Pokemon XY

Many people will disagree with my low rating, but the fact is - when you watch too much of an anime (this anime has 93 episodes, and still has an XYZ season after it) it becomes it really boring, especially when there's a formula to an episode. I remember dropping on this anime at about episode 60, then a few months ago I went so far as to watch the XYZ version. The reason for all of this is because every episode, while they do something new, team rocket comes and annoys the hell out of them, then they get their Pokemon back, beat the ... hell out of them, and finally - continue whatever they were gonna do. It gets really repetitive as episodes go by. That's the reason behind my low rating on the show, even though when I was first watching it I thought it was amazing. You can't deny the great animation and sound, which carries the anime to 4. Without them I wouldn't have it at more than 2, or at most - 3.

At first I wonder why this anime can get such a high score.. I mean, it's just same like before..

First, the Satoshit we know for over a decade continue his adventure through new region called Kalos, with his suddenly being lamed (again) pikachu with no maturation at all. He's just like before, didn't change at all, still being silly, and so on.

Second, now we got a new companion, and interestingly the girls is such Satoshit's... childhood friend? oh okay, but she has nothing interesting, so are the other characters.

Third, team rocket has come back as usual, being blasted off again and again. Nothing ... that is interesting.

The only good thing is the art. Well, since diamond and pearl they had used such a good art, though..

At last, all I can say is maybe the only one who can enjoy this kind of anime is no other than fanatic pokefan. The other may just get boring so fast, especially they who've seen pokemon's previous season.

I'm waiting for the movies instead of continuing the anime that most likely can be predictable and stalling its episodes longer and longer

Pokemon XY is the worst series in the whole Pokemon anime. Its nothing like the classic anime. Its very poorly made, and has VERY annoying characters. Im a huge fan of the pokemon series, but this is horrible compared to the other series in the anime.

Story line4/10-THERE ARE NO SPOILERS. Once again, Ash is ready for a new adventure in the Kalos region. He once again collects gym badges, working to become the best trainer. Its the say as any other pokemon series. Its somewhat enjoyable. I mean, its easy to fall in love with the story line, and its not the worst, but its ... the same for every story line. I dont hate it, but for XY, its more dumber.

Characters2/10-This is the worst part. The characters are very annoying. Bonnie is the worst. She is very poorly made, and never gets mature. Serena is another girl who loves Ash, but shes like a filler because Ash never seemed to know her until Serena tells him the story. Serena was made really only to be annoying, like Bonnnie. Team Rocket is funny, like always. But their the only good characters. Everyone else are annoying and stupid. Ash is even more dumber them before.

Soundtrack5/10-At least the anime doesnt fail to much here. The Soundtrack is not bad, just okay. Its enjoyable, but not as good as other pokemon soundtracks.

Art7/10-This is the best part. The art is quite good. The art for the pokemon attacks look great. However, the character design isnt so good. Since Ash doesnt look so great for art design. Its just good, not as good as other art for other pokemon series, but still okay.

Enjoyment3/10-No,I didnt enjoy Pokemon XY. It was a poor anime. The characters are like a joke,the soundtrack has gotten worse,the art isnt that great,and the storyline is stupid. There is no enjoyment. Well,a little,but barely.

Overall3/10-Pokemon XY is a boring series. There is very little enjoyment. I do not recommend this series for any pokemon. The pokemon are also strange looking. Keys, Pumpkins, Slug dragons, Cotton Candy, whats next, fry pans, Spoons, forks, pants, hats? LOL. Anyways, Pokemon XY is terrible, dont watch it.

I have been binging every Pokemon generation and I can safely say XY is by far in a way my least favorite generation

I need to talk about the abomination that is XY Ash because that is the root of almost all of my problems. It seems that in a misguided attempt to make Ash “cool” they wiped away all of his charisma and childlike excitement, but forgot to replace it with anything. Thus leaving behind just this hollow shell of a character who could be replaced with a piece of cardboard and nothing would feel different.
XY Ash gives off the same vibe of someone who ... is at a friend’s party and would rather be anywhere else, but is pretending to have fun so they don’t hurt their friend’s feelings.

