I like all the side projects they've done like Twilight Wings where they get to flex a little outside the box of the main series. And I don't think Ash will ever be gone for real. However I could see him moving to a more secondary role as sort of mentor while Goh takes center stage. It took ages but they did finally let go of needing the Rocket trio to be in every single episode sometime in Best Wishes.

I thought when Journeys started it meant they would continue that series for multiple generations as the region traveling obviously allows for it, but yeah…I sorta feel like this might be the end of Ash as the main character? Not much else for Ash left to do if he takes down the world champ. Goh is as strong a candidate as there's ever been to take over the main character role and he represents the Go side of the franchise, which is about as important as the mainline entries these days.

I kinda figured they would speed through the early part already covered by the original, Brotherhood did the same thing.

52 episodes still a little tight for a 300 chapter series but not a disaster unless they make it one, lol.

Is it fair to say CloverWorks just didn't have the resources to handle this series? Because I feel like they should have had it animated at least through Goldy Pond before the manga was done its run. I'm looking around at this series' peers (for example AssClass was same length and essentially same volume sales) and I feel like they definitely should have gotten more out the door while the manga was ongoing.

I know it's not the same situation or whatever bit it's galling to me that Shokugeki no friggin Soma got a full (albeit not well animated) adaptation and this didn't.

I feel like any other option would have been better than torching the damn series on the way out but it is what it is.

Yeah it's not overreacting at all. They literally hacked a quarter of the entire series out. I know they figured they wouldn't do more seasons (who knows why not because by all indications it's a solid seller and there's the Amazon adaptation on the way, etc) bit if it came down to it, would have been much better to just end the anime after the second arc and leave the rest not adapted.

Splatoon 3 was a nice surprise, I figured that would be a one game per console series.

Picking mine up at 9pm tonight, yeeeeah I booked next week off work for this lol.

As I've said before I have no issue with Let's Go unless I see these sorts of changes in the next game. On it's own it's no worse than the countless other Pokemon spinoffs in this mega franchise. It's not disrupting the generational cycle (ie Gen 8 is coming next year, three years after Sun/Moon). If this can win over some Go players to give the main series a chance then good for them.

Weird to me that Alph is a costume and not an echo fighter. I guess because there's literally no difference versus not much difference?