As I am typing this reply, I've finished watching Journeys and currently watching Ultimate Journeys.
Well obviously Ash's reserves being reintroduced/getting some focus would've been better, but some captures in Journeys like Lucario got me quite elated TBH. Lucario is a Pokemon a huge portion of the Pokeanime fan base wanted Ash to catch for a long time, especially with Ash's special aura abilities being shown in the anime multiple times like in M08 and with that Aura Sphere Riolu back in Sinnoh.....plus it's a Pokemon that suits Ash's battling style so well. Before Journeys, it seemed that the idea of Ash having a Lucario would remain confined only to fanfics...But Journeys made that dream come true. Overall, Journeys was quite a mixed bag for me though, while there are certain things I really liked about it like it's strong continuity to the past series, bringing back many previous characters + the battles, there were certain aspects I really hated as well like it's terrible sleep inducing fillers (even in between the Master 8 tournament, the series crammed in ridiculously boring and unnecessary fillers, like after the completion of the first round, the series had 3 consecutive fillers crammed in). In between the intensity and tension of the Master 8, those fillers just totally ruins the watching momentum. Apart from that, the Masters 8 battles were super cool, being really well thought out and having thorough intensity throughout, but still one thing bugged me thst Ash didn't use any reserves. I mean that the Master 8 is the biggest and most high-profile tournament in Ash's journey as a Pokemon trainer, it'd make perfect sense for Ash to use all of his Pokemon there and not just his Journeys team. Maybe in the final battle a.k.a. Ash vs Leon, Ash using his Journeys team makes sense, but these is really no excuse for him to not use his reserves in the earlier rounds. Journeys overall had so much continuity otherwise, so many previous characters and Pokemon reappeared, but for no reason Ash didn't use any reserves at the Master 8 and stuck to only his Journeys team.
Overall, I had a love hate relationship with Journeys, and rated the series a 7/10. If was being completely honest, I would have given it a 6/10, but I gave it 1 point extra since that series got me out of my anime slumber.
Recently I was involved in some interesting debates in the Versus thread TBH, and several of those debates involved Ash's Lucario, Leon's Charizard, JN Paul, etc etc. Though now-a-days the amount of posts in that section are far less in comparison to what it used to be back during those days, there are still some people who are interested in debating hypothetical matchups and the strength of various Pokemon.
I see, cool. Demon Slayer is one of my favourite battle-shounens, I even used to have it in my Top 10 anime at one point. The visuals/animation of that series it totally on another level, and I still do remember episode 19 of the first season had me literally screaming in excitement whilst watching it. The characters/story aren't anything too unique and like a standard battle-shounen, but they are still solid in their own way. I hope you enjoy watching that series. :)
Well as you're saying this, the situation has changed over time. I have resumed watching Journeys again and have made a return to PAD. I've currently watched up to the part where Ash finally defeats Bea in their third battle.
TBH even though most of the previous users who were active back during those days are now either inactive or banned, a few users like Pokegirl Fan, ShadowForce720, AuraChannelerChris, 1rkhachatryan, PokemonBattleFanatic, etc are still active around there.
A rather odd question, would you have gone back to SPPF, more specifically PAD now-a-days if you could? I myself now-a-days really do feel like going back there and post again but sadly I can't as my knowledge/experience with the Pokemon anime is quite backdated (only seen upto 54 episodes of Journeys). The problems I have been suffering from since late 2021 has forced me to stop watching any anime since then + as you know, my problems generated from extensive engagement with online forums so obviously have to refrain from engaging too much in internet forums....pretty much the reasons I can't go back to PAD again even if I wanted do.
Being a regular member in SPPF at a point of time, do you also feel like going back there and post like me? I'm just genuinely curious to know.
Pretty much the same for me over the last 2 months or so haha, which is pretty obviously why my reply is also late lol.
