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What's bad about the anime?

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Kamex

Team Rocket's rockin
So what do you not like about the Pokemon anime? I'm NOT talking about the dub specifically, I'm talking in general. What about the Pokemon anime would you like changed, or taken out, or do you wish never existed? Not necessarily anything very specific, though, unless it was really important to you. I don't remember a thread like this, and I thought it'd be an interesting question.

I don't like some of the repetitiveness of episode plots. I also don't like the immaturity of the show (although that's not really a problem, because that wasn't a big deal to me when I was ten and first watching the show).
 
Blackjack Gabbiani

Blackjack Gabbiani

Clearly we're great!
The repetition. How many times can we see the same filler only slightly repackaged?
 
J

Judai Yuki

Banned
Hmm the fact that Pikachu beats a Dragonite then goes and loses to crap stuff.
 
O

Orion-Sama

8
I don't like the lack of plot and how they've neglected the games universe lately. Good-bye Mt. Pyre, Seafloor Cavern, Shoal Cave. We hardly knew ye, if at all...

Plus, how they rush actual climax (YHALLOTHAR Hoenn League, Kyogre/Groudon plot? How are you doing in "rushed land?") instead of having more focus in it. But no... fillers matter. :rolleyes:

And the lack of Fan Service since Johto. Though that's looking up at long last. :D
 
H

Heracross

Custom User Title
Needs more culture and comedic violence, two of the things I really enjoyed about the show in its earlier years. It feels too bland without them.

Some unique scenery would be nice too. The never-ending forests of woe and dull, drab towns aren't cutting it.

Not enough continuity.
 
G

GreenApple

Cherish the Day
I've always found the Team Rocket motto, and their final blast off really annoying. That little section could use something new. Other than that, I also agree with the fact that it needs a better plot, perhaps just a little more character development. Otherwise, it seems like the show is going nowhere besides the traveling.
 
I

intergalactic platypus

Only rescues maidens
A few things could be better

1. Continuity. The continuity in the storyline is quite horrible, and often what could be really cool plots are never mentioned again or really contradicted. And old characters never come back when they could have a great chance to bring back familiar faces. The contests stand in most guilt of this

2. Corny jokes. God the jokes on this show are bad sometimes. They hit the mark at times, but often they flat out suck. "Team Rocket doesn't deserve to be kissed, they deserve to be dissed"....thats just not funny in any way shape or form. James running around in a Moltres costume screaming that hes flaming on the other hand is hilarious. They need to get more into the good humor and out of the bad

3. The bland rosy kidness of the series. When things on the main series are almost always tinted with happiness, it becomes frustrating. Sometimes the show seems cardboard cause even its dark side is pretty sunny. I can think of very very few episodes that weren't rose tinted. Its ok to make it pleasant for the kids, but not to the point where it gags us
 
A

AdvanceX

Glacier Trainer
I kinda wish the animation was upped a little bit more, and the bit more serious episodes popped up somewhat more. I would also like more weird and funny episodes also.
 
J

Jesse GS the II

I was frozen today!
It bugs me that the anime has lost that unique air that set it apart from other shows. The early days were really hectic and effervescent, with lots of exaggeration while still maintaining an underlying sense of control. Now it feels more like any other adventure show.

I agree with Heracross about the lack of culture. It's a Japanese show, for crying out loud - what happened to all the kimonos and summer festivals and tea ceremonies and kabuki clappers and all that fun stuff that added to the show's individuality in America?

Geez, how the hell do you work these new spoiler tags?!...ah, what the hell.

And more recently, I'm pretty disappointed that we still haven't seen so much as one character from the first year make a reappearance in the Battle Frontier saga. Kanto was the region with the most interesting one-shot characters, and I was hoping we'd see some of them again and find out what they've been up to. What, did everyone move away from Kanto in the eight years since Satoshi was there last?
 
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Rizardon

Boulder Trainer
The fact that Ash always promises to people he met that he,ll
fight them again someday and that they,ll both be stronger when they meet again. (Think about trainers and gymleaders he promises to battle again.)
But Ash never sees them again anyway!
 
