Thread: What is your biggest complaint about the Pokemon series?

One thing i've noticed in BW is that Trip, Bianca and now Kotetsu all have starter evolutions. What makes me mad is why give Ash all three starters if someone else was going to have the evolutions? Why can't Ash ever have fully grown evolution starters if he is going to catch them? This goes for Kanto and Johto. They almost letted Ash have all of them in DP but Empleon was given to Barry. If only Ash had it.

Biggest complaint? Probably Totodile's existence.

Originally Posted by Grabbergirl

Mine is some of the characters are messed up!!

Bianca: She has to watch where's she's going. She's always tripping people and says "sorry".
Trip: Ugh I hate him!!! He's just rude and (one of my friends said this) racist. He needs to go home to his overprotective parents or just go to a new region.
Burgundy: What a brat!!! I'd love to see her parents come, throw her in the car, and say "We're going home there will be no dessert you've been very rude", then get spanked. She's fifteen and acts like she's three.
Proffessor Oak: His segments are just annoying. And doesn't he know any poetry?
Iris: She needs a haircut and needs to stop being a bully.
Gary Oak: That little annoying brat.
May: What a baby? She's ten and ten year olds don't whine.
Brock: He should just get a girl and stop. Brock needs to stop flirting.
Richie: He's too perfect, nobody's perfect but god. And Richie is as perfect as god it makes me mad.
Paul: He's really abusive and hurts his pokemon.
Max: That little know it all!!!
Some characters are full of problems!!

And the fact that the characters pretend like their family doesn't exist. Like I never hear them say "Hey my dad said this", "that voice is so beautiful it reminds me of my mom's lullabies", etc. when will they start mentioning their familes!?

So wait a minute, you think it's wrong for characters to have personality quirks and have problems? What would you rather have, everyone be boring and one dimensional and all have the same boring monotone iterations with each other? You do realize this is a Tv show?

Originally Posted by Grabbergirl

No no I'm just saying their sometimes messed up. But I know it's a TV show and it's interesting. But I'm writing down the characters I hate and why I don't like them

So you hate those characters for rather shallow reasons, aspects of their characters that are supposed to be funny?

Originally Posted by Grabbergirl

Originally Posted by The Fighting Misty

Originally Posted by Grabbergirl

Mine is some of the characters are messed up!!

Bianca: She has to watch where's she's going. She's always tripping people and says "sorry".
Trip: Ugh I hate him!!! He's just rude and (one of my friends said this) racist. He needs to go home to his overprotective parents or just go to a new region.
Burgundy: What a brat!!! I'd love to see her parents come, throw her in the car, and say "We're going home there will be no dessert you've been very rude", then get spanked. She's fifteen and acts like she's three.
Proffessor Oak: His segments are just annoying. And doesn't he know any poetry?
Iris: She needs a haircut and needs to stop being a bully.
Gary Oak: That little annoying brat.
May: What a baby? She's ten and ten year olds don't whine.
Brock: He should just get a girl and stop. Brock needs to stop flirting.
Richie: He's too perfect, nobody's perfect but god. And Richie is as perfect as god it makes me mad.
Paul: He's really abusive and hurts his pokemon.
Max: That little know it all!!!
Some characters are full of problems!!

And the fact that the characters pretend like their family doesn't exist. Like I never hear them say "Hey my dad said this", "that voice is so beautiful it reminds me of my mom's lullabies", etc. when will they start mentioning their familes!?

So wait a minute, you think it's wrong for characters to have personality quirks and have problems? What would you rather have, everyone be boring and one dimensional and all have the same boring monotone iterations with each other? You do realize this is a Tv show?

No no I'm just saying their sometimes messed up. But I know it's a TV show and it's interesting. But I'm writing down the characters I hate and why I don't like them

Heh. That's a pretty long list. And what about Ash? He has more faults and personalites than the rest of them.

My biggest complain about the series is the rushed training of the Pokemon. There are Ash's starters who has slow and good development but the reserves get crappy and rushed felt evolutions that it's just crazy. Then there is Iris's Pokemon who gets little to none at times but when she does it over does it to a point that she doesn't really have to train them as much as Ash does. Cilan's Pokemon are a mix. There is Stunfish that never seems to be used, Pansage who gets thrown around and Crustle who trolls thrashed all the best battles. I would have liked this series more if they have done a little better with all of the Pokemon. I mean what's the hurry?

The fact they change some characters' personalities.

Ingo: got changed from an unhappy soul to a happy person that's full of emotion.
Emmet: Got changed from a happy soul to a happy person that's full of emotion.
Skyla: Got changed from a kind person to a big jerk.

Most of the gym leaders and game characters got changed. I wish they kept their personalities.

And the pretending the family doesn't exist deal. Lack of sibling appearences (what happened to Chili?!).