I see, yeah I miss those days as well TBH, those days in SPPF were a nice break from reality. But well, life moves on of course. I kind of have somewhat of an idea of how life as a doctor can be since my younger sister (who is 6 years younger than me) in also currently in the final year of her MBBS course and hence pretty obviously would become a doctor very soon. For me though, the life as a patient still hasn't ended unfortunately, the anxiety issues + OCD I have still do persist to a notable extent, though comparatively much lesser and a lot more in control than what I had to endure back in late 2021 and most of 2022. It still takes a rigorous sedative medicational course to keep the psychological/anxiety problems in control. Might sound wierd, but these problems actually generated in me from online forums and anime watching. My doctor told me that it was too much engagement in internet forums + extensive anime watching which caused my anxiety disorder + OCD. Pretty obviously the reason why I was off this site for the entirety of 2022. From late 2022-2023 and onwands, I have been much better than before, gradually recovering from those issues with time. The problems still haven't receded totally but the intensity of them is much less than what was before. I have come back on here in 2023 occasionally from time to time with notable breaks in between but I've been nowhere nearly as active as I was previously before, pretty obviously cuz I couldn't afford to be given my condition. And....as you can see, I recently took a month and a half long break here which is why my reply is a month late.
Well, I guess went a bit too deep there regarding my problems....hope it wasn't too long. Patients with issues like me often do have a tendency of speaking elaborately about their problems with others, cuz it tends to make them feel better. :)
My anxiety issues were really that much strong to the point where psychiatric treatment was required, I tried general counselling but that didn't seem to work. For the last year or so, I have been consulting a psychiatrist whose medicational course has slowly made me recover to the point I am today (which is a whole lot compared to my previous condition). I have been taking that medicational course of 5 psychiatric sedatives a day for the entirety of 2022 to today, thanks to that I'm recovered a whole lot today (still a bit away from being 100% recovered though). Kinda hard to explain how terrible my condition was in late 2021 and the early half of 2022.
And the fact that I have been taking a break from watch anything anime/Pokemon related is because of those anxiety issues....like I didn't even have an option otherwise.
I will write an elaborate reply to all these soon enough, but knowing that you did become a doctor, what's your branch of specialization? If it happens to be Psychiatry that please do tell me lol.
Umm so you now admit that Navin and Dream Lad were the same guy? :P
Haha, anyways glad to hear from you after such a long time.
It was a long, big struggle for me with psychological & anxiety issues that kept me away from internet forums for so long.......bit tired to explain all that. But currently I'm a lot recovered from all that, though still not 100%.
IDK whether I'd ever come back fully....though I just felt like logging in here after an year. Not currently updated on anything anime related and I'm not even sure I'm going back to those stuff ever again.
I dont know how it works there. On Bulbagarden there's a way to contact staff without logging in I think.
I dislike most of XY's fans because of that lol
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Well obviously Ash's reserves being reintroduced/getting some focus would've been better, but some captures in Journeys like Lucario got me quite elated TBH. Lucario is a Pokemon a huge portion of the Pokeanime fan base wanted Ash to catch for a long time, especially with Ash's special aura abilities being shown in the anime multiple times like in M08 and with that Aura Sphere Riolu back in Sinnoh.....plus it's a Pokemon that suits Ash's battling style so well. Before Journeys, it seemed that the idea of Ash having a Lucario would remain confined only to fanfics...But Journeys made that dream come true. Overall, Journeys was quite a mixed bag for me though, while there are certain things I really liked about it like it's strong continuity to the past series, bringing back many previous characters + the battles, there were certain aspects I really hated as well like it's terrible sleep inducing fillers (even in between the Master 8 tournament, the series crammed in ridiculously boring and unnecessary fillers, like after the completion of the first round, the series had 3 consecutive fillers crammed in). In between the intensity and tension of the Master 8, those fillers just totally ruins the watching momentum. Apart from that, the Masters 8 battles were super cool, being really well thought out and having thorough intensity throughout, but still one thing bugged me thst Ash didn't use any reserves. I mean that the Master 8 is the biggest and most high-profile tournament in Ash's journey as a Pokemon trainer, it'd make perfect sense for Ash to use all of his Pokemon there and not just his Journeys team. Maybe in the final battle a.k.a. Ash vs Leon, Ash using his Journeys team makes sense, but these is really no excuse for him to not use his reserves in the earlier rounds. Journeys overall had so much continuity otherwise, so many previous characters and Pokemon reappeared, but for no reason Ash didn't use any reserves at the Master 8 and stuck to only his Journeys team.
