Homage, I’d venture.

Its the internet, its wireless!

The elders of the internet?

The Elders.....of the internet?

Looking good!

I desperately need to know which pokemon they think is a digimon.

At least it is to someone out there. Too many people want to pretend they are bookers and know whats best for everyone.

Back in Flairs era everyone shot from the hip and followed a few bullet points if that for their promos. Improvising was part of the job. It made everyone better and more belivable.

Have you been worked into a shoot kid?

Hey their childhoods were rui-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sorry lost interest on my sarcastic post.

I will now use this site whenever I play. Thank you. Plus I’ll have something in my clipboard to paste into chat that “RANDOM.WATCH HAS CHOSEN *CHARACTER* THIS MATCH!

he makes them drowzee!

I’ll see myself out.

Houston, We have a problem.

If you are going to be pedantic, be properly pedantic:

Keep in mind the show isnt designed to be watched as a serial. It is a repeating cycle over and over with each season being a new start. The target audience doesn’t watch the show regularly for more than a couple years, and every year new kids keep watching so they have a different perspective than we do as adults

From season to season i agree with you. But within the season he typically uses the knowledge and abilities (personal and as a trainer) he learned through the season as it progresses.

Once the kids are noticing and becoming bored of recurrent themes, they are probably outgrowing that medium as a educational/moral tool anyway. These shows are designed for kids 6-10ish. That is being generous.

I don’t see the show as teaching accepting perpetual failure at all, it shows there is validity in learning…

Exactly. Most kids that I talk to when I run pokemon events at work watch maybe a season or two before moving on from the cartoon. (I use cartoon because thats what they all call it, pedantics be damned) some grew up with it with their parents sharing the classic original series, others just jumped on what is on…

Poor writing in many of the arcs aside, I feel that your examples actually reinforce the idea of teaching kids that losing happens, and it isn’t always fair, but we keep trying. Don’t let the BS get to you or stop you from working toward your goals/dreams.

I understand we all want ash to win, but the anime world is not…

Pretty much, that’s the message they seem to want to teach kids. Don’t give up, just keep pushing no matter how many times you fail.

Too often kids are being taught in society “Winning is the only thing that matters.” which is a very toxic message to send to most children.

Ash IS a very shallow character, again that feels intentional so he can be more relatable to children. They can project themselves into the character. Everyone around him has much more personality than he does. Literally his entire existence is “Become A Pokemon Master”. Sure he is friends with his pokemon, but he has…