Ash Ketchum Prepares To Pass Torch As New Pokémon Anime Series Gets Air Date

Why all anime characters look the same nowadays? > _ <

Very good beautiful picture.

Maybe now after all these years, Ash can go to school and get an education.

Ash is already 35+ years old if counted since years 1996.
He is already an adult man.
Let him get retired and the new youngster take over his place.

Il miss him but it’s time for a change

I wonder if there's gonna be a huge drop in viewership and interest now that he's gone? Obviously in the beginning everyone will tune in out of curiosity and hype, I'm talking long term.

@Bass_X0 He DID go to school in Alola.

Meh wont be the same without Ash so no interest to me but I'm an old head.

I would only like it if its like the pokemon red shorts, those where amazing.

Cool, passing of the torch.

Great to see a female protagonist, and with such a cute design. Distinct, yet basic. I really like it. Although Risa from Pokemon power of us would be fitting as well.

I hope her pikachu will be Eevee or Sprigatito

No offence, but compare to older characters from the series, such as Ash, Misty, and Brock, these two new characters look really generic. I have seen one-time-characters in the anime that had a more outstanding design. They could easily be just crowd and background characters.

Outstayed his welcome, but I'm not ready for him to leave 😭 Wonder what they're going to do about Pikachu, since he's the mascot.

About the new characters, strange that they're not wearing the academy uniforms. I like their designs, though.

Ngl, and no hate, But compared to the orginal anime, heck, even the anime’s we have had up till now, they look like basic trainer NPC’s, you know, the one you might try to avoid but there just staring into the distance till a trainer walks by lol.

So he finally caught 'em all, huh?

@steely_pete Good question. Definitely people will tune in out of curiosity, but if the character doesn't stick like Ash did then there will be a drop, we'll just have to see

Still think that the best way to end his journey would be a flash forward of Gold/Silver protagonist coming up to challenge Pokemon Master Ash.

I really don’t know how they’re carrying this on without Ash.

To be honest they should have ended Ash's arc ages a go even the video games have moved on with new main characters they should have done doctor who have new main character each time.

The problem with Ash he got very annoying as show progress also he wasn't really good most of time was friendship and therefore I wouldn't miss him I miss Team Rocket more than I miss Ash. I wish they did focus on Red instead hes much better trainer than Ash.

@The-Chosen-one
The ones vaguely based of the adventures manga right?

How do I even watch this show on day one, with subtitles? Netflix only offers the English VO.

About time. Ash needs to go back to school anyways.

@Deemo37

I said it wrong, i named it pokemon red lol but i meant pokemon Origins.

Should be passing off the Torchic.

@Ulysses you don’t. You wait for someone to fansub the episode after a few days and download it.