*Orion* said:
Besides that... what Gravyand Heracross said.
Agreed, but I think Shin Ura Yuuki should be added to that list as well. He's got some good ideas.
Shin Ura Yuuki said:
To be honest, I'd like the animators to increase their budget so Pokemon's battles can at least look as good as other shows animated by Toei or Pierrot. >.>;
I also agree with Dogasu though...explain what the GS Ball is, why Brock doesn't like hearing Ivy's name, what happened to Ash's past Pokemon, etc....
You can not tell me that something like Bleach-styled battles wouldn't kick serious a
ss. OK, maybe that would be a bit much for what we can expect of these animators, but you know, even with the use of stock footage, Toei managed to pull off fights in Digimon pretty damn nicely. Something along those lines would be nice. Well, in any case, they should just have something better than what we have a majority of the time ([spoil]Juptor's recent battle against Tropius[/spoil] was great, but that episode was done by one of the better animation directors, and those don't come up as often as they should).
Anyway, they should have a lot less fillers. The Battle Frontier's a good start, but I can guarantee anything that it's only like that because they're just now picking up the pace in order to complete the story in time for Diamond/Pearl's release. When they start adapting those games, it's likely gonna be the same-old same-old once again. I'm aware they have to stretch an arc over the course of years while waiting for the next game release, so that means they'd have to make a lot of episodes. But honestly, rather than making crap like "Which Way the Wind Blows", or featuring new Pokemon in a repetitive and dull plot (giving new Pokemon their own feature episode, by the way, being one solution to the "stretch arc out until next game's release" problem), why not do something more productive like featuring a new Pokemon in an episode that has good character development for instance? Or focus more of these episodes on extending an arc or league instead of making them as friggin rushed and anti-climactic as they are.
Speaking of my earlier comment of devoting more episodes to character development, I agree on what Gravy said about a wider variety of Pokemon being used. If they'd have Satoshi and Haruka switch at least one slot on their teams from time to time (Haruka, thus far, has yet to fill up her 6th slot, and Satoshi's 6th slot is usually blank until the last minute of a saga, Jouto being an exception in which he kept Fushigidane until not long before Gomazou came around), they'd have an even wider cast of character to use these fillers to devote development to. All things considered, the Pokemon get their fair share of development too, not just the humans. This has especially been apparent in AG.
And if they ever bring back the Housou specials (guess they'd be Sunday specials, now), for the love of god, do not waste their potential like you did. I mean, you have a chance to showcase side characters, and while some of it's good (like seeing Kasumi properly get out of her role as a main character and fit more into her place at the gym, Takeshi leaving his Pokemon behind, or Silver, who leaves some speculation on Satoshi's father. In any case, he seems like a character too important to be a mere oneshot, since he seems to be familiar with Masara Town), others were kind of a waste. Seeing Nanako trying to get a Lizardon to fly, for instance. Also, they should've had a wider variety of characters featured. Though Kasumi's specials were important, it is kind of a shame that pretty much half of them are all devoted towards her (and of her older sisters, Sakura's the only one who keeps showing up -_-.... give me Ayame, dammit). And for both specials featuring Orchid's lab, Fushigidane was the one bigshot out of all Satoshi's other reserves, as if the guy doesn't get enough limelight. And what about Hadzuki? Show us his journey in Kantou, and give some of us the impression that he's more than some Ruby/Sapphire promoter. Or Kenji, of whom we know nothing about other than that he's always admired Professor Orchid, and is supposedly derived from the Orange Islands. Kenta-tachi could've made a nice reappearance as well. And AG only brought us even more characters worth featuring, like Masamune, and Haruka's rivals, both her current ones and former ones.