Anyway, if you have a conversation with the current Director or another person of higher position, then or now, then post it. Why? Because someone who worked on the show has more "legitimacy" concerning the show's future than a fan who doesn't trust him. If the GS Ball ever does return, I'll admit being wrong.
Actually, in his case, he has about as much legitimacy as a fan in regards to the show's future.
I mean, I already covered how he had absolutely no idea that there was going to be a Platinum version made, despite literally everyone and their brother in Japan knowing about it via Corocoro, Pokemon Sunday, and even Movie 11, so I won't cover that.
However, it did occur to me that he did not know squat about the VA change, and that happened around Season 9, where he was still the director. When WPM asked him about his viewpoint about the VA switch, not only was he upset, but he was completely surprised that it even happened (I mean, don't get me wrong, he'd still be upset even IF he knew, but his being surprised at this would imply that he knew nothing about it.).
I mean, if he were only just a low-level employee, that's one thing. But he was the director, who is one of the few people in a TV show with an international fanbase to actually have meetings with people in outside branches of the same franchise. In other words, when they made MMOMP (Which, contrary to popular belief, WAS made by the Japanese at least in a partial sense.), he and the others would discuss how to do things, and he would thus already know about the VA switch, because that would have been one of the things discussed due to the special being the first time that the new VAs made their debut.
That alone proves that he doesn't even know about his own franchise even when he was a director (and it would have been a very important and obvious thing to know about, since he and his writing staff helped with the making of that special.). If you honestly think he's more trustworthy about the future than your typical fan, or more knowledgable about it, why don't you try and disprove this?
And anyways, not that I particularly think that 4Kids has a good reputation, either, but in the Third Movie commentary, the 4Kids staff mentioned that the Japanese staff had mentioned that Ash's Father would be appearing in season 5, and guess what, he never appeared at all. Heck, he didn't even receive a mention, either, despite us being promised an appearance. Something very similar happened during Comic-Con, where a PUSA representative mentioned that during DP, Ash's father will be introduced, and so far, he hasn't even appeared at all yet.
