>doesn't go after him herself
>>59297407>cockblocks because that's her man>doesn't go after him herself because that demonstrates vulnerability Come on anon, weren't you a kid once? First one to confess is the loser and nobody wants to be the loser.
>>59297407saved herself for an ugly fat bastard (me)
>>59297414That's for cowards. If you like someone you should tell them.
She would have unironically gone apeshit if she met Serena
i never understood this people say the dub added her crush on ash but the fact that she gets angry at girls who try to get with him is a consistent character trait in the japanese version that continues all the way into johto
>>59297407Sounds like every girl I've met
If a guy doesn't make the first move the girl will stunlock herself and only be proactive when there's a threat. This is the reason why Misty never shared screentime with Serena.
tsuns are shit
>>59297441Shudo has said she didn't know what to do with her life and just kind of latched on to Ash's journey to avoid having to face that fact. So her acting like a cunt to other girls is in the original, but any implication she wants Ash herself is just dub lines. There's a reason it was just westfags that flipped their shit when Serena got introduced as the actual romantic interest.
>>59297407And then he fucked out of her reach and got milked dry by May...and Dawn... and Irys... And like 5 different girls from Alola... and Serena against his will... and Goh... and Brock but just once. And Pikachu, Chikorita and Latias, too.
>>59297493Probably a compounded issue since all of the international dubs are based on the 4kids dub
Misty: do not fuck AshOther girl: Sorry, I didn't know he was your boyfriendMisty: He's not my boyfriendOther girl: So I can fuck him right?Misty: NoOther girl: Why not?Misty: I SAID NOOther girl: Are you working out some kind of issue here or-Misty: Nobody fucks Ash
>>59297507Yeah, the point is that the Japanese writers had no idea these rewrites even existed, so they had no idea anyone would get mad if they "retcoonned" Misty's dub-invented "crush".
>>59297493The two orange islands episodes on the subject are implicative enough in japanese but don't exactly state it outright. I think it's a reasonable assumption that she had a crush since she clearly does not like it when there's any other girl trying to get with him, but at the same time that's also during a different era of the franchise when things were not as set in stone and yeah the dub absolutely took any ambiguity and threw it out the window for the sake of who knows what.
>>59297493I'm not sure about this. Yeah the Dub made it outright explicit with the (multiple) love songs but I think any sane person would reach the conclusion alone based on Misty's response to other women
She wanted his dick but she's a tsundere in a kodomo anime so that can only amount to "I-I just want Korphish to be happy" and nothing else. She doesn't have the mental equipment to understand this feeling so she takes it out on those who do.
>>59297521I see, what a mess we can cause. I am nostalgic for the 4kids dub but it is a key example of how destructive localization can be. You could argue those decisions lead to Serena's storyline feeling inconclusive in the future.
>>59297493moments like this didn't help either
>>59297493
>>59297721>>59297732I always figured the whole "dub invented misty's crush" thing was just a shipperfag cope. She's a standard tsundere who blushes when she wants something from Ash. It's obvious, the dub just took a rare gag and made it a major part of her personality. There's scenes that literally make less sense if she's not into him like >>59297721Pokemon isn't deep enough for the mental gymnastics necessary to explain away her behavior
>>59297407Funny how people forget the characters are 10 years old
>>59297575Nah, Serena was so blatantly set up as endgame nobody would ever try to argue against it had XY been the first series. There was nothing inconclusive about it.
>>59297832I mean inconclusive in that her final appearance sucks when it could have been awesome instead. That was definitely done to avoid controversy. My hot take is that XY or at least BW should have retired Ash early. XY doesn't benefit at all from using the same character as OS and so far its been nothing but a detriment. It could have been the exact same story with a new Ash or a Calem. Journeys absolutely did not help.
>>59297814I wasn't cockblocking people when I was 10 bitch were you?
>>59297832If Serena had been first she would have gotten an actual send off instead of a gag episode. Now this stupid franchise is terrified of genwunners so we'll probably never get anything nice.
