I would have liked to see them interact more, especially iris and alain since they barely know each other. Imagine Alain explaining to Iris that when his charizard mega evolves into Charizard X he becomes a fire/dragon type pokemon and she freaks out all confused because the pokedex never mentioned that, because if I'm not mistaken already had a scene in some pokemon black and white episode where she believes that charizard is a dragon type pokémon and Ash shows the pokedex showing that he is actually a fire/flying type, so her reaction would be amazing
I was upset with Alan's defeat during The Masters 8 Tournament because his character didn't shine as much as he could have even without winning. The writing was strange, I can't think that this Alan was the same Alan from post-Pokémon xyz and I'm not afraid to say that he could shine on the field without winning, as he has done a few times, and this makes it seem as if the writers weren't very committed to writing Alan from Pokémon Ultimate Journeys even though he was wonderful while he lost independently
But you keep crying because of Ash's defeat in Kalos because he lost, and for people who call themselves his fans, you don't talk much about how badass the whole match against Alain was. Not ironically Ash almost won, if he changed his strategy even slightly maybe he would have won. I hardly see these people who love to complain A LOT that the Kalos league was stolen and that Ash should have crushed Alan talking about how good the fight was, how well Ash fought in Kalos, and I repeat, almost won. The fight was well done, well designed, well performed, fun for those who watched and for the characters and even after that you can only talk about Ash losing as if it were something rare or impossible.
At some point at the very end of the anime before the league ends the 'crown' of focus for development was passed on to Alain, Alain was the one who needed to understand that being the strongest isn't everything, something that Ash had already understood an arc ago, and that the search for strength technically blinded him to the true dangers of the team flare plan, and that's what he understands at the end of Pokémon Xyz. And honestly love this break, when it seems like everything is going to be fine for Alain, that happens.
/hj but seriously fans of Ash from xyz, if you stopped crying and bothering JUST BECAUSE Ash lost and focused on how Ash also shine in Kalos, the ending of Kalos would be less boring for you.
What I want to say is that the dramatic and emotional charge of Alan winning It's bigger and makes more sense than if Ash won, at least that's how I interpret it.
This damn yellow bunny and his inconsistent design
His eyes vary between blue, yellow, green or purple, sometimes he is represented with a tie and sometimes without, with eyelashes and without eyelashes, with rabbit front teeth and some smaller teeth below or just similar to human teeth
Springbonnie my favorite animatronic/clothe in case you didn't know 🤓
