What would make you watch?

[firepokemon]

Hmm as one of the people that do watch the anime and will continue to watch the anime. I still like it, sure its not exactly original and it still centers around Ash. But to me its done enough for me that it is still watchable. The addition of pokemon contests, more bad guys than solely Team Rocket. More interaction with other trainers and rivals. Characters that continue to recur throughout the series. Its these additions that have helped me continue watching.

Pokemon continues to rate in the top 10 anime series in Japan, thus with ratings like that I suspect to not see major changes anytime soon. One could moan about it and thus not watch. One could be unhappy but take-up fanfiction to write stories on what they would liked to see or one can keep watching and be happy.

[Dark-San]

Pokemon continues to rate in the top 10 anime series in Japan.

Goodness please tell me again that the above information is not true. >.<;

The problem with Pokemon is that basically people outgrow it. I am done and finished off with Pokemon, with the exceptions of the games that I am still playing with. With the outside global perception of 'Pokemon = childishness', I would only expect the downward falling watching trend to continue.

Secondly, Japanese producers are only interested in their home market. If what firepokemon had said is true, there would not be any reason for them to change the story plot soon. Advertising sales from the TV series in the Japanese morning primetime should have been stable for years now. Hence, changing the story plot would be adventurous and risky. We have also have to keep in mind that people in the past centuries has always been resistant to changes. Any sales outside Japan would only be treated as more of a profit surplus to them.

I seriously doubt anyone who had quit the series to even reconsider taking it up again. The only way for the Pokemon Trademark to survive would be to diversify elsewhere like into their Trading Card Games or their Nintendo DS games. There is no point in reinvesting their time and effort into a new story plot since their foreign target audience had already outgrew the intended age range a long time ago.

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

I told in my Japanese class that my favorite animes are Pokemon, Sailor Moon and Digimon and the reception was quite neutral. I don't know if that was because I had said beforehand "Now comes the funny part, I'll tell you my favourite animes." though.