>>59297414>First one to confess is the loser and nobody wants to be the loser.I never dropped that phase desu
When I was ten years old I confessed to my crush and she looked stunned and I got embarassed so I took it back and then she started crying because I took it back and then never talked to me again and everyone thought I was just an asshole.
>>59297407>OP unfamiliar with tsunderes
>>59297407blame the shittest anime of all time neon genesis evangelion
>>59297732I love how proud Brick looks.
>>59298328>Brick
All pokegirls are ugly brat little girls.
They're supposed to be like 9 bruh. It's a show for babies like Crayon Shin-Chan.
>>59298518Well if it was meant to teach me that girls are inside and that I wouldn't want to be with one on even a short journey - let alone life - it did its job. I don't know if Pokemon turned me gay but bitches like Misty definitely made me hate women.
>>59298518Crayon Shin-Chan had hot girls too
Misty is cute and hot so I forgive her
>>59298518shin-chan is a seinen manga desu
>>59298627>A cartoon women created and written by men made me hate women in real life
I don't think you guys see the problem here >Misty gets jealous if other girls flirt with Ash>Misty prevents other girls from flirting with Ash because of this jealousy>Misty does not flirt with Ashso you're telling me she's just a coward then? A coward and a hypocrite? "I won't have him but nobody else can either!". Can you imagine if she met Serena? This idiotic little ginger would ruin everything for no good reason and then... just say "Baka he's not my boyfriend!"? That's insane. Misty has fucking problems and needs therapy. What an idiot.
>>59297850If Serena was first, the show would've bombed and we wouldn't be talking about the franchise decades later.
>>59298346>uglyNo.
>the tsundere that actually won Next time follow the right franchise
>>59298659how do you not know what a tsundere is?
>>59298687Its some japanese thing where the girl says baka. What is it a medical diagnosis? Misty gets to act stupid because of tsunder?
>>59298682God Medabots aged so well, I watched it recently and its even better than I remember it being, what an underrated show (the season where Medabee is a racecar doesn't count)
>>59298694My mind blew apart when the PS1 game ends with Erika kissing Ikki
>>59298694Medabots is exactly like if the Pokemon anime was fully plotted out with more care about the characters than the brand
>>59298627>girls are insideInsufferable. Meant insufferable.
to this day, I'll remind them
>>59298682Pretty sure there was no winner in the anime & the game allows the players to pick.
>>59297504god I wish he was me
>>59298743You can't pick in the games made after the series. The PS1 game makes it Arika
>>59297407If Ash actually cared about getting with any other girl, he would have either dumped Misty or otherwise uncockblocked himself
>>59297407To be fair, she's a kid.
>>59297493That... makes absolutely no sense. Not knowing what to do with her life wouldn't make her jealous of other girls getting close, if anything, she should want another girl to travel with them.
>>59297735It IS shipperfag cope. Note that the whole "4kids made it up" wasn't something fans kept insisting on until XY came along.You can show them clips from the Japanese version of them blushing and they'll still say it was 4kids.
>>59297735I genuinely just reject it when people say this because no amount of complex self reflection is going to make someone consistently get in the way of flirts
>>59298627But anon, there are Pokemon everywhere. There might even be one under that girl's skirt. Are you saying there are things you wouldn't do or witness in this world, even if they brought you closer to being a Pokemon master?
She doesn't want to admit she's crushing on a childish dope, but she also doesn't want to lose the chance.She's a kid, kids aren't very rational.
>>59297407Why is the filename Sora. That's not Sora, that's Misty.
>>59300908Notice how Serena and Melody are able to be up front while Misty acts like a weird territorial dick
>Ash ended up with no oneKek every other Kid anime protagonist have started families and had kids, Assh is forever alone
>>59301070>grew up with emotionally abusive sistersYeah, no shit.
>>59301070Serena isn't really written with "10 year old" in mind. She behaves more like an early teen. Even Dawn and May were just as childish as Misty at certain times.
>>59301222I'm surprised there's even still Ash self inserts after that ending to the Ashime
