I have no issues with it aside from Serena not doing anything with her goal for 50-60 episodes and I guess Corni's small arc (?) that took screentime for the other characters to develop. Worse case was Serena's aside from her personality development that had to be added on as her status of shipping bait. A few iffy decisions or bad executions but I don't think the writing was bad. I like Shauna's character but she was barely a rival. Rivals except for Shouta sucked (I don't consider Alan or Sanpei as a rival). Main battles were really great with stunning animation and how the Pokémon used their moves. So overall I rate it 8/10 - not quite enough water to put it down to 7.8. Oh, and Greninja's release was the biggest Deus Ex Machina ever. Plus Serena not really getting any better or worse in Performances was kind of a let down. I wasn't really a big Amour fan, so those moments weren't the most exciting of moments. Only thing I didn't like about these bits was the end of the TF arc being kinda stale, considering that Squishy and Z2 could've actually saved the world the moment they stopped being mind-controlled. Oh and the end scene of ME IV is good just for how no matter what emotion I'm feeling I can relate to one of the characters in it. Great animation, great execution, great way to bring the gym leaders into the mix, primals and ryaquayquay doing stuff in ME III was awesome, also giant rock-boss all the way. Ok, moving on, Alan was awesome, Manon was cute, Lysandre was much better than his game counterpart, kirakira was a great character song, Ash-Greninja was pretty cool, XY&Z was a wonderful opening and Shota was pretty relatable.īut what I love about this season was the Mega OVAs and TF arc. That's enough for me to like this series.