@Gravy-Kun:
If CGI is to be allowed, let it be a 2D vs CG plotline.
And I demand my Mickey and Bugs crossover.
To me Pokémon would've been fresh had they not kept using Ash for EVERY season. Have a new protagonist, give him a Pikachu (for the sake of having a series mascot) and hey the series is new again. New hero with a new attitude and character, people won't be saying "yeah… I'm gonna skip this episode again."
I have to say, I disagree, they couldn't replace Ash, I absolutely hate it when shows do that, replace the main cast - Would Dragon Ball have been as good if they'd simply replaced Goku & Vegeta with two generic shonen characters.
For example there's a new series of Beyblade out,
that's based of a new beyblade manga, but It is not related to the previous show in any way. Then .. Umm … Why bring it back, if it's not Beyblade, it's not the thing we liked, so we're just supposed to accept all our favourite characters have been replaced by some generic shonen lads ?
NO.
YuugiOh is much loved, an amazing series, but people feel that with Pokemon, they are losing their love for it, because they aren't the same shows anymore, they've swapped around so many characters, replaced & recast so many one-shot & long-term characters that for some people, it's just not the show that they got into at the start ...