
Originally Posted by
Haunter227
I agree with this completely, but being a longtime viewer of the show I feel my opinion should be stated.
The show unlike other animes isn't to focus on the plot, but ultimately to adveritse and market the franchise itself, the anime is always classed as the second best thing and always has to follow by the rules to the franchise such as switching around episodes, changing the plot, making sure to debut the Pokemon, prolonging the Series until a new generation has been made etc.. I think the biggest point of all is that the anime as it is right now always revamps to some extent each saga to reintroduce things to the newer child audiences (most notably Pikachu's powerdown, Ash's knowledge, (insert name)'s character stating the physics of Pokemon), the anime has never stuck to one audience, especially because it's lasted 15 years, it's always aimed for new audiences each time around, which is why the writers seem to care less about how badly portrayed some things are for the older audieces. From my hindsight, it seems fairly clear the anime has never truly been an anime that focuses purely on itself, it's always had these things holding it back and worked solely for the franchise.
Shows such as Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note etc..have all been written to create one big overall storyline. The Pokemon anime definetly has a storyline, but it has to follow and keep up with the events of the real life games and other promotions, it's always changing. The most recent example being that B2/W2 has introduced a new Tournament feature, which the most current Series of Pokemon, Best Wishes is departing from now switching from the B/W story arc, and focusing on this new B2/W2 tournament.
My point as stated before is that the show always has to switch around and follow these events, which to me seems like it never gets to take full advantage of it's story.
This all being said, comparing the newest Series of the Pokemon anime to a lot of the previous Series, Best Wishes has definetly stepped up a notch big time and has made a bunch of new things. It's actually made a lot of relevant character reappear more frequent and doesn't have half the amount of fillers other Series had. Nearly every episode does indeed have a plot relevant event point (albeit a lot of them are small with things such as TR talking for 10 seconds). Either way, the anime right now is trying to seperate itself and make itself better than the others for a lot of different reasons that some could compare to the usual animes of today.