Personally, I say yes. But a few things have to happen first. While it'd be ideal if they got rid of Ash all together, it's obvious that won't happen, so here's a list of the five things, imo, that the anime should do to become watchable once again.
#5
Let's get rid of Brock. His character is not very funny. Maybe if he could be a bit more perverted, the character would work, but because it's more of a kid's show, that can't happen. In my eyes, brock was supposed to be the cliche "pervert" character, but they then decided to aim the anime towards a younger audience, and brock became more of a hopeless romantic. Also, breeder isn't a significant enough class to be a full blown character.
He keeps saying that he will be a breeder, but he NEVER DOES IT
#4
The new character classes should be contest star, and either two trainers or a trainer (Ash) and a pokeathlete. And the girl character should not be the contest star. In DP, Dawn pretty much sucks at battling and does well at contest. It's almost as if they're conveying the message that girls can't be strong or tough, but it's fine if they get all dressed up and put on a show. The males who do contests are often effeminate as well.
Isn't that prejudice against women, oh wait, they aren't women yet, so it's plausible, right? RIGHT?
#3
Ash can't be as cool as he has been in the past. It seems like the past couple gens Ash steps into the new region and automatically is better than those around him. It's really annoying, especially when it comes to the female character. Female character fails at life, Ash helps, she gets better. I understand Ash has experience, and the female character is usually a new trainer, but the message "A woman is nothing without man" is still conveyed, or at least to me it is. When Ash arrives on the scene, let the female character already have her poke, and let her battle with Ash and beat him. It'd be nice if he could be shown some humility for once.
Big Damn Heroes to the rescue!
#2
More spectacle! The battles have gotten sooooooo boring. It's command, attack, command, attack, etc. etc. over. I understand that's how the game works, but it doesn't captivate your attention in a show. It's okay to have commands, but let the pokes move freely a bit! Also, the battles need to be bigger! And I don't mean explosions, there's too many of those. I mean, let the pokes jump high, hit eachother into the ground, and create a crater from the impact! Make them seem at least dangerous. Because right now, the characters say wild pokemon are dengerous, when really, all it'll do is bite you or peck at your head. That's what normal animals do. If you've seen Soul Eater, that's kind of what I'm talking about, Not the blood, just the awesome acrobatic style of fighting.
on the "let the pokes jump high, hit eachother into the ground, and create a crater from the impact!" part, I can only say THAT THIS IS NOT DRAGONBALL Z!!!!
Anyway, the battles do need to be more serious, like make them have body parts break, or bleed, make it more REALISTIC, but then again, it was actually 4Kids who made it that way, just like everything else in the Pokemon anime was caused by 4Kids
#1!
Make it more story driven! Right now, every episode is just Ash and co. helping some random stranger out. Focus more on action and less on doing good deeds for people you don't even know. And frankly, it's quite annoying having to meet two new characters every. single. episode. This means less team rocket too, they're entertaining on occasion. But now, every plan of theirs is the same, and they appear every episode. More tense, climactic, story driven episodes will help this show a lot. Multi episode quests, you know what I mean.
This is the biggest problem in the anime currently, but look at Naruto's fillers, they tend to be multi episode quests, and are more tense, climatic, and story driven (well.... almost.....). The biggest part of this problem is that they are all actually the same episode, just in a diffrent part of the region between two certain towns, with diffrent characters of the day, and a diffrent Pokemon, and a few minor edits here and there, but once in a while, they actually have a decent episode that goes pretty fine until Ash/Team Rocket does something to screw it over (eg. "Pikachu, use Thunderbolt..... ON YOURSELF!")
MORE MATURE, Im tired of this constant appeal 2 the new yunger generation UGH, we need blood, cussin, skin, darker bad ass characters, etc
This is Pokemon, it's for kids, this is not Naruto Shippuden, or Bleach, or Death Note, or one of those Hentai animes, but I do agree with the blood and badass characters, we need SOMETHING serious, a few serious scenes, maybe even having a Pokemon killed off, AND I KNOW JUST WHICH ONE *looks at Pikachu and smirks evilly*
Speaking of 4Kids, it was actually them who manipulated the Japanese to do this to the Pokemon anime back in Gen 1, right after Butterfree as a matter of fact......
I doubt that it would. If they didn't redeemed themselves on the 4th gen, it won't happen in the 5th. But, hey. Maybe the Female Protagonist will be a hot-head and be the opposite of Ash's female companion so far and actually be a competition, a threat and also a main character. There's one thing I'd want them to improve. Don't re-use the storyline! What happened in the first season, can't be the storyline for the 4th!
Or how about White being a recuring Rival Character with Misty or May traveling with Ash (not Dawn, I hope they dump her)
Actually, I agree AND disagree.
1.) Yes, but they already screwed Gary up. So I think they should bring in Silver for a change. He should have had his debut LONG ago but for some reason they did Johto weird and he never appeared. Or maybe even Masky!
Yeah, they royally screwed Johto up, actually that was when the anime started to turn into the monstrocity we know today, the start of Hoenn being the complete transformation into what is now the Pokemon anime, what we would call a "seasonal decay", the biggest one in anime history to be exact
Of course they could have wrote Ash off and had Gold as the main character, a fresh start, but no, they had to make Ash lose the Indigo League, and then screwed it over with Orange Islands
2.) Pikachu doesn't need to evolve. He needs to DIE.
LOL true in the purest of sense.......
3.) I don't believe it has to be THAT wild. Now it would be awesome if it was, I'll say that, but I want it to be more like... Well, the manga portrays it. And now, I'm not a huge fan of the manga, I hate what they did to Silver, but I love it for it's violence and threats and stuff. I want to see Arbok get slashed in half, Pokemon bodies rot away, I even liked how the Masked Man actually threatened to end the lives of two children. THAT is what I want to see in Pokemon. More seriousness. Definitely darker. More evil.
LOL, the anime SHOULD be more like the Pokemon Special Manga, no wait, Pokemon Special SHOULD have been the anime, even Tajiri himself comments: "This is the world I was trying to convey", but then 4Kids would have screwed it over, and manipulated Japan for it to be that way there too........
ya now i kinda liked the Sinnoh episodes, because they were more funnier. but you can't beat the first season in humour.
Actually, you can't beat the first season in anything, especially when it was darker and serious in the very first episodes, well, until Butterfree, or at least the Indigo League, that's when the biggest filler arc in Anime history, well, second to Naruto, came into being
