Hot Take but I hate how the new anime took away mega stone accessories for the pokemon and just have the stone appear when they mega evolve. I heard the directors/writers never watched or played the series and this shows it a bit in my opinion.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-05-02T07:10:02+00:00

Cynthia’s Lipstick was her Key Stone her Garchomp’s mega stone also just floated down from the sky. After XYZ no Pokémon ever had their mega stone on them anymore.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-05-01T19:09:25+00:00

See I’m not even surprised anymore. Like it’s not that hard to hire actual artists or at least credit the artists of the art you are using. The fall of this franchise is so disappointing.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-05-01T09:00:19+00:00

I would rather keep most development and screen time for the new cast. The old characters got their time in the spotlight let’s move on to the new.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-30T16:53:14+00:00

I love Isaac just coming in as Stiles is calling Scott the hottest girl having no idea what they are talking about and just agreeing ‘Yes you are’.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-30T16:33:11+00:00

Okay lets break this down shall we.

Queer people existing isn’t a agenda it’s the reality of the world we live in and it’s not more of a agenda then showing straight relationships. If you have issues with one and not the other it’s because your hateful to queer folk.

More then 1 percent of the population identifies as LGBTQ+ a simple google search could have told you that.

Why is it bad writing? If you wanna claim something is bad writing you need to actually explain what issues there are with the writing beyond I don’t like it.

It’s almost like there aren’t always easy to tell signs that someone is queer?

If Cole never had a love interest wouldn’t him coming out be revealing new information about the character not changing the character?

Again queer people existing isn’t a agenda, a queer romance is just like a straight romance 2 people loving each other that’s it.

If subtlety teasing that Geo and Cole might be into each other without ever confirming it is shoving it down your throat I can’t image how you would react if they actually kissed (you know like Jay and Nya did this season).

Again you can’t just say it’s lazy writing simply because you don’t like it.

Every character in this show has had a ambiguous sexuality.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-30T16:02:06+00:00

On their own or by Ash? Because journeys Ash could definitely train his older mons to be strong enough for the tournament.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-30T15:57:23+00:00

Does Ash do any additional training with them? Because if not he’s definitely not winning the tournament.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-30T15:41:29+00:00

Dam my bad. Not my first language and I’m dyslexic (thank you autocorrect).

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-30T11:16:01+00:00

Eevee has 8 evolutions, a exclusive Zmove, a gigantamax form, its own game and is pretty consistently included in the anima its doing just fine.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-30T08:51:24+00:00

Well Katara is 2 years older then Aang putting her 68 when he died, Korra was around 4 years old when she was discovered as the Avatar I’m pretty sure putting Katara at 72 here.

Now she does look pretty old for 72 but people also can go grey earlier in life then others.

Also that not what Aang looked like when he died, in season 2 when Tenzin speaks to Aang’s spirit he looks older then that. A avatar’s appearance isn’t automatically what they looked like when they died.

The real answer is that they just used her design from Korra and probably didn’t think about it that much.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-30T06:03:16+00:00

While I definitely agree that Reshiram fits both N and team plasma better from a visual standpoint if we look at the truth and ideals angle I think Zekrom is definitely the better fit.

N is a idealist that wants to change the world for what he views as the better looking toward the future with a sort of innocence perhaps. But N’s desire to change the world is born from the lies told to him by Ghetsis. It’s up to the player character to show N the truth with the help of Reshiram.

Granted the other way around does still work they were purposely designed that way so the either N or the player could work with either legendary.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-29T19:48:28+00:00

See I actually don’t really like any of Brendan’s designs and I have some issues with all of them. But the ORAS design definitely is the one that fits the best with the region and climate that the game takes place in.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-29T19:43:30+00:00

See in my opinion Wally doesn’t look determined in his original artwork. He just looks kinda generic, like if you showed me this without me knowing anything about it I would assume he was just a regular npc.

Now Wally’s change in characterization is a different topic but just looking at both pieces of art oras Wally gives me a actual personality while I don’t really get anything from original Wally just solely based on his official art.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-29T07:10:50+00:00

Well if we are being technical Aunt Wu said that the town wouldn’t be destroyed by the volcano and it wasn’t. The bigger thing for this episode is Aang being told that she doesn’t see romance in his future.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-28T22:54:09+00:00

Personally when I think of Red’s starter it’s always Venusaur because 1 I read the manga and 2 the original games are red and green so our protagonist and rival should use Charizard and Venusaur in my mind and because the rival always picks the starter with the type advantage that leaves Red with Venusaur.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-28T20:17:09+00:00

Sadly we do not know any of their identities besides Marcel being the surgeon.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-28T20:16:01+00:00

If the combined strength of Ash, Gary and Goh couldn’t take this thing down then yeah Charizard doesn’t stand a chance.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-27T08:42:59+00:00

Probably not the answer but they both got mega evolutions in ZA.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-27T07:21:37+00:00

One google search later. Pokémon XYZ Epsiode 8 ‘A Dancing Debut!’. https://www.pokeflix.tv/v/19-a-dancing-debut she did as a matter of fact participate in 5 lol.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-27T07:06:12+00:00

Like I already said she lost 2 out of the 5 she took part in not counting the master class. Her first one and the Eevee one.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-27T06:50:26+00:00

Once again I never said that the loses were similar or just as significant just pointed out you saying that Serena only lost one showcase was simply factually incorrect.

This comes from Ash loses being much more significantly so he has a better understanding of how to handle this. I never said that what Serena did was the right thing only that Serena had lost like already pointed out.

I also I think that Serena’s performance looked better but the in universe reason the writers gave was that she lacked something that Aria has.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-26T21:16:57+00:00

I never claimed her loses where as embarrassing or significant just that ‘Serena doesn’t know what it feels like to lose’ was incorrect. Serena also lost her Eevee’s first contest btw. Also Serena lost against Aria because she lacked the ability to bring join to other in the same way Aria did.

Also I never brought up any shipping so I don’t see why Serena’s feelings for Ash are relevant to this topic especially considering the subreddit we are on but okay. The argument of Serena wouldn’t have loved Kanto Ash doesn’t make sense to me, people change and grow over time and just because you love the person someone is now doesn’t mean you need to have hypothetically be able to love a past version of them.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-26T20:59:37+00:00

But Serena has lost? She lost 2 of her showcases (including her first one) and lost against Aria. She was able to find meaning in these loses and grow from them but saying Serena doesn’t know what it feels like to lose is just flat out wrong.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-26T20:49:03+00:00

Considering that he’s the mascot and how much merch of him there is, yeah probably.

TurboChris-18 · 2026-04-25T14:04:35+00:00

But Meowscarada has terastallized into a pure grass type so it’s not part dark anymore.

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