>Starts the series with Staryu, Starmie and Goldeen>Goldeen can't fight at all outside of water so it's completely useless in 99% of the episodes>Starmie only knows water gun and tackle, same moves as Staryu (but Staryu also knew Swift) so it's essentially just "Staryu but harder to draw". It barely had any screentime and was eventually dropped at the Cerulean gym.>Later in the series Misty caught Horsea, who's got the same issue as Goldeen, it can't fight outside of water. Writers realized this mistake and had Misty drop it at the Cerulean gym alongside Starmie.>Then Misty caught Psyduck, a comic relief pokémon who's useless 99% of the time.DAMNStaryu really hard carried Misty until her Poliwag evolved into Poliwhirl and became her new ace (and then Staryu pretty much disappeared and never got to be relevant again)Writers really hated Misty
>>58545906Shudo has explained that Misty was created because little girls are less likely to watch a show without any female characters in the main cast, but as long as there is a female character, she doesn't really have to DO all that much.So yeah, Misty has pretty useless mons because Misty's job was to be there on the screen, not to actively participate in the plot by battling or anything like that.
>>58545926Girls watch/read battle shonen though, a genre which is notorious for females being side characters at best
>>58545965>little girlsCan’t read?
>>58547026Yeah, this is referring to little girls that want a female character to identify with, not older girls that will lust over the male characters and gayship them with each other.
>>58545906There was a lot of odd stuff in the anime. Like for example it was fairly common in the beginning to reference real world weapons which implied that the pokemon world had them and likely militaries as well.It makes sense in a way because the average pokemon is a superpowered monster capable of mass destruction so of course humans need comparably strong weapons. But it does seem out of place compared to the games and the implication of guns existing kinda makes you wonder about the point of pokemon trainers.
>>58547071>which implied that the pokemon world had them and likely militaries as well.One of the characters from the GAME is a military man, anon...
>>58545906At least she has a Mega Gyarados now. She also caught a clauncher in Journeys.
>>58547127After 19 years? I want Entertainment to be delivered in a timely fashion, not as an afterthought.
>>58547071Sugimori designed a weapon that functioned like a temporary Poké Ball to capture rogue Pokémon (it's never specified if it worked on humans). I wonder why they never implemented it in the anime? That would have saved them a lot of trouble with censorship.
>>58547236Or from Johto onwards, use Remoraid
>>58547236There's no functional difference between that and the various capturing devices Team Rocket and other villains used.
>>58545906Reminder that the water-type gym leader mistook an Oddish as a water-type.
>>58547106Sorry I forgot about Lt. Surge.>>58547264What i winder is if team rocket had access to firearms why nobody took them more seriously or tried to arrest them. It seems like in most pokemon universes including the games people are just sort of Okay with there being roaming gangs of thugs blowing things up, stealing pokemon, and running gambling enterprises.
>>58547475That's basically how the yakuza works, yes.
>>58545906I never understood why they chose to keep Goldeen around instead of Horsea. Theu jad the same problems of not being able to fight on land, but Horsea was way cuter and had more personallity in it's first episode than Goldeen ever did.
>>58547914For me, their biggest mistake was not using Misty and Brock as a plot device for Pokemon related to their specialties and related topics. For example, Brock could have explained the biology and care of Ground and Rock-type Pokémon, as well as some paleontology and mineralogy, since that was his hobby in the games. Misty could have shared interesting facts about aquatic Pokémon and all types of bodies of water in general (whether Water-type or not, as is the case with Dragonite), and she could have been the athlete of the trio.Also, they would constantly rotated their teams. Brock using a Rhyhorn as a mount for the trio during land journeys, Misty had a fucking Lapras from day one for aquatic journeys (it didn't matter that it was garbage in battles), an episode with her training Ash's Kingler, another with Brock raising Larvitar and explaining how a terravore works, Misty having to take care of her sister's lazy Dewgong, and Brock raising a baby Geodude to give to his younger brother as his first Pokémon.You get the idea, I feel like much more could have been done to avoid falling into the tedium of the Johto arc that killed Pokemania.
>>58545926Womenbros...
>>58547475>people are just sort of Okay with there being roaming gangs of thugs blowing things up, stealing pokemon, and running gambling enterprisesThat's how mafias work, that's how gangs work, and that's how the cartels work.It's not so much people aren't okay with them, as it is that people recognize it's dangerous to deal with them, and most don't want to put their life on the line for it if they can help it.Except the mafias in prohibition-era America, those guys were actually beloved because they supplied alcohol.
