![]() The social media boom, plus the general improvements XY made from BW gave it a lot of fans XY was definitely the right place-right time series Like I personally don’t care for the Team Flare Arc after the league but I wouldn’t say it was bad in the slightest Like even though it has its weaker points if I have to grade it XY doesn’t go below a 5/10 in anything (plot, character, pacing, etc) where you can say some series do fall below that line It doesn’t matter about the positives as the negatives weigh them down more It’s like saying they all have 5 positives but XY has like 1 negative while the others have 3+ negatives. So when you can point to negatives for other series that don’t really apply to XY it’s easy to hold it higher JN had production issues that had them have recaps and such plus the co-lead with Goh stuff XY consistently looked great, had what feels like the least amount of “filler” episodes, had at least solid arcs for Ash Clemont Serena and Bonnie, decent rivals, a supporting cast, etcĪs even though I don’t think Sun and Moon had problems it definitely got backlash from the art style change alone let alone the formula changeīW was a soft reboot so it had a negative response from existing fans ![]() I have my personal thoughts on XY, some positive some negativeīut I can say from a more objective/critics point of view XY has the least problems of any series Preferences: some might just generally like characters like Alain over a character like Paul, which I think is just a preference thing than an objective thing, and this applies to everything naturally 5) Least amount of Problems Romantic side plot: Serena's crush on Ash at least from what I noticed has its own community with shipping, and I can see it bringing in a lot of girl viewers as romance is a common drawing point for young girls plus it’s a general thing people can like Visuals: people loved how XY looked, the art style plus the animation and 3D cameraĪpproach: generally the most shonen of the Pokémon series and when stuff like shonen is a big hit amongst a similar demographic it gets love for it like Ash being more “mature”, him being more of a leader, etc General stuff that some like but I don’t want to say is a main reason or is big enough to give its own point Like I saw a vid where someone who never watched Pokemon was reacting to Ash-Greninja like there's something there 4) Miscellaneous stuff ![]() Where XY was at a time that was fortunate enough that stuff is hard to lose and copyright was better understood and etc so it was able to build up views and likes and etc Not everything was digitized, and some of the stuff that was is now gone whether a website taken down, or copyright on YouTube video etc as not everything was just on Serebii and Bulbapedia So when clips from this time are shared they were more widespread then before and since it’s more modern its less likely to be goneįor example it’s hard to get stuff from OS-DP as it was just the byproduct of being older Social Media been around for awhile before XY in 2013īut around that time was also a pretty big boom as stuff like YouTube were getting to the point that people were YouTubers, Vine was alive, twitter and Facebook were still the general share thoughts platforms and etc I mention this as people are then using XY as their basis whether it’s the constant comparison to SM specifically the art style or that they never watched Original series to DP/BW so it has that affect that when you’re watching something older some things don’t look as good since it is older especially for younger viewers 3) Social Media I’m constantly surprised by the number of fans that have only watched XY or started with XYĬlearly, some of it is an age thing, when they were in that general age range XY was on TV so it was naturally their first seriesīut also for one reason or another the way XY was presented got a lot more people wanting to check it out, I don’t know for sure but apparently XY brought in a lot of viewers and it can’t be just the regular wave of kids watching Pokémon for the first time Some actually use it to put down other series which is definitely not goodĪnd some it’s the only thing they mention which over-saturates it in the grand scheme of Pokémon discussion which can also be annoying when out of 15 posts 12 are XY stuff you can get sick of it 2) XY is the only or one of the few watched by some ![]() There are definitely some fans out there that praise it so much that it can get annoying So why is there such a divide among fans? With XY generally being seen as one of the best from a more ranking critic review viewpoint (look at IMDb scores for example) XY seems to be a fan favorite series of all the Pokémon series ![]() Something I’ve had thoughts on ever since I’ve seen more of the Anipoke community and it’s an interesting situation ![]()
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