KingMinun
Dawn/Sinnoh Fan!
I’ll admit, I hated Iris when BW was airing, but this was at a time when I struggled to watch the anime because of the quality of the show, and her catchphrase annoyed the hell out of me.
However once we moved onto XY, I eventually did an anime run through from beginning to then present and watched all of BW, I found Iris’ character grew on me a bit. I no longer hated her and found her the most interesting out of the BW trio, she had the most story out of all 3, Ash included. However it felt at times things were just handed to her and didn’t feel earned. She had a disobedient Excadrill who just suddenly won a tournament, then she gets a disobedient Dragonite that doesn’t listen and ends up performing well in a competition. It got a bit repetitive and then all of a sudden she’s got this potential to become the next dragon gym leader which just felt like it came from nowhere. However as stated, she still felt the most developed and is no where near the worst character.
In fact, it surprises me to this day that Iris gets more hate than Cilan. That character irrated me more so than Iris ever did. How he was an expert at everything, everything he was a connoisseur of, that got annoying, very very quickly. And then his evaluating time was also annoying, he had next to no development in terms of character or towards his goal. He came in as an A class connoisseur and left as one, he always had one over on his rivals and they were no match for him. He goes down for me as one of the worst characters the show has produced personally.
However once we moved onto XY, I eventually did an anime run through from beginning to then present and watched all of BW, I found Iris’ character grew on me a bit. I no longer hated her and found her the most interesting out of the BW trio, she had the most story out of all 3, Ash included. However it felt at times things were just handed to her and didn’t feel earned. She had a disobedient Excadrill who just suddenly won a tournament, then she gets a disobedient Dragonite that doesn’t listen and ends up performing well in a competition. It got a bit repetitive and then all of a sudden she’s got this potential to become the next dragon gym leader which just felt like it came from nowhere. However as stated, she still felt the most developed and is no where near the worst character.
In fact, it surprises me to this day that Iris gets more hate than Cilan. That character irrated me more so than Iris ever did. How he was an expert at everything, everything he was a connoisseur of, that got annoying, very very quickly. And then his evaluating time was also annoying, he had next to no development in terms of character or towards his goal. He came in as an A class connoisseur and left as one, he always had one over on his rivals and they were no match for him. He goes down for me as one of the worst characters the show has produced personally.