Was Pokemon Journeys Good, or Bad?

My brother who is 16 assumed Goh was either gay or a girl due to how much times he blushed at Ash in the beginning of Journeys

The battles in this series weren’t good. Not only were they incredibly static and disjointed but they were just ash getting battered for 10 minutes and then one shotting his opponent, especially in the masters 8☠️. Definitely the worst battles since the original series.

"Was Pokemon Journeys A Bad Series?" yes

Sinnoh was the best saga ngl (XY and Alola are close), it had everything - Great rivalry (Paul and Zoey having their own development), good growth for the main characters (Ash and Dawn) where they had their own highs and lows, their Pokémon had great personality development too especially Piplup who literally cried because Ash, Brock and Pikachu were leaving Sinnoh after the Sinnoh League ended. Journeys would've been better if Goh didn't come across as a Gary Sue, plus if catching Pokémon and learning more about them/Project Mew was the goal for second main character anyways then Gary would've been a much better partner for Ash during the final series since it would give us a chance to see Ash and Gary's friendship to develop properly instead of going with the "Oh he beat the cocky kid in the tournament so they are friends now" troupe

MY personal opinion is it wasn't.......terrible......just disappointing. Most of my issues come Easily from Goh. He was an obnoxious, arrogant, Gary Stew that I'm supposed to believe is able to catch pokemon super easy (the show completely got rid of the whole battle the pokemon to weaken it so you can catch it) and LEDGENDARY pokemon after only being a trainer for a couple months? AND he can battle as good as ash? Oh and he Stright up stole Grokie. The other factor that I was disappointed was the Gallar reagon got SCREWED. Sword and shield had so many interesting gym leaders in characters and even Leon was basically non-existent in Journeys despite being Ash's Big Goal. And with the gallery Jen doing the gym battles in such a very different in specific way we also didn't get to see a shoes dynamaxing so it's like Pokemon knew that people didn't like sword and shield and just gave up on making a cool anime for it despite all the great potential. Oh and OF COURSE freaking Goh catches Etertinis because why freaking not. I also agree that Ash got the shaft this season as well. The first season he didn't even get ONE of the new Gallar starters....no again it GOH. I swear freaking Goh was a lead creator of this seasons own personal fan fiction self insert Mary Sue OC.

I honestly think it ranks as low as BW, maybe even below BW. Does it have good moments? Yeah. But it failed in so many regards, such as Goh, the filler episodes, the disjointed nature, the treatment as Ash's sendoff series, Team Rocket's treatment, Galar being screwed over, the treatment of Pokemon, and Chloe.

Objectively speaking it was a bad series. Watching ash become champion felt more like a chore than a next big step in his journey. The side arcs were unfulfilling and no real fan service was given.

👍 Fanservice/Continuity (when made it right) 👍 Yuki Hayashi 👍 Some good battles 👍 Unpredictability 👍 Some nice little arcs 👎 Way too episodic 👎 Way too fillery 👎 Shallow fanservice 👎 Choppy powerscaling 👎 Lack of screentime and interactions in Ash's team 👎 Subpar animation 👎 The way Legendary/Mythical are handled 👎 Huge missed oportunities overall - No reserves being the biggest of them 👎 Goh (a co-protagonist shouldn't exist in Ash's final season, especially such a controversial one)

It would be better if jessie and James caught a impidimp and a cramorant instead of using the rocket prize master in journeys though it would've been nice if that happened

You basically sums up the entire show completely. Honestly, in my opinion, I blamed the writers and the producers for doing a terrible job in Journeys of creating Goh and Koharu who are the worst traveling companions for Ash, useless fillers episodes, pointless plot, and they did a poor job with Ash and his Pokémon. I can not believe that this is Ash's last adventure. Its sad Ash is leaving the Pokémon anime, a part of me is glad that he's finally retiring, and a part of me will miss him because he's a part of my childhood. Sometimes I think. What is he going to do now since his adventure is over? Also, they could have done a better job of giving him a proper send-off in his last adventure instead of making a fan service show. Kind of like that Pokémon: Aim to Be a Pokémon Master, which I hope this show will be a proper send-off for him.

In hindsight what really bothered me about Journeys was Goh's catchathon. Sure I did not like it when it was going on, but it aged even worse. A capture has always been one of most monumental events in the series and Goh just all emotional meaning from it. I think the biggest out of universe issue with Journeys is that the creators focused too much on marketing and not on substance. They gave ash such a cool team for click bait, but did not care to give them regular screentime.

I tried to watch it again and it's definitely the worst of all. not worst because it's bad but because of just pure absolute poor execution. - project mew is just bad - they didn't care about ash's character, they just casually gave him OP mons out of the gate and speed run the whole tourney - overused theme song - ash's plot armor in the masters 8 couldn't be more obvious - goh throwing balls left and right - giving goh pokemon he didn't deserve - goh didn't really have drastic character developement, he still sucks at battleling until the end and still a wimp (even lillie was gone through drastic development in a shorter span) - they didn't give ash a proper rival (leon was barely a rival to him than bea) - they did team rocket so dirty - awful fan service despite the plethora of characters to work with - ash's team is so bland, lacking of personality (heck oshawott has more personality than his JN's team combined) - they made chloe the worst eevee girl (she didn't deserve that) - they crowned ash the best inspite using all the gimmicks as if it's a good thing to win through leon's mercy (that's just plot conviniece again) overall just a dissapointing season and it ran for too long.