Overall, I had a love hate relationship with Journeys, and rated the series a 7/10. If was being completely honest, I would have given it a 6/10, but I gave it 1 point extra since that series got me out of my anime slumber.
Recently I was involved in some interesting debates in the Versus thread TBH, and several of those debates involved Ash's Lucario, Leon's Charizard, JN Paul, etc etc. Though now-a-days the amount of posts in that section are far less in comparison to what it used to be back during those days, there are still some people who are interested in debating hypothetical matchups and the strength of various Pokemon.
I see, cool. Demon Slayer is one of my favourite battle-shounens, I even used to have it in my Top 10 anime at one point. The visuals/animation of that series it totally on another level, and I still do remember episode 19 of the first season had me literally screaming in excitement whilst watching it. The characters/story aren't anything too unique and like a standard battle-shounen, but they are still solid in their own way. I hope you enjoy watching that series. :)
TBH even though most of the previous users who were active back during those days are now either inactive or banned, a few users like Pokegirl Fan, ShadowForce720, AuraChannelerChris, 1rkhachatryan, PokemonBattleFanatic, etc are still active around there.
Being a regular member in SPPF at a point of time, do you also feel like going back there and post like me? I'm just genuinely curious to know.
I see, yeah I miss those days as well TBH, those days in SPPF were a nice break from reality. But well, life moves on of course. I kind of have somewhat of an idea of how life as a doctor can be since my younger sister (who is 6 years younger than me) in also currently in the final year of her MBBS course and hence pretty obviously would become a doctor very soon. For me though, the life as a patient still hasn't ended unfortunately, the anxiety issues + OCD I have still do persist to a notable extent, though comparatively much lesser and a lot more in control than what I had to endure back in late 2021 and most of 2022. It still takes a rigorous sedative medicational course to keep the psychological/anxiety problems in control. Might sound wierd, but these problems actually generated in me from online forums and anime watching. My doctor told me that it was too much engagement in internet forums + extensive anime watching which caused my anxiety disorder + OCD. Pretty obviously the reason why I was off this site for the entirety of 2022. From late 2022-2023 and onwands, I have been much better than before, gradually recovering from those issues with time. The problems still haven't receded totally but the intensity of them is much less than what was before. I have come back on here in 2023 occasionally from time to time with notable breaks in between but I've been nowhere nearly as active as I was previously before, pretty obviously cuz I couldn't afford to be given my condition. And....as you can see, I recently took a month and a half long break here which is why my reply is a month late.
Well, I guess went a bit too deep there regarding my problems....hope it wasn't too long. Patients with issues like me often do have a tendency of speaking elaborately about their problems with others, cuz it tends to make them feel better. :)
And the fact that I have been taking a break from watch anything anime/Pokemon related is because of those anxiety issues....like I didn't even have an option otherwise.
Haha, anyways glad to hear from you after such a long time.
It was a long, big struggle for me with psychological & anxiety issues that kept me away from internet forums for so long.......bit tired to explain all that. But currently I'm a lot recovered from all that, though still not 100%.
IDK whether I'd ever come back fully....though I just felt like logging in here after an year. Not currently updated on anything anime related and I'm not even sure I'm going back to those stuff ever again.
Oh & wish you a very (belated) Happy New Year!
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So Lillie has a chance to beat Ash in a battle.
I dislike most of XY's fans because of that lol
The forums were annoying in the XY days. I still dislike that series lol