Could not care less.

Maybe we'll get lucky and Ash will finally die.

I don't want Ash to leave just yet, but soon.

Not until after another Battle Frontier arc, though. Because I'd very much like to have Dahlia and Brock in the same room.

I hear Ash will be gone after this season.

>>9665
Can't we just have a season with those two and drop Ash?

>>9667
THE NEW MAIN CHARACTERS ARE BROCK, DAHLIA, AND SASHAY.

TEAM ROCKET IS REPLACED BY MIROR B., TRUDLY, AND FOLLY.

DANCE-OFF SEASON IS GO.

>>9670

>>9670

>Brock harem.

God knows the guy deserves one.

>>9653
Someone working to make the anime updated their blog saying that the new female lead from Black and White isn't going to be following Ash around this next season. That as far as he can tell, the new female lead is actually an original character this time.

>>9681
...
FUCK.

Personally I really wouldn't mind if they got rid of Ash. The kid is almost completely immune to development.

>>9688
He developed the surprisingly useful counter shield.

>>9688
Eh... I'm not so sure Ash is the problem with the show's lack of development.

I still can't get over the fact that people over the age of 9 still watch the anime. Did it actually get good somewhere between Johto and now?

>>9708
I dunno. I totally got into the Ash vs Paul fight on Sunday though. And I could even follow along. I was all "Aw yeah, Ash's Pikachu activated Static!" And then "Oh Shit, Static activated Guts and that's exactly what Paul was going for!"

>>9708
I watch it on and off. I didn't pay much attention to the Advanced episodes though. But the Sinnoh episodes are mostly alright except for the fact that the writers took a whole damn year between Ash's 7th and 8th badges...

>>9708
I've recently started rewatching it starting from johto, where I left off originally. Pokemon as a show is pretty bad compared to other anime, but I realized that it has its merits too. It fleshes out the pokemon world way more than the games can by themselves. Most notably, it establishes how attacks might look if they were performed in real time, as well as how the pokemon would sound in my imagination (voice acting > electronic buzzing).

This fleshing out is probably why my list of all-time favorite pokemon are mostly gen 1, with nothing from gens 3 and 4. In watching the anime again, the hope is that I can grow to like the new pokemon in the same way I did with the old.

Honestly I want to see both Male and Female Protagonists have their own show for once. Keep the other characters not involved in Black and White out for half a season and let them have their own adventure without being trapped in Ash's perpetual failure.