I am so bitter you can never believe this feeling.
Anniversary episodes/movies/whatever that came out is meant to celebrate, not to use it as a vehicle of merchandise or ego. The Doctor Who anniversary under Moffat is egocentric I feel nothing from the Doctor Who I know. The Power Rangers anniversary season is dreadful because it felt so lazy and disrespectful to the past seasons when the Sentai is right there.
Not every anniversary is so bad. The Persona series celebrated their 20th with the release of Persona 5. Digimon celebrated theirs with a new anime series called Tri and movies. Even YGO got that right with bringing nostalgia back. Even Super Sentai did it much better, especially since more actors and actresses got more interested in it.
Nostalgia is not bad. In fact, it could be used as a vehicle to get the money you lost.
The fact this movie would just be another run-of-the-mill Pokeani movie (gorgeously animated but bland story) is upsetting for a movie that is meant to celebrate Pokemon.
We have been freaking rickrolled.
Misty, Brock, and Gary deserved better than this. They deserve to be celebrated with Ash and Pikachu. Every traveling partner and rival deserve better than this.
Not with nobodies that we have no connection.
It's awful.
You can make an AU origin story without throwing out the beloved characters. Hell, even Power Rangers got this right because at least they are mentioned. Through videos true, but still cameos or references at least.
It is true that Misty, Brock, and Gary haven't mentioned since but considering how trolling the writers on board the Pokeani is... I just don't know what to feel about this.
But to think they are doing this only for game promotions rather than do celebration of a longrunning series that people love is insulting.
On one hand, I went back to my collection of Pokeani. We still got Pokeani but not so much celebration or fanfare of the original cast.
I am just so bitter.
I really have no choice but to watch this because precisely because I have to see what they are going to do.
You really should know better, Pokeani writers.
Now let me think of the Pokeani Movie 20 could have been.
Well... Sinnoh Confirmed at least...
I got Persona 5 at last!
I would like to comment that the Phantom Thieves are in no way evil. Yes, they are stealing and on the vestiges of society due to the rigidity of Japanese society. They are ultimately responsible for their own actions just as much as their targets.
The Phantom Thieves themselves are clearly a kind bunch and they are more like Robin Hood figures.
I never got the feeling of brainwashing. They actually talked to the Shadows after the battle and only took the physical shape of their distorted desires. In fact, their targets certainly took the time to deliberate in revealing their crimes just like how the IT did the same in their Social Links. I never once got the feeling that they literally turned into good people; instead, they simply announced their crimes to the world. While remorseful of their crimes, I never once got the feeling they turned into good people. Hell, we never even see them turn over a new leaf like how we saw Adachi did in Ultimax. We know they turn themselves in but it was more forced out of them now that the source of their crimes was forcibly taken from them. The people may not be even aware of the Phantom Thieves' doings but they were forcibly confronting themselves in the face of their heart.
Edit: I understand why people see it as brainwashing. Even in canon, characters point out it's tantamount to brainwashing. The Phantom Thieves were still doubtful of their actions even when swayed by the public. The writing allows both sides to stand toe-to-toe with simply the idea of justice being what they can do right.
Maybe to me, it's just that the Shadow returned to their original and talked into the ear about regret.
I still need to research more of Carl Jung and his pupils' to furthur my understanding.
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