Pros:
- story takes place in all of regions that we got to see so far in Pokemon Anime,
- new style of pokemon battles ranking system,
- small story arcs can be really interesting
- showcasing mega evolution, gigantomax, and z moves in one anime season,
- the pokemon battles are really nicely done,
- Ash team is really well balanced,
- showcasing different characters goals
Cons:
- dual protagonist story formula,
- Goh character can be really inconsistent,
- Chloe (Koharu) development so far,
- Team Rocket Gacha machine,
- some anime director decisions regarding the plot,
- story takes place mostly in Kanto region,
Overoll I am really mixed about this pokemon anime generation, because the plot bounces for me beetween Advance quality of storry telling to best wishes. It's like a sine wave it one moment the story it's good but in another it's just Best Wishes standards. One of key elements that downplay this series is unreal Goh 100% catching Pokemon luck, this problem started to show it's self around epsiode 20, and the it gor worce as the time go on. Now for his personal goal it's kinda interesting, but the character execution in anime feels more force and robotic rather than as a natural progression. It's like a read the attendance list during an English lesson and the Pokemon he catches are type as present in the class. This is why some fans don't like this character at all, but it still has the chance to change.
When it comes to Ash his character still continues to grow after the well done prevous Sun Moon anime generation, with a really balanced Pokemon team, however some parts of hi training are cut from anime du to dual protagonist story formula. Lastly for Chloe (Koharu) really need more character development, because so far she really is shifted as a side character in this generation, aniem writers have a lot of potential here. Now when it comes to all reagions showcase Johto, and Galar had very little showcase in the main storyline. Galar is even the main region where the games Pokemon Sword and Shield takes place so it's even worst here. So far anime focuses solely on Kanto first, and the on other regions.
PS. Right now anime is in weird position where it can be rated as one of the less fan favorable, or one of the best which depends on future choices of anime creators. We can only hope that they have learned the lessons from Ash loses in every Pokemon League prior to Sun Moon anime so they won't repeat them again, and Goh character needs some catching pokemon nerf, and some expansion like usage of a different Poke Balls. Chloe (Koharu) needs some serious character development like catching more fairy type Pokemon (her Eevee doesn't need to evolved), deciding on her goal, and more screen time in anime.
