey. For a pokemon trainer like her, she should have caught at least a few more Pokémon out in the wild.

I genuinely cannot tell if this person's posts are brand new post each time or if they are literal re-posts.
They're all so samey and blur so hard I simply cannot distinguish them.

 

[masdog]

I genuinely cannot tell if this person's post are brand new post each time or if they are literal re-posts.
They're all so samey and blur so hard I simply cannot distinguish them.

We should run them through a GPT3 detector to see if they’re being generated by AI…

 

[RafaSceptile]

Impossible challenge part 6: Drink a beer every time Bendicion talks negatively about May

 

[SunGodNika1997]

Impossible challenge part 6: Drink a beer every time Bendicion talks negatively about May

Dude perpetually lives in the First Great Shipping War of the 2003-2007 era.

 

[mehmeh1]

@insertscott'scurrent account, ya should pick up Bendicion on your way back to 2002

 

[SerGoldenhandtheJust]

Tbh I think the claims about XY having stiff character animation are overblown, especially since it's the series that really went all out with the poses when commanding attacks and those kind of things

I mean I don't think anyone thinks they had stiff character animation during battles, for battles they went all out
It is in non-battle situations where the animation just feels janky at times and not as fluid

 

[GohMaster!]

I mean I don't think anyone thinks they had stiff character animation during battles, for battles they went all out
It is in non-battle situations where the animation just feels janky at times and not as fluid

Which doesn't help the argument against saying XY was just battle machine Ash.

 

[Spider-Phoenix]

I agreed, it just makes the scene unintentionally funny of how dumb those situations are by acting heroic instead of using the Poke Balls

In retrospect, that makes the "Goh captures Suicune" episode be the only instance where someone actually used the brain to make the best call.

There's also Ash on movie 20 but that's a different continuity

 

[Gingertail24]

In retrospect, that makes the "Goh captures Suicune" episode be the only instance where someone actually used the brain to make the best call.

There's also Ash on movie 20 but that's a different continuity

Right? Like regardless of how I feel with the suicune capture. I was thinking "freaking finally" when someone used their PokeBall to keep their Mon safe, y'know, one of the intended purposes of a PokeBall

Heck the same with absol. Some got mad at that. But let's be honest, we all would of used a PokeBall instead of throwing ourselves into boiling steam which wouldnt even save absol anyways lol

Like at least someone has self preservation lol

But I think Ash influence him in this aspect . Like shielding drizzle instead of using a PokeBall lol

 

[mehmeh1]

I mean I don't think anyone thinks they had stiff character animation during battles, for battles they went all out
It is in non-battle situations where the animation just feels janky at times and not as fluid

admittedly, yeah fully non-battle moments aren't as fluid, but I'd still put them above most non-battle scenes from BW and before, partially due to the style being less blocky (or JN for that matter even if that one isn't blocky either). Plus it does have quite a few good ones:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Also this reminded me how hype XYZ ep 1 was back on the day......and also that I wish we had sakugabooru embeds here

 

[Morax]

admittedly, yeah fully non-battle moments aren't as fluid, but I'd still put them above most non-battle scenes from BW and before, partially due to the style being less blocky (or JN for that matter even if that one isn't blocky either). Plus it does have quite a few good ones:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Also this reminded me how hype XYZ ep 1 was back on the day......and also that I wish we had sakugabooru embeds here

I mean you’re on PAD.

 

[Gingertail24]

The whole betrayal alain storyline didn't work for me because at the end of the day, the character had no reaction to it. Like why set up an arc like that, if no one is really gonna care