The voice acting: It's good most of the time but the dub ruined Cress. I mean I thought I was gonna hear a calm, childish, geeky voice from Cress (similar to Silver the Hedgehog from the sonic series) but instead we got a mature voice that makes him sound like a 30 year old british man even though he's fifteen. It made hate his dub actor. Recycling old scenes from older episodes (like Chili hugging Pansear for example looks just like James and Chimecho). Lack of hygeine scenes or fanservice scenes: girls get their share (like swimsuit scenes or shirtless scenes or underwear scenes) I recall seeing Ash shower in one episode... so why can't they have showering in newer episodes? Just the top half is perfect. And unknown scenes that leaves questioning (like Chili screaming for example I found it weird it's like he did it for no reason and Cilan with his vest off, why is it off?).

My biggest complaint about the series (or more specifically, the BW saga) is that Ash spends little time training his Pokemon. I honestly wish he'd be more hands-on like he was in DP, but that's a thing of the past apparently. I guess I just got accustomed to him actually working hard on improving his Pokemon. :x

I hate how Ash is still ten. I don't know, it's just gotten to the point where it's unrealistic. So he was ten in Kanto. He's still ten in Unova? However much he has 'powers' (of sorts), it's still pretty unbelievable for someone to go through 5 regions--taking note of all the Gym battles and random things Ash & Co. does--in less than a year. Sure, the younger audience probably wouldn't notice, much less give two shits, but it's something us older fans do notice and sometimes even are bothered by.

Also, it might sound overly general, but I hate how the show seems to let a lot of its opportunities go down the drain. I can't be arsed right now to give concrete examples, but there are a lot of things in the show that could've been ten times more epic. I genuinely love the show as it is right now, but I of course wouldn't mind it being a little bit better.

For me?

I dislike how Ash always wins with unevolved pokemon all the time. Sure it's alright to do that in the first 2-3 gyms, but in no way shape or form is it acceptable in my eyes to pull something like that for the 7th and 8th gyms+the league. This has happened in EVERY series except for the final sunnyshore battle where Ash used both fully evolved starters and the gym match didn't feel cheap or rigged.

To be fair, Ash won the 8th badge in Johto using Snorlax, Pikachu and Charizard. Only Pikachu was not an evolved pokemon.

Anyway, i wouldn't say that Ritchie was perfect. Ritchie was shown to be a more discliplined version of Ash. However he was shown losing in the Kanto league and he isn't exactly a pokemon master. Ash would likely defeat him in a 6 on 6 battle.

Originally Posted by Grave-E

Originally Posted by Gliscor'd

And yeah, Jasmine was incredibly bland in the anime. In the games she's supposed to be this insecure and shy Gym leader, in the anime she just has the same generic adult woman personality that any filler character has.

Clair got hit pretty badly when she was given a Plain Jane personallity too, perhaps even moreso than Jasmine. Why on earth they decided to turn the arrogant, bitchy Gym Leader into....that, I'll never understand. Talk about your polar opposites.

Yeah same goes for Skyla she was nice and innocent but in the anime she was just lazy, arrogent, and selfish. Most of the gym leaders are changed.

My biggest complaint is that Ash and his world didn't mature as we did. Instead it is reseted anytime a new region comes up.
If I had a hand in this matter, I would have thrown out the current storywriters and instead recruited the storywriters from the company Banpresto (which are part of Namco/Bandai), which are known for the Super Robot Wars games.
They are exellent in what they do.

My big complain right now about the series is Iris. I like that she's currently getting focus but everytime I'm watching one of her episodes I get disappointed with the outcome. I had been watching Pokemon since the beginning and I used to love watching the girls on the show grow to be powerful, but with Iris it was shove an episode here with her and you got months of miracles that it took the others girls seasons to do. I know she's experienced but Axew was my hope to see her train it and see it grow more than it has. Take this week's episode for example. Snivy did a wonderful job against her opponent. I was happy for a win. But I wasn't happy that no move was even learned here. Not only that but I felt that Iris's Emonga wasn't even an issue over Ash's Pokemon which wasn't hers and it made me wonder if she does better using and helping other trainers Pokemon than her own. It's a strange theory but I hope things start to change for Iris but it's coming close to the end so I don't know.

They should change the age of ash because the series feels old and then ashes friends are always a girl he meets in the first town then the guy he's with is always a gym leader i think they should change it up

I never liked how the writing for the dub was handled. Before I get criticized for such an unoriginal and subjective opinion, it's actually for a different reason other than the voices themselves, or the collection of overused puns. I never liked, even in the original series, how lazy the dub writers would be in perfecting the way sentences fit the mouth flap. The did a great job with Team Rocket's motto, and how it had to be varied at times, but as for the main cast and COtD's, I became sick of hearing "as well" and "..., you see?", etc. a million times, just to fill the remaining gap of the lip flap. Isn't there anything ELSE besides those generic phrases that could be said, all while still translating the Japanese dialogue? I just feel like using those phrases really takes away from the originality of the character and kind of blends all of them together to make them sound overly polite and repetitive.

And that, despite my undying love and hopeless devotion to Pokemon, is my biggest complaint.