People's accounts of their own memories are rarely that accurate, and your judgement is questionable to begin with.
But let's just pretend it is accurate, that you and your friends were like "miniature adults", then that isn't the norm.
I've been to school with them, observed their behavior every time during my childhood, and none of my friends even acted close to that stereotype, even WHEN they were 10. Even outside of school, when I noticed them elsewhere, they were absolutely nothing like that description you gave of 10 year olds. And anyways, Anything I've experienced survives the test of time, and remains very vivid. Heck, even something like a brief glimpse at a commercial that I saw several years to over a decade ago of my life I remember as if I saw yesterday.
I don't see how it's making another Ash if they've shared some similar experiences. It's a good way to have characters able to bond.
Yeah, and Ritchie was similar to Ash in many respects, thus theoretically having those characters being bonded, thus the fanbase would like that. heck, Tracey would have been very popular due to the fact that he shares many similarities to Brock, and the last time I checked, people viewed them as unfavorable, to say the least, and outright clones at worst (not that I mind clones, of course, but still.).
She most certainly does. She's 10. Women develop much earlier than men.
That's true. BUT! That doesn't mean that they develop that much in May's case.
I'm not going to compare bust sizes of 10 year old animated female characters, because I'm not a creep. If you've studied bust sizes of the female characters...peaches. But I'm not going to. But it's safe to say that none of them are overtly big for how they're body is portrayed, and it's certainly not done so in a sexual fashion.
May's chest IS overly big, however. Heck, looking at my friends/peers at my school, they DEFINITELY weren't that big at that age.
I'll say this slowly:
They. Are. The. Bad. Guys. They insult people. Not to speak truth.
Well, EXCLUDING Team Rocket, there's still the fact that Ash himself stated after seeing her in a bikini that "she actually looks like a girl", which implies something that I can't really say since this is a kid's website. Keep in mind, BTW, that Ash is a good guy. Not to mention, in that same episode, Misty's chest was barely even present, especially when you compare it to, say, May in a Bikini in Early AG.
The point is that none of the characters in Pokemon are portrayed in a sexual way because anything that can be seen as sexual maturity just isn't there. Has anyone ever shaved in a Pokemon episode or had a 5 o clock shadow? I could go ahead and list all the signs of puberty, but that sounds fairly creepy and I hope I don't have to explain it to this board. But it's safe to say that that kind of stuff just isn't shown in Pokemon.
Yeah, you do realize that Brock's hormones are off the charts on the Show, right?
Dawn/May/Misty can "show" as much leg as they want because they aren't there as sex objects and aren't portrayed as such. They may be seen as pretty by some, maybe attractive even. But not sexy.
Alright. Her shorts may be too short, but they were at least not showing her panties (besides, they were definitely longer than in Ono's Pokemon Manga, and those were definitely short. So short, in fact that certain parts of her legs were showing.).
As to your paragraph on episodes that supposedly focus on other character: You give huge credit for sub-plots and count it as an episdoe that focuses on a character other than Ash (even though it's obvious that it focuses on Ash. Cmon, the title of the episode is "ash catches a Pokemon", not "Misty hates bug Pokemon."). And then you discredit Ash any time he has a sub-plot in a supporting character driven episode. It's a double standard.
What I believe is that in order for an episode to focus on a character, it has to focus on him, him and him alone/her, her, and her alone (leaving the other characters with little or no focus. for example, Go West, Young Meowth, where the main protagonists only got minimal screentime at best.). When I pointed out that the characters got focus in those episodes, I wasn't saying that those episodes focused on them (at least, not completely), I was just saying that Ash wasn't the focus of the episode (that is, it wasn't focused on him, him and him alone.).
And even IF I was doing double-standard, you're no different in regards to the other characters, saying that Episodes Ash was in focused on him primarily, and refusing to acknowledge that the other characters, like Misty and Brock, actually did focus on them, anyways.
The anime is focused on Ash. Sorry. That's not up for debate. It's a fact. Anything else is a complete delusion.
Sure, it focused on Ash, but then again, it focused on Misty, Brock, Tracey, May, Max, Dawn, and even Team Rocket. In order for the show to be focused on someone, it needs to be all the time, and in order to prove they aren't the stars of the show, they would get barely any focus (like, a millisecond's worth of focus.).
Now, if only one episode in the entire season, or heck, even the entire series, focused on the main characters other than Ash, and Ash got all the rest, then yes, the Anime focusing on Ash would DEFINITELY be fact.
