Should Ash age or not ?

Okay, I guess I'll start adding more opinions now. First of all...

1) With a timeskipped Ash............ Keep the same Japanese voice actor. Don't get a manly man to man up Ash man voice to make Ash sound like a man. But the bigger thing is... This is a timeskip ASH. I do want him to mature, but I don't want him to seem like a completely different person. Wait I already said that.

2) No reason that the show suddenly has to turn dark just because he's older.

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Originally Posted by CommanderPigg

Oooh, also, if he never ages, that means that there's nothing stopping the writers from keeping him on the show for all eternity. This poses as a problem to me because the longer he stays on the show...the more of a meaningless marketable shell he becomes. I know that creating a new main character for the franchise may be a bit of a risk, but I would love to see Ash's journey reach a closure of some sort. Right now, his journey almost seems forced, his characterization is getting...ancient. I know that little kids won't care that much for it since they haven't stuck with Ash as long as some of the older fans have, but they probably equally wouldn't care if some shiny new hero replaced him.

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I agree with you pretty much. Not that I have big expectations for the new trainer.

I do wish Ash was 15 by now. Gradual age...

But one beneficial thing to the writers about Ash not aging is that the writers can use him for however long they can get away with it. And I am glad we know Ash's age. While some moments are deeper than others, this isn't that complicated of a show- in my opinion, they might as well tell us. And they did.

Personally, I think Ash still being 10, though, is a sign that this series is endless (well, it's already been) so people wanting to see his journey end soon and have been watching from the beginning should be alarmed. I would rather see Ash's episodes through the end, though. Not quit on my own. Especially since I don't think there's been a decent enough ending since either D&P's ending or "Friends to the End" in KANTO.

Why did they age the characters in the B/W games and not in the anime if the anime is designed to advertise the games? Was it just to be different for the sake of being different? Unnh...

EDIT: But by this time, he hasn't aged... so in my opinion, he might as well not age until the end of his... episodes? Whenever that is... Or maybe they could age him to 12. I don't think that'd be bad. Maybe borderline pointless, but... yeah.

Yes. Ash needs to age. He should be...maybe 14 or 15 in Unova. It's so unreal to say he traversed all of those regions and islands and everything in...well, less than a year. I can't buy that at all. Not for one moment. When they said he was still ten I flipped out hardcore. And it's a poorly done reboot tactic if that, because in the opening scene, they left mementos of his previous journeys in his room for everyone to see, like Easter eggs. It makes no sense at all to leave him ten.

And it'll be like Ben 10. Having him age did him a lot of good. Ben matured, and so did the awesomeness. I think Ash, if he gets older, would not seem weird to age and actually keep the experience he has gained over the years.

He should be at least 15 years old. Just look at how DP did so well making him seem more mature.

In DP he was mature and everyone liked it. In BW he was declared ten and he is written pathetically and a lot of people hate it.

Nope.

I don't want to see Satoshi as a stupid teenager.

Let the man age, he should be 14 if not 16 by now!!

I think he should really

Judging from how it took them(in the dub) one year to make it from Pallet back to Viridian, by this point, Ash should be about 14-15. Though he'd be 12-13 if the year from when he got Pikachu was in mid johto like in the 3rd movie short.

I don't want to see Ash age while he's a main character on the show. What I want to see is his saga end, and then he can cameo in the next main character's series as an older version of himself.

Otherwise, he can stay 10 (though still mature as a trainer!).

I'd like to see Ash age. But I don't feel that him aging would really add anything to him or his story, besides making him slightly more mature and slightly less kawaii desu uguu. (I would love it if the animators released concept art of an older Ash, just to see what he would look like, though.)

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Originally Posted by Karamazov

I'd like to see Ash age. But I don't feel that him aging would really add anything to him or his story, besides making him slightly more mature and slightly less kawaii desu uguu. (I would love it if the animators released concept art of an older Ash, just to see what he would look like, though.)

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Wouldn't it force them to add to story.

everyone needs to get over themselves ash will be 10 forever plus shows like simpsons, southpark and family guy never age so move on

and the show would be less enjoyable if he was older

I'd rather have him grow up(and stay that way) than just grow older and remain the same as ever.

He should have aged a year per region. Stating he's 10 again makes no sense and just makes it seem like past sagas never happened.

1 year in real world should be equal to 1 month in the show. That's make him 11 at least.

Ageing Ash to 15 at the most wouldn't ruin his character whatsoever. It'd be the same Ash only taller.

The only reason people, myself included, want to see him aged is so we can be certain the writers actually give a damn about staying consistent about the continuity of this show.

Because no where in hell did he participate in 4 Leagues, one Battle Frontier, the Orange League Challenge and captured, trained and bonded with 30+ Pokemon in less than a year.

Not even the "a year is longer in the Pokemon Animeverse than in our world" theory is that feasible anymore...