2:41 "Goh is a fine character." No, not in the slightest.

I think it was quite bad but ofc has its moments, galar was one of my favourite generations so it’s such a shame to have that missed out especially when the galar episodes were by far the best in my opinion 😭

I liked the idea of Journeys, Ash’s battles and team. But I had a few problems with them not going to Galar that much and not seeing all the Galar Pokémon. I also didn’t like anything about Goh and Chloe, they were both the worst thing about the series.

The big problem for me is that Journeys was meant to kind of be the final act for Ash, and they did try to re-unite him with past rivals and companions. But it's done really half-assed. Some are good, like him meeting back up with Dawn and Brock. But a lot of them are done really badly. Like, when he meets Serena again...for like 15 seconds. But hey, at least she got to meet Ash again. May was relegated to just watching him on TV, with Serena. Would've been nice to see them actually interact and with Dawn, since...y'know, they're all performers/coordinators. Lot of common ground to use there. And I'd be more forgiving if there was just not enough room to fill that many cameos and dedicate episodes to them, but like you said, Journeys had a ton of useless filler that episodes regarding Serena, May and Misty returning could've easily replaced.

For me worst series of all. I am happy if someone really enjoyed but I just could not. Only things I really liked was past characters coming back, but for most time it was handled poorly, and then the World Coronation Series, really great idea with so much potential, yet they fucked it up completely. Even though I did not like Black and White and it was worst series of all, somehow Journeys was able to overcome it and be even worse. Really was hoping for better last series with Ash.

As much as I very much agree that the writing was bad and Goh and Chloe were very annoying and pointless characters, one of my main issues with Pokemon Journeys is one that people barely talk about: The butchering of Pikachu's character. He went from loving and respecting Ash greatly to having no respect for him at all and seems to have developed a severe attitude; this is most evident in episodes such as Betrayed, Bothered and Beleaguered and Sleuths for Truth. One fortunate saving grace is that by the Masters Eight he's back to his old self, being legitimately loving and loyal towards Ash again, seeming to indicate that other people objected to the change as well.

I think another main problem for journeys was that it didn’t balance story line and nostalgia well. By sprinkling in many short cameos of old characters journeys sort of lost a specific focus at some points. The quickness of the returns also meant that they didn’t always serve their purpose and fans were actually left with more questions than before. I think this made it seem as though Ash’s connection with Goh and Koharu was less strong than his connection with previous companions, as many long time fans were almost more focused on potential returns than the actual storyline of Journeys. I think Journeys would have been better if it had fewer but more flushed out returns and had a more focused storyline that would have allowed fans to bond more with series.

A bad series, no. The worst series of Pokemon so far, yes.

I my opinion it really was. I wish Satoshi catched Galar pokemon instead of Dragonite Gengar and Lucario and i wish Musashi catches Chewtle heck the writers even did give chewtle its own running gag with it biting in Musashis hair. But my biggest disapoitment is the lack of Galar and its Pokemon. I feel that if the writers really wanted to make a journey series it should have been a series in a different timeline and let Satoshi have adventures in Galar.

I agree with the Chloe one ... She has potential , they wasted it

Journeys as series is good had great moments for returning all of past characters but those trash filler episodes, recaps of M8, and waste of time on Chloe’s character that shouldn’t have been in the series. What saved Journeys was the M8 but lots of disappointments about few of the battles not being great, the writing of characters, and pacing of battles. Only three out of seven battles were great. I dislike how some of the M8 trainers were done and treated mainly Alain, Leon, Diantha, and Lance. You have this big tournament but can’t make every amazing trainer look good in every battle and one hit or two hit ko’s were terrible on top of that.

The main thing that annoys me, that they either make things off-screen or explain some aspects with almost nothing. For example, we saw Ash struggling after being defeated by Bea. But then for some reason they skipped the time when Ash went up to Super Class again? Like why? Or how we could believe that Journey's team could win WCS without showing any signs of training? At the end they tried to show this aspect, but what was earlier? There's was a time, where Ash used only Pikachu. Remember Dracovish? We do, but for some reason the writers didn't and after the capture it did appear ten episodes after its debut. Or like a new-born Lucario could beat a champion-level Garchomp? And don't get me started on Iris in this series. We had a tease in BW series if she wants to be a Gym Leader, that's okay. But I don't understand why they made her a Champion all of sudden. This isn't her game counterpart, where she became one. Like they just wanted an upgrade for the sake of it. And I like said earlier, they didn't even try to explain how she became one. She just wanted to be stronger and... that's all? No badges, no Unova League, no E4, no Alder battle. In the WCS they made her better, by showing her skills. But the bad aftertaste remains.

Ash's plot armor was obnoxious in this series. Easily the worst pokemon series in my opinion.

Pokémon journeys is like if it’s good then nothing is better than it. But if it’s bad nothing is worse than it.