Every other Ash has this hyperactive nature where he gets pumped up over every single thing he sees and does which would infect the viewer and make them just as excited. XY Ash never gets even close to as fired up about anything like every other Ash and if the main character isn’t hyped up how the fuck am I supposed to be hyped up?

Another thing is people keep banging on about how XY Ash is “competent” but I kept track and he did not perform any better or worse than any other Ash. In fact I think Sun and Moon Ash is actually a bit better. One of the only key differences between XY Ash and all of the others is that he entered the league with a fully evolved team, but literally every previous season endlessly banged on about how evolution didn’t make your Pokemon objectively better and you would often see other high level trainers entering the league with underevolved Pokemon as well. This felt like a betrayal of that concept. And again like I said, it made no fucking difference.

The other difference was that XY Ash was “strategic” and this was a massive misstep in my opinion. Before XY, Ash always operated on instinct choosing the Pokemon his sixth sense knew was right even if logic would dictate otherwise, most times he would be proven right and on occasion his instinct would be wrong which would be fine because then he’d learn. In addition he’d constantly come up with brilliant outside of the box solutions that could only be done if he wasn’t already committed to a different strategy.
The problem with a strategic Ash is that he always thinks inside of the box and when he fucks up it’s not his instinct failing him, it’s just because he’s a retard who comes up with dumb plans.

Let me give you a specific example that really pissed me off. (WARNING SPOILER)

When Ash was facing off against Valerie she had her Spritzee use Trick Room which switched the speeds of Ash’s Fletchinder and her Spritzee. So Ash began repeatedly using Flame Charge which is a move that boosts speed which would just boost the Spritzee’s speed instead because of Trick Room which just let Spritzee keep wailing on Fletchinder. It turned out Ash’s idea was that he’d get all of the speed when the Trick Room ended. When that came to light everyone on the sidelines began verbally sucking Ash’s dick over it. Naturally as you’d expect with a mind numbingly dumb plan like that Fletchinder got the shit knocked out of it.
What made this particularly upsetting aside from the aforementioned verbal cocksucking was that Ash had countered Trick Room in a much better way before. In the Sinnoh League in Ash’s battle with Conway, Conway had his Dusknoir use Trick Room so to counter it Ash had his Gible use dig, pop up underneath Dusknoir and bite onto its hand. Gible had a strong jaw so Dusknoir couldn’t get Gible off meaning it suddenly didn’t matter how fast Dusknoir was because Gible would always be attacthed to its hand. Then Ash had Gible use Draco Meteor point blank while still holding on so Dusknoir couldn’t dodge no matter how fast it was moving and it got knocked out winning the match for Ash.

The difference between these two solutions was that the second one was totally outside of the box which made it so much more effective. You’d never see an idea like that come out of XY Ash.

Gonna move on from Ash now and switch to the other pulsating tumor on this generation, Serena. My god you could use her as a guide on how NOT to create a love interest.
First thing is that they forcefully disrupted the canon to make them childhood friends just to give her an excuse to like him. I don’t know why the Japanese are so addicted to this super lazy premise. I don’t understand why they couldn’t have her fall in love with Ash for his qualities, from travelling with him and realizing she enjoys his company. No, she just needs to have happened to met him at one point in time and suddenly decide she wants to give up her current life to see this random asshole she hasn’t seen in years and could be completely different from the person she once knew.
Pretty much every other point I could make could best be summarized by what I said about Ash’s personality (or lack thereof).

Lastly I want to talk about the dynamic backgrounds which i actually have mixed feelings about. On one hand I do feel like they enhanced the battles but on the other hand they only did so if you completely turned your brain off while watching. The second you decide to start looking for details and you’ll quickly notice the characters never move with the background and its so fucking jarring that it shatters my immersion every time and as someone who is a stickler for detail that is a major problem.
I remember someone saying it was so they didn’t have to rely on speedlines anymore but I retort by saying that Sun and Moon does that without any stupid gimmicks.

The one saving grace of this series is that the battles are really well done, but the aforementioned problems really ruin them, I kept finding myself trying to feel excited but never could because like I said, Ash was never excited.