With the way things are looking for Galar and pokemon SwSh right now regarding the pokemon community's response to all the bullmuk Game Freak has pulled, it may well be another situation where the Anime does better than the games. Sort of how XY games didn't really hold up that well, but the anime was great. Maybe the creators of the Anime will see all the backlash regarding the games and give more effort into creating a better anime. Although what I really hope they don't do is take the rivals from the game. I seriously cannot handle another smily-all-the-psyducking-time rival without any tension.
Fair point. It remains to be seen how all encompassing the current outrage is, and if its a vocal minority or broader discontent with GF.
But regardless, I think that TPCI has really struggled to grow up with its fanbase, and its constant pandering to the Japanese youth, rather than recognizing and supporting its more mature international audience will end up resulting in an poor anime.
Children follow hype, and have short attention spans. If the game fails to garner broad interest in the series, I think that the anime will instead shift to a more mature tone, knowing that its older audience will remain, even when younger players disappear, much like the tonal shift of XY as it became clear that the games were unpopular.
I really hope than they go back to the more polished and angular style, and remove the ever-present, intrusive and poorly written comedy relief characters like the rotom-dex. I think that these changes will alone improve the quality of the anime, even if they make no changes to the story formula of past series',
But he barely looks human. Also he has wayyyyy too much going on in his design; it looks like he robbed a Hot Topic store. What is it with all of the new Gym Leaders having so many accessories on their bodies? It's just getting kinda ridiculous imo. Sometimes less is more...
I agree.
Simply for the sake of animation turnover, I find it highly unlikely for them to include such complex character designs prominently within the series.
I hope that the series returns to the old formula of using the game protagonist.