What makes you believe Amourshipping is not well received by viewers? I already gave plethora of evidences how it is "most popular" shipping on the "most popular" websites of the internet. There is this guy called "Pokemonrangerboy12" on youtube, 30-40% of his videos are Amourshipping amvs and he's got around 30000 subscribers. Why would had he gotten go many subscribers if Amourshipping wasn't popular ? His Amourshipping videos are way more popular than Pokeshipping videos.
My reason why is simple: XY itself was not received well by viewers, and in fact has extremely poor ratings right now, and is far less than even AG, which was pretty low in ratings as well (though it's box office and merchandising still made up for that setback, unlike XY where not even box office receipts and merchandising could save it), meaning it has even less viewers than AG or possibly even BW, and BW is probably the one show that could potentially outrank it.
Worldwide, maybe Serena is more popular than Misty, who knows. But the Japanese, the one fanbase that actually matters life and death to the anime and games? Don't make me laugh, there's no way Serena can be considered more popular than Misty when the series she starred in is the bottom feeding of ratings right now, even before Yokai Watch aired. When the show she stars in can't even beat out the OS in terms of Japanese ratings and fanbase, there's definitely no way Serena, OR Amourshipping can outclass Misty in terms of popularity.
-Like I said before all the characters have their merchandises, not just Misty.
Yes, but why market her NOW? Especially when they're going to be more likely focusing on the current or next series. Name me one Iris, May, or Dawn figurine that was actually released during XY that is NOT tied to either ORAS or a remake. You can't. And you can't even cite the 20th anniversary for the anime, because that's next year (this year, it's the games' 20th anniversary). And even if you can cite it, there's also the little problem about how Brock doesn't have his own G.E.M. Figure despite being one of the original trio.
-Misty's flashback return (The episode and the flashback were focused on Charizard, not on Misty) pales in comparison to Dawn's 9 episode cameo. You yourself admitted it wasn't needed and did almost nothing for her character development. They could have reduced Dawn's cameo to 2-3 episodes like Misty's, why did they unnecessarily extend it to 9 episodes?
Because the writers didn't know what they were doing. And Misty definitely had two differing arcs for her, which is saying something, plus she managed to appear in the 10th Anniversary special, which is something Dawn hasn't gotten, BTW. Remember, BW was the same series that decided to make Ash a caricature of himself in the worst way possible, had him ranking even worse in a league than the previous one, and had a completely pointless region that didn't even have some form of major competition arc (even the Orange Islands, for it all being a filler region, at least had the Orange League to keep us going. Decolore had literally nothing). They figured they'd just go by tradition regarding Dawn since they figured "hey, we brought Misty and May back, why not Dawn" despite her having absolutely nothing to do with the region. And BTW, for May, they didn't even NEED to bring her back either (in fact, based on just how eager and quickly she took Drew up on his offer to go to Johto in the final episode due to it being rushed, she definitely wouldn't have been the type to revisit her friends), they could easily just have her continue with Johto without even visiting Sinnoh, yet they gave her an appearance. And UNLIKE with Dawn, they made SURE to justify her appearance.
-Ratings have been falling since the beginning because of repetitive nature of the show, Misty's return is not going to help. Even in the episodes she returned in Hoenn, the ratings were still low compared to indigo league episodes.
Maybe, but her returns in Hoenn did have them reach Johto levels, at least. Maybe it can't go back to Indigo League levels, but it most certainly can reach at least Johto levels.
-Also most people I know from Japan on serebii, facebook, youtube are amourshippers including Dephender (he regularly posts in Amourshipping thread at serebii). They believe Serena is more popular than Misty now in Japan. You can confirm by asking them (if you can since you were banned from Serebii years ago..).
I don't think IrregularMaverickZ's even the type to ship any ship, yet even he agreed that Amourshipping is not popular compared to Pokeshipping when I showed him that Tumblr link, and even explained why (I'll give you a hint: Tsundere shippings are considered far more popular among the Japanese base than instances of girls gushing on guys). Why don't you ask him if you're so insistent on that. Also, I'm not banned from SPPF, not permanently, anyways. I WAS, however, banned from BMGf. And for the record, they themselves may be Amourshippers, but that DOESN'T mean that everyone in Japan is that.
-All the characters have haters not just Serena, I've seen people mocking Misty, May, Iris and Dawn too for various reasons. You do know Scott85/Cybercubed, right?
Yeah, I'm very familiar with Scott85/Cybercubed, he was that backstabbing guy who often turns on girls the second they're expedient. Think of him like that Goat Herder from The Odyssey and the disloyal servants from the same work. And I know many girls have haters (I've had to deal with several regarding Misty myself, and besides which, I myself hated May and Dawn because they came across far too similar in behavior to the Love Hina girls and the Fiorello Fangirls from Princess vs. Princess, which I had been taught to hate).
-There is nothing wrong in developing Amourshipping slowly in my opinion instead of making it a canon in just 59 episodes, that would have sucked.
59 episodes IS slow, though, since it takes roughly a year. What would stink is making it canon literally at the first episode. You want them ACTUALLY doing it fast, how about doing it in the first episode, or the second episode, the fourth episode, heck, even the eighth episode. THAT'S fast. 59 episodes? That's as slow as one can reasonably get.
-Who is IrregularHunterZ?
He's a member on this site, and based on some of his posts, he's extremely familiar with how Japanese markets work as well as how Japanese fanbases work. I even linked you to one of his posts. This one, to be specific:
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=8556080&postcount=97
And here's his profile and posting history:
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https://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=506568
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https://www.pokecommunity.com/search.php?searchid=7042534
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https://www.pokecommunity.com/search.php?searchid=7042535 (Correction, he's actually from Chile, not Japan, but he is shown to be VERY knowledgeable about how Japan works and often uses Japanese names in place of the Westernized names relating to the games.).
And for the record, if the Japanese were dead set in regards to making sure she was removed from the main cast (case in point, her goal is basically as explicit regarding her departure as one can get, and that was only given to her mid way through the series, so if anything, they probably gave her the most obvious limited goal they can think of specifically to ensure she got kicked out and the fans got it, which hints more at unpopularity on her part), it's more likely that they will remove her than they will keep her. Her goal basically said she's going to leave at the end of the region.
I might as well also add something else, has it ever occurred to you that the popularity in Japan for Serena might have to do with, oh, I don't know, her manga counterpart? I know Kisarasmoon is a pretty big fan of her Manga counterpart, for example, even though she doesn't like her anime counterpart due to how poorly handled she was. I heard the manga's definitely still selling very well in Japan, so I find that to be a more likely possibility than anime Serena and Amourshipping being more popular with the Japanese than Misty and Pokeshipping, since that leaves a very big discrepancy as to how Serena and her ship can have more fans when her series has either the lowest or second-lowest Japanese viewers, not enough to even match up with ANY of the girls or their ships barring Iris, let alone surpass Misty and her ship. My disputing Serena's popularity has nothing to do with my wanting a ship to be canon (heck, I don't even CARE for Pokémon Shippings because they neither have love at first sight [Disney and Romeo and Juliet taught me LAFS is the way to go], they don't have the characters actually reciprocating, nor are they even of age), nor does it have anything to with invested interest in Misty (even if I hated Misty and loved Serena, the opposite of what it is now to some extent, I STILL would dispute it). No, the reason I dispute your claim is because the numbers don't add up.
Either way, let's agree to disagree, considering that we've already gotten way off topic as it is. Either way, it's pretty clear Serena's leaving the show after they inevitably go to Alola.
