The Jouto Saga is generally met with a lot of hatred. Many people see it as three seasons' worth of crappy, terrible episodes, and is regarded as the series' low point. It seems that the word Jouto is almost a curse word around the Pokemon Community these days, and a great number of fans consider it to be the epitome of bad animation.

However, this thread isn't about the bad parts of Jouto. What I want to do is see what people think was good about the seasons. Here's my list:

-The seasons had some of the best music. The background music created for the league was some of the catchiest of the series (my favorite is the piece that includes an instrumental of OK!), and the opening and ending themes of the seasons were some of my favorite of the series. OK! was awesome, and Whiteberry's remix of the original Mezase Pokemon Master was a favorite of mine as well. On the dub side, the theme song to "Johto Journeys" remains, to this day, my favorite dub opening theme.

-The introduction of Sonansu. The little guy still makes me laugh after all these years. I also really liked Waninoko a lot.

-The movies released during the Jouto saga were great. While I'm not such a fan of the Serebii one, I did enjoy the Entei and Latios / Latias movies immensely.

-The Jouto saga was actually Takeshi's most productive, as he caught / released / watched a good deal of his pokemon evolve than in any other saga.

-The Jouto saga introduced the two-part Gym Leader battles. Before, it was custom to arrive in the city of a Gym Leader, get to know him/her, and then battle him/her, all in the space of one episode. However, beginning with the third Gym Leader in Jouto, these important characters were showcased in two episodes--one episode to introduce them, and another to have the actual battle. We never would have seen, say, the characterization that Yanagi (Pryce) got if his appearance was condensed down to just one episode, that's for sure.

-The saga did have some good fillers--"Forest Grumps," "The Wayward Wobbuffet," and "Address Unown," just to name a few.

-The switch from traditional cel animation to computer animation made around the time of "Here's Lookin' At You, Elekid." The much-needed boost in animation budget finally made the show look like it was made within the last decade.

-While the final league itself was problematic, the battles in the Silver Conference (mainly Satoshi vs. Shigeru and Satoshi vs. Hazuki) were excellent.

So, what else was good about the season? Please post your praises about the saga here, and leave the bashing to the other nine million Jouto-bashing threads that are out there.