G

Gravy

Contaminated KFC
What's bad about the animé you say? Well, a whole heap of stuff, lemme tell ya.
-Severe lack of Dunsparce
-Severe usage of Munchlax
-The fact that Haruka has become somewhat boring as of late
-Trainers using legendary pokémon
-The fact there's always something to compalin abo...

God dammit, enough negativity. I need to save that up for complaining about recent events. I'm going to take a bold, original twist here and list good things about the animé! Don't try and stop me. I'm a loose cannon ready to blow!

-Superb music and updated tunes from the games!
-Often questionable, yet oddly hillarious content!
-Team Rocket + Wobbuffet!
-Harley!
-The fact that I get to watch my favourite video game characters duke it out in front of flashy backgrounds and still frames!
-Jailbait!
-The fact that we get a really decent episode after a endless string of awful ones!
-In-game characters that are essentially drones are fleshed out on occassion. Just look at Masato! And even Brock!
-They can't put Dunsparce off forever!
-The one-shot filler characters that are FAR more interesting than the main group only get one episode, so they can never be dragged out to the point of redundancy!
 
A

ash5550

Spartan G-26
Two words: Uber Squirtle.

Lets see, how long did it take May's Squirtle to learn ice beam? ONE episode? Tell, me whats wrong with that sentence. It even took ASH, the main character of the show, longer to get his Snorunt to learn ice beam. Second off, a Squirtle CANNOT under ANY circumstances can beat a Scizor, unless it was an insane matchup, like a level 5 Scizor against a Level 90 Squirtle. What did she do? Inject the thing with steriods?

May tried to be nice to that girl. You know, the one with the Scizor? Oh yes, its so nice to kick someones *** in battle, but humiliate them with a first stage Pokemon.

Third, where is Munchlax getting all these attacks? I mean, I understand with metronome, but you don't see Togepi use the attack and instantly knowing solarbeam, or focus punch.

I'll be back, I have to go find more crap on May, so I can rant about her more... *runs off*
 
S

S_P

Soul Trainer
The repetitiveness can be annoying but I guess what I don't like is re-showcasing of pokemon.

There are filler episodes with a specific showcasing of a pokemon. I find it annoying if there's ANOTHER episode with the SAME pokemon being showcased.

Of course it's nearly impossible to have equal airtime on the pokemon, and some have to have more spotlight and others shafted, but on pokemon that the main characters don't have, it seems biased to have re-showcasing when some pokemon haven't even been seen as much.

Ideal overall showcasing would be like dude, we saw that pokemon already showcased, we've seen it win a battle, we've seen in lose a battle, and we already know it's classified as Legendary/whatever it is (this example leads to Windie. This can be an exception because it managed to be shown several different ways. However, another airing of it would probably cause a repetition.)

Oh and it's probably preferrable to not have a showcase of pokemon power from team rocket blastoffs. That's not really showing power, as apparently pokemon of any type of experience can launch them.

Team Rocket is alright, but they should have different ways to present them. Actually most non-typical Team Rocket circumstances have actually been interesting to watch. Or, present a different way to get a solution, or actually have them win a bag of food or something if the pokemon really aren't supposed to be stolen that badly.

Oh right they need power balance too.

And personally I never like Satoshi's tournament losses since they all felt like all the conditions it was possible for him to win (or that there was imbalance, or too much one hit KO, or too much back and forth, or something else). It either felt like the condition of losing was conditional, disadvantageous, bias, or promotion. Perhaps I don't like to watch over 150 episodes and go through many pointless fillers to see Satoshi end up losing anyways.

Satoshi had great wins that were exciting to watch. The losses don't have the same feeling (though that merely could be win/loss differences), but all the losses don't seem convincing. Credit to the other trainer, but at best it looked like the opponent had a 50% chance to win. Actually Satoshi wasn't really even in losing conditions.
 
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