Things About the Pokemon Anime that Need to Be Changed

Besides the fact that this kid should have aged long ago, he's just so generic. He never even accomplishes his goal. Say what you will about Naruto. He became the Hokage! Even Yukiteru Amano won the survival game, and I don't like him either. Ash has the same personality he's always had: a hot-blooded youth with ambitious dreams. That's it. Let's create a new main character and follow them on their journey. Give them identifiable flaws, a wholesome attitude, and morals we can agree on.

We all know Ash's goal in Pokémon: to be a Pokémon Master, meaning he wants to be the very best like no one ever was. Sadly, after over seven hundred episodes of the same thing, most people are getting sick of it. He hasn't won a Pokémon League since the Orange Islands, and the storyline keeps repeating. Go to a new region, meet some characters to follow on the journey, catch some Pokémon, fight gyms, some filler episodes, and then the Pokémon League. That's Pokémon in a nutshell.

We need a different storyline! It's the same thing every season!

They don't have to be like Ash's companions, who are always at his side, but make them interesting. Like in the games, you had characters like Hau or Gladion. They were both great characters, but they didn't have to constantly be around the player for us to like them. They had their own goals and ideas that set them apart. The most we get in the anime are little quirks and stereotyped characters. Let's have a deeper look into how they became this way and make us want to see them again.

These fight scenes aren't the most interesting thing in the world. Attack, dodge, attack, hit, rinse, and repeat. Make it more intense or do something with the environment. Make the Pokémon sound like they're in pain. Some of them are getting hit with electricity, fire, and psychic attacks. Make it look or feel like the creature is in pain.

I agree with this. Take a look at Ash's league battles against Paul and Alain. Those had awesome fight animation!

To be fair, XY improved that. The battles before seemed like PowerPoint slideshows.

Instead of Team Rocket (who somehow always have money to build machines) constantly blasting off and coming back, let's create some stronger villains.

If you want to make them comedic for kids, that's fine. Mojo Jojo is a great example of being evil yet charming. Or, if you want a purely comedic villain that's still sympathetic, make them like Jack Spicer from Xiaolin Showdown.

Even Red in Pokemon Origins lost to Giovanni and had to learn from that failure.

There are actually numerous threatening villains in the Pokémon anime. But the one who is really dangerous and scares me the most to this day is Lysandre, the man responsible for the most dangerous crisis in the Pokémon world, known as the Kalos Crisis.

When I first saw it on TV, I couldn't believe it. The way Lumiose City was destroyed and even the lives of friends were lost (though it was only Clembot, he was still a good friend of Clemont), it haunted me. I couldn't believe that the Pokémon anime could go so dark. Not to mention that Kalos was deeply affected, with those dangerous vines still growing from nowhere.

So, in my opinion, the Pokémon show doesn't need more dangerous villains than Lysandre if it doesn't want to haunt its viewers.

I'm not saying rated R or PG-13, but look at something like Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's a fun action show with fantasy elements, but it's mature enough for kids and doesn't treat them like idiots. It appealed to both children and adults because of how smart the writing is. If Pokémon had something like that, it could be a million times better. Like the Marowak and Cubone episode in Pokémon Origins. That was a mature episode that dealt with death and moving on after loss.

Make the pacing not too slow or too fast. Even the original series had problems with pacing. Twenty episodes to get to one town that, in the games, isn't very far away. Don't bore your audience with filler episodes and mess up the pacing.

Don't make it about the same morals or problems. Like how Ash kept freeing his Pokémon like Butterfree, Primeape, Lapras, and Pidgeot. Or how about the it's wrong to treat Pokémon like tools episodes? There are so many of those! We get it! Fish are friends, not food! And how many times do we have to see Ash losing in the Pokémon League?

These last two are nitpicks, but I think they need to be said. Does Ash or anyone in the anime use anything except Poké Balls? What about Ultra Balls? Those are better. How about using potions during a battle? They never use those either.