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Does The Original Pokémon Hold Up?

I want an animated adaption of Pokemon Special/Pokemon Adventures!

As a massive fan of the game before the anime dropped, I was pretty disappointed by the story ultimately. I remember watching TV for show that I didn't care just so I'd get to see the commercial for the show pre airing, but by the end of the first season I'd regularly skip episode. Ash seemed to stubbornly refuse to become a better trainer so I guess it make sense that he would eventually get knocked down at the end. But as a kid I would have liked a story of someone slowly improving himself and ultimately triumphing more than the story of a buffoon who constantly get lucky and win until he doesn't. Ash not evolving Pikachu always ticked me off, and whenever he'd face any sort of challenge I'd always think "just evolve Pikachu!". I didn't realize at the time that this was done for marketing reason, so it just seemed like Ash was just intent on self sabotaging, which didn't really make his failure stick.

Maybe if the show felt more like it was "in" on Ash being kinda a loser and it was more of a wacky comedy I'd have liked it more. But as is, its not even interesting in the way the first Yugioh season is with its complete ignorance of the rule of the game.

The golden rule that “Ash can't win a Pokémon tournament” has already arguably been broken when you consider the fact that Ash is the champion of the Alola League.

the producers wanted to cater to Western fan base to get more money by removing things Japanese audiences have no issue with (You can take a guess).

How can you say that and not consider the fact that Satoshi is the champion of the Orange League?

Yeah, it's really messed up how the Japanese staff stopped having the characters eat riceballs and gave them donuts instead

or at least a return to the older series formats.

I haven't watched Pokemon properly for almost two decades, so what I'm about to say might be wrong. About 10ish years ago i was at a friends house and he put Pokemon, Ash was travelling with these two companions(a girl and a boy), Brock was no longer there. In the episode someone was teaching Ash about different elemental types, way back when I first watched the show he learnt that, so I was left with the impression that once in awhile the show has a soft reboot, likely to bring up to speed new fan.

Well, let me help u lose that tick then. lol U wouldn't like it if someone forced YOU to change, would u? More so if that change forced u into a physical form with dif abilities that are dif from ur own now would u? Even if u said yes, Pikachu to this DAY does not wish to evo and the fact remains it'd be MORE incompetent as a Trainer to IGNORE what ur Pokemon wants as they are living creatures with a will and life of their own. If Ash FORCED Pikachu to evo, that Pokemon would have LEFT him, guarantee u that. The only reason why Pikachu became fond of Ash is becus he realized how much Ash loves Pokemon and Pikachu too considering he risked his LIFE trying to protect him from a flock of Spearow. So while it may have ticked u off in the past, i hope it doesn't anymore. That said, I agree, he was way to cocky, lucky, stubborn and thankfully, he did grow (SLOWLY) as a person and pokemon trainer. The Ash of now is not the same as the Ash of old. lol So u did get what u wanted in the end, just took a long time for that to happen.

It's basically the scenario with the transition from DP to BW where Ash preformed really well at the Sinnoh league really well at the end of DP and then was easily loosing against a new trainer early on.