Top Ten Reasons the Pokemon Anime Sucks

The Top Ten
1 Ash never wins a league

I mean even if he is the protagonist he is still shown to be the average pokemon master there and when he is told of this fact from his friend, who always wears purple, he gets ticked off. Can't eve take the truth

This is worse than anything because it renders everything that happens before it in that region moot.

This just gives the message that hard work never pays off.

Why ash lost to Alain despite having type advantage

2 No plot

I don't see how wanting to become a Pokemon master is a plot.

This is by far the worst part of it all

3 Team Rocket is annoying
4 Filler everywhere

Oh Arceus. I rather watch Naruto fillers than the lame boring formulaic and pointless episodes of this anime. At least the fillers in Naruto and Bleach can be interesting sometimes and some of its arcs connects to its canon in one way or another like they're prequels or side stories.

5 Serena is annoying
6 Awful Voice Acting (Tpci Dub)

The sound of Ash's latin spanish voice is making me homicidal. Pikachu this, Pikachu that. Mix it with Ash's childish and obnoxious loud never growing personality and you get a migraine for days.

It just keeps getting worse with this show ever since they got rid of the original English voice actors.

Why can't you be conventional and release a subtitled version with Japanese audio?

Ash Voice by Sarah is Getting Worse Since DP-BW now it's in the Current Run.

7 Recycled episodic plots

I agree, it's super formulaic which is the main reason why I stopped watching the anime. Ash goes to a new region, meets a group of partners (or occasionally reunite with older partners), acquires new pokemon, beats gym leaders while being disturbed by team rocket along the way, loses league, go to a new region without using his old pokemon, repeat. The manga is much better if you're looking for a decent storyline

It's literally the same thing every region they go to! Ash always starts out as a newbie in each region, he rarely uses some of his old Pokemon in the newer series, there are TONS OF POINTLESS FILLER EPISODES, and Ash always loses the Pokemon League! Pokemon has established itself as the Phineas and Ferb of anime, because it is so recycled and repetitive.

Every episode, movie, plotline is basically the same. I know it's just Pokemon, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to think of a different, interesting plot that doesn't involve Team Rocket or some evil team ruining something, and then the incompetent twerps save the day. Absolutely idiotic.

70% of the episodes revolve around three plots:
-this person/Pokemon can't do something properly
-this person/Pokemon has become lost/separated
-two sides who aren't getting along
It's the same thing over and over again, just with different faces.

8 Characters booted off the show

I don't understand why Brock and Misty had to leave, but Team Rocket had to stay. I'm getting tired of them, so annoying.

You guys don't like the Pokémon anime because Ash and Team Rocket have appeared in every episode, but then get angry when they are booted off the show?

9 Lack of continuity

YES, Pickachu won against a Dragonite but lost to the lv5 starter pokemon of unova

10 Jessie/James appear in every episode

UHG and when they do appear, it's the same thing with the stupid and repetetive intro and the blasting off again. and they are 80 percent of all of the episodes, it just makes me want to rip out my hair

At least in sun and moon they do they own thing come on they are the best characters

Actually, since the Black and White series, they don't appear in every episode.

Yep the worst part of this show

The Contenders
11 Not knowing why Ash even wants to be a Pokemon master

Ash really has no development whatsoever, and the worst part is that this isn't a series like Mario, where they aren't focusing on developing the series-they do that in Pokemon, and we're still stuck with the same generic character in every episode.

Usually, when I see characters with goals, there's a solid motive, reasoning or history behind the goal. This makes me want to cheer for that character. With Ash I have no clue why he wants to be a Pokemon master. I can't really care for the guy.

Yeah mario may have the same save the princess plot line but they do their best to develope the series

I honestly saw more characterization on Spongebob than almost everyone in the Pokemon show.

12 Serena is overrated

Yesss. I hate how even now people are like - Serena was the best, hope she'll return soon!
But for what? At least other characters gave Ash some nice battles, Serena is worthless though. They just want her for a stupid Amourshipping stuff.
Even though I hate her, she's only ruining post-Pokemon XY fandom, not the entire anime.

You mean negatively overrated, right? She is not that bad

She is bad, but she is just one character so she doesn’t necessarily ruin the show for me. However, the new characters from the gen6 seasons though...

"Overrated" is more of a subjective term

13 Lack of character focus

I've never heard of a series whereas the majority of the episodes don't revolve around the main characters. Your standard episode revolves around some problem which has nothing to do with the main characters, their goals or the lifestyle of being trainers.

14 Brock left

The new characters are boring and the new animation style sucks. Also I liked when ash's hair had pointy ends better than this stupid new one with round ends, he also got a lot dumber because he goes to school

His running joke was funny for like the first three times. *annoyed*

Best character in the anime by far.

15 Type matchups are meaningless

This makes so little sense. For example, Hapu's Mudsdale is immune to electric attacks, but when it gets doused in water and the water is electrocuted by Pikachu's Gigavolt Havoc, it becomes a KO.
Or, they choose to use Z-Moves which shouldn't be very effective, but it's effective anyway.

Thunder Armor!

16 Misty left

I have to laugh at these retarded Misty haters, Ash might of been the body but Misty & Brock were the Heart & Soul.

Oh shut up or do you like bullying fans of when it started, you wouldn't have the show.

17 It's childish

The main reason why I loathe this "anime" (notice the quotations? Because this shouldn't qualify as an anime. It's a disgrace).

They should do something for 12+!
They have Pokespe (Pokemon Adventures/Pokemon Special)!
Why they didn't make Pokemon Special anime?

They should be faithful to the games. The games have better plot.

What you guys hate kids? Child abusers confirmed

18 Ash Works with the Same Type of Pokemon

Fire/grass/water/regional bird/Pikachu...

They do starters to make them more popular

19 True villains rarely appear

They would be better if Team Rocket didn't appear, it just ruins them and gives TR all attention but, what about other villains? They don't get character because, of them.
Good thing we have the movies though.

Team rocket ruins it

20 Ash ditched Charizard

How boring would it be sweeping every gym and half the league though

We all loved charizard

I hate charizard

21 Does not follow video game canon

"Anime and games are different"

Yeah but it's still Pokemon. The anime is a game adaptation not trying to be its own thing. This is like if the harry potter movies contradict the important rules and lore of the books (oh wait they sometimes do but not as lorebreaking as Pokemon)

Brush, anime and games don't relate to each other. If that's what you're whining about, go watch something else.

Exactly! They have to make up a whole new, uninteresting plot? The games' plots were better.

22 Dawn left
23 Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy's new designs
24 It's boring

I find it really uninteresting. The plot is the same all the way through.

Gets boring easily just...so many episodes

25 Zero progression in the mainstay characters

Ash and Team Rocket are pretty much rehashed blanks.

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