Why is this manga so shit? (At being adapted to anime I mean, no other franchise would miss the chance for such content)

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>>58624006
>actually developing Sapphire would make her more prominent than Ruby
This drives me insane because this is where the RS arc hit an impossible dilemma. You can see the point where "Kusaka already begged and begged his boss to let Ruby be the main character even though Ruby seemed faggy at first" started to clash with "oh shit wait Sapphire could actually be the more interesting MC"

Canon Ruby
>Ruby thinks physical beauty is more important than anything else
>has disdain for ugly people
>is ironically physically "ugly" himself (his scar)
>goes to extreme lengths to hide his scar from everyone
>the only way for him to change his worldview and grow as a person is to accept his own ugliness
>but it's hard to do it alone so the tipping point is Sapphire accepting and even seeing the good in his scar
>finally accepts his suppressed masculinity (scar = evidence of violence) through a positive relationship with the opposite sex (Sapphire)
>overcomes childhood trauma through relationship with a childhood friend who gets it

Theoretical Sapphire parallel (just one idea, doesn't have to be exactly this)
>Sapphire thinks physical strength is more important than anything else
>has disdain for weak people
>is ironically physically "weak" herself (has some form of disability)
>goes to extreme lengths to hide her disability from everyone
>the only way for her to change her worldview and grow as a person is to accept her own weakness
>but it's hard to do it alone so the tipping point is Ruby accepting and even seeing the good in her disability
>finally accepts her suppressed femininity (disability = vulnerability/helplessness) through a positive relationship with the opposite sex (Ruby)
>overcomes childhood trauma through relationship with a childhood friend who gets it

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>>58625125
Canon Sapphire
>claims she only cares about strong fighter Pokemon, yet doesn't discriminate against anyone weak
>the only one she was purposely rude to was Ruby but only at first since he's annoying
>had an aggression problem but never had an "omg she took it too far" moment and her tantrums were usually justified in context
>got blinded/went mute only to be cured in hours/days (since permanent disability would make her way more interesting than Ruby; a crippled life in the woods has objectively higher stakes than Ruby's "reeee I hate my dad")
>goes to extreme lengths to hide her "girly" feelings (like crushes) from everyone (yet was ready to spill her spaghetti to Ruby by volume 19 anyway?)
>the only way for her to change her worldview and grow as a person is to accept her own emotional vulnerability (no physical dimension)
>but it's hard to do it alone so the tipping point is Ruby accepting and even seeing the good in her vulnerable side
>finally accepts her suppressed femininity (openly loving someone = vulnerability) through a positive relationship with the opposite sex (Ruby)
>overcomes childhood trauma through relationship with a childhood friend who gets it
>gets locked in a car lmao

Canon Sapphire just feels unexplored. It's not that she should be bitchier (I like canon's "scary Tarzan brute is actually a socially awkward sweetheart" twist) or lose a leg, the point is she had just as much potential for deep character shit as Ruby did. She could've at least had a point where her worldview or just her view of herself was heavily challenged.

At the same time maybe she shouldn't have too much angst anyway, being the yin to Ruby's yang. Canon Ruby had a warped worldview partly because he already was a dick anyway. But Sapphire was always the relatively nicer one, so her canon personality would have to be totally inverted for her to actually believe in shit like "strong must eat the weak" Darwinism.

>>58625087
I dropped it around HGSS but Yellow is waifu

I like the theory that Spe Steven is blind
It also adds another parallel between him and Zinnia

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>>58625087
I dunno about best mon, but I do know who'd sit at the bottom of the pile

>>58625115
Because ashfags are the bane

>>58625087
>Best MC
Gold
>Best girl
Y
>Best ship
Ruby x Courtney and Black x White
>Best team
Tie between Dia's Team Fat as Fuck and Black's Bros.
>Best side character ships
Shauna x Tierno
>Best villain team
Plasma and Flare
>Best arc
The second half of Emerald. The worst is the first half lol
Also XY was pretty consistently good.

>>58625134
For Sapphire to work, she'd need more moments where her need to always seem strong and optimistic comes off as insensitive to the other characters. Perhaps her trying to shrug off Mt. Chimney upsets Flannery or her lack of shock over Stone's assault creeps out Gabby. Those incidents would lead to Sapphire learning openly showing "bad" feelings like sadness and fear isn't inherently wrong or weak. That she's shutting herself off from proper empathy.

Ironically, you don't even need to fundamentally change the story because this extends naturally to the enviromental crisis and Ruby. She's now learnt that it's ok to be vulnerable (to an extent, her walls aren't meant to collapse until Mirage Island) with her emotions and self-reflect every once in a while. So her apologizing to Ruby and getting upset all have more weight if they're as a result of lessons learnt.

Of course, Sapphire's achilles heel is that she's deeply emotional, so when she shows "negative" emotions, she goes all out just as much as when she's her usual self, so that's what leads to her cutting ties completely when Ruby refuses to help. Again, Sapphire's characterisation right up until the airlock is good, it just lacks a little bit of context. We just have to assume Sapphire learnt these things on the way.

Somebody in the May general pointed this out but it's a missed opportunity for Seviper's back scar to not have been permanent to parallel Ruby.

>>58625336
Kinda wish it had evolved into a Zoroark and settled things with Bo while the Dragons fought

>>58625087
Silver is the sexiest character

>>58625115
>Why is this manga so shit?
Gamefreak/Nintendo refuses to support the manga