Good God, what a faggot. You can still love a franchise while being critical of the direction it's going in.
I'm sure most Pokemon fans still remember the day when the 4KIDS actors were "replaced", therefore kicking off SOVA, but I feel like I'm the only one who still remembers the shitstorm than ensued in 2013 when the 16th movie was coming out. Everyone got excited for it because Mewtwo was announced to be in it, literally, that's the
only reason people were talking about that film. Like I believe it was from February to sometime in April where people were gushing on about it because
omigawd it's Mewtwo!!!, but then a second trailer came out and revealed Mewtwo had a feminine voice, and everyone
lost their goddamn minds. That was also around the time the Corocoro Mega Evolution leak came out, and no one wanted to believe it was real. There were still people defending it, willing to give it a chance, and if you know where to look you can find fans of whom they called "Newtwo", but there's kind of a reason why it's the second-lowest grossing Pokemon movie. No one was happy with it, and it got to the point where the screenwriter locked his Twitter account from the bombardment of messages he got.
We pretty much didn't get the answer until just this year as to
why they made that decision (they didn't have the rights to Mewtwo as a character, it was with Takeshi Shudo's estate), but it had soured a lot of people's opinions of the anime's direction. Yeah, Best Wishes already had done that, and it was one of the last criticisms of BW before the Unova League, but the damage had been done. People say XY went in a better direction, but the fanbase was long-since splintered, and it never got better. The AmourShippers are among some of the worst, most obnoxious shippers in the Pokemon fandom, and the heel-face turn of the fanbase towards Alain gave everyone whiplash (and me lots of lulz because these were the same people who
praised him as a character during the Mega Evolution specials) when he "stole" the championship from Ash. And then the new art-style turned a lot of people off, and I dunno if there were any real controversies for the Sun and Moon anime season, but my point still stands: The Pokemon fanbase was
always shitty,
always broken.
This is just another day, another year of Pokemon controversy, but this is definitely trumping the anime fanbase's chimp outs. It was just a matter of time, if you ask me.
TL;DR about the state of the Pokemon community:
, but they're probably the same jackasses who threw a fit when Ash lost the Kalos League. The irony is truly incomprehensible to autists.
