>Supposedly to be based on Sword/Shield >Barely traveling to Galar or meeting characters from Galar >Barely meeting Galar region Pokemon >Focusing more to Satoshi and Goh, barely showing any episodes focusing at Koharu What were they thinking!
I still enjoy Pokemon Journeys but it was a huge downgrade comparing to Pokemon Sun/Moon anime. At least it still has great animation at battles and kickass openings. Also the episodes where they meet characters from previous seasons were nice nostalgia touch. And the episodes about Lilly's father were from the best Pokemon anime episodes.
>Supposedly to be based on Sword/Shield No? The title of the anime is just "Pocket Monsters" and not a title referring to the new gen games like previous seasons for a reason.
Brayden Rivera
Journeys isn't about galar. But I still wish they took the time to show off the region's characters and pokemon a bit more. Like, half of the galar characters are probably never gonna show up and most of the pokemon only get cameos...
Grayson Cooper
It's still ultimately about Ash battling Leon
Connor King
Good point. Still a shitty move.
Lucas Gray
Gen 8 sucks, plus the current setup of the anime lets them drop Galar as soon as soon as the tourney is over anyway.
Alexander White
Journeys was supposed to reflect both the Gen 8 games, PoGo and Master's, since Pokemon is no longer focused solely around the mainline games. Also Galar is a bland, souless region while the writers were free to pick and choose the best elements from Pokemon's 20 years of history along with all the games and spinoff media. In theory, it was a good idea that was partially ruined by covid and mostly ruined by incompetence and some bad ideas from the start (like Go and Koharu).
Kevin Williams
Go wasn't inherently a bad idea, a trainer that focuses on catching while Ash does battles. It was just executed extremely badly.
Jackson Murphy
The anime doesn't give a fuck about the games anymore and only loosely pull stuff from them now.
Nicholas Fisher
Pokemon Go isn't Gen 8 it doesn't even have Gen 8 mons yet, it's all the regions.
Jordan Ward
Right. I forgot that Journeys is mostly about pushing Pokemon GO (therefore having a side protagonist named Goh and catching Pokemon without battling them, just like Pokemon GO).
Jace Parker
If anything it cares more about the games now than it did before, since it tries to being all characters inline with their game counterpart (like Iris) where before they just did whatever they wanted.
Thomas Perez
I've been enjoying the new style of the anime, hope they keep it honestly.
Isaiah Russell
>Go wasn't inherently a bad idea, a trainer that focuses on catching while Ash does battles. Yes he was, because the anime has consistently emphasized the point that Pokemon are sentient animals and not unintelligent insects you can catch in the wild and use in cockfights. Go's very existence is dissonant to the anime's narrative that found its way into the mainline games. Add that to Go just being a shallow, easily butthurt and lacking initiative and he's an easily dislikable character. This is because he's written by 50 somethings trying to represent a zoomer, not realizing that zoomers are fucking awful in their personal lives and are not entertaining to watch outside of performance and skits.
Blake Bennett
It cares about PoGo and Masters because those are services that you have to keep dumping money into. It couldn't care less about Galar and Gen 8, and neither does Any Forums
Ryder King
>focusing to >focusing at dumb ESL
Kevin Bailey
Previous anime were also written by middle age men, including the first seasons (till the third movie).
Colton Thomas
>Yes he was, because the anime has consistently emphasized the point that Pokemon are sentient animals and not unintelligent insects you can catch in the wild and use in cockfights. Go's very existence is dissonant to the anime's narrative that found its way into the mainline games. Ash and Go have basically the same amount of total Pokemon, I'm not sure how you can criticize one and not the other. Hell at least Go actively cares for all his Pokemon himself instead of dumping them with someone else to do it for him.
Colton Bailey
I used to defend Pokemon GO. Now I hate it with all my heart and now I have one reason to hate it.
Evan Nelson
Pokemon GO literally revitalized the franchise in pop culture, it doesn't matter if GO isn't Gen 8, it's objectively more relevant than Gen 8 in 2022.
Carter Rogers
>I'm not sure how you can criticize one and not the other. One catches Pokemon and immediately banks them because he needs to check off a box in his Pokedex The other catches a mon and trains it to compete in the regional Pokemon League over the course of a season Yes, they're both exactly the same, you anti-Ashfags are some of the biggest retards in this shit community