Pokemon Journeys was so bad that I wish Ash's sleeping sickness theory was confirmed

the series 4/10, Goh js has a dumb goal n also havin a 100% catch rate, the literal goal of Ash is to be a champion n it js took him like 0 years with no growth unlike other champions that may work harder and i didnt like the plot armor especially the shining of pikachu, btw Chloe has nvr been important(yes she had her own episodes but it didnt impact anything important in the journeys) and i love Team Rocket but they did them dirty having them no official pokemon for journeys

I didn't really like Pokemon journeys. Poor Chloe was just there to be the female companion. I didn't enjoy the masters 8. Also nothing to do with pokemon journeys but Ash should have gotten an Espeon during Johto

Pokémon Jorneys suck because of Goh

yes,it was the worst,it was bad enough but it got even worse with the fact it ended the pokemon anime.I couldnt watch it and that is coming from a guy who has watched every single series since i was 6

I mean without context is pretty good but for it to be ash's last season it had too much filler.

It was bad ! The only good thing was the continue story of Lily , and Ash finally became the world champion . The rest I just mee~ and horrible.

i hate how goh left ash under the masters eigth and then cries when ash says he wants to travel alone.

It's undoubtedly the worst,black and white is peak compared to this

I actually liked most of it but those stupid fillers even worse than sun and moon but its was ok for me

answering the title yes on second thought no It's not a bad series It's the worst

I say it had potential, definitely went down hill after Episode 21

I feel like they could have made ash smarter, cuz from like episode one of Indigo league when ash wakes up late, you know he will screw up an unbelievable amount of times

Actually there's nothing wrong with the series but they literally did wrong with serena 💔

I hate the artstyle they changed in Alola and continued here,I hate the Journeys art style

#ROADTO50K!!! I think this is an excellent explanation of why Pokemon Journeys has its good and bad moments, although ash has become the strongest in the world, masters 8 was incredibly rushed. also, I feel like pokemon journeys should have been a bit more straightforward like the other seasons but overall pokemon journeys was pretty decent

I have too many question and this is going to give you a Freaking Headache Where is Chloe G-max Eevee? Will the rest of Ash's Pokémon unevolved even when they don't refused to evolve will remain the same form forever? When Will the Legends Arceus anime come out? Whoever Created this anime why does this anime have to be so Weird and as Ash didn't get Grookey and takes over Goh's Sholder friend (RIP Cinderace😪 you where a awesome shoulder Pokémon)

What's the center point of Pokémon Journeys? Making Fanservice with a poor character development. Also with 2 of the worst Ash's partners: GOH and KOHARU. The first one is a Mary Sue that can catch any Pokémon without any effort, and the writters liked to give him more attention, even they made Ash so stupid to do that. Finally Koharu the most useless and weakest Pokegirl ever, because she didn't catch any Pokémon (Eevee doesn't count by being her starter Pokémon), in all the season she didn't do nothing important. The only important thing in this season is that Ash became a world champion. At least journeys saved Black and White to be the worst series ever.

There was no hate for me in Pokémon Journeys. There were lots we got in Journeys that we wanted like Cynthia Vs Ash we wanted for years even though his Infernape wasn't sadly used, returning characters becoming better like Iris who was better than ever especially with her being champion and her Haxorus was brilliant but sadly her Dragonite was done silly, we saw returning characters again, great new Pokémon and lots to be true. I was even glad that we saw many of Ash's traveling companions meet like Serena being with May and Max, Cilan with Brock and of course the Alola gang, and speaking of Alola, we can't forget that fantastic episode with Lily and Gladion's father! That was a super amazing episode! Although, journeys did also let us down badly too, and I wasn't a massive fan of Goh at the time he caught Suicune, the fillers being terrible, some wasted battled and especially journeys having some of the worst Pokémon episodes in history like the recaps during the Master's 8. We could've had longer battles without those recaps and fillers and something else too. For me though journeys was a good series, but it won't be any better than Sinnoh, Kalos or Alola which despite having filler episodes too weren't done badly. Of course journeys to me is not as bad or the worst series to me.

Pokémon Journeys is bad because Ash and Goh are horribly annoying Gary Stu characters, and they even ruined Chloe, and that's what matters most to me. At first, she seemed like a distant person because she's in fact introverted, and introverted people tend to act distant. I can tell, I am introverted, and Chloe is a really relatable character for me. She's more grounded in reality than Ash and Goh are and she has more realistic and relatable problems than Ash and Goh's problems ever were, like not knowing what she wants to do. Or at least that used to be the case, as when she joined them, she became more like them, aka. a Mary Sue. She could become anything, and they made her yet another trainer out of all things. You're telling me that a Galarian Ponyta called her specifically for an important problem even though she's in Kanto, hundreds if not thousands of kilometers away from Galar ? Why ? Well because she's a protagonist here's why. Chloe had potential. She wasn't into raising Pokemon for battle, she wanted to do something different. Once again, she didn't know what she wanted to do. She could have been the most interesting character in the Pokemon series thus far. It's not often that we see characters on the introvertion spectrum in this series, and she could have found what she wants to do, which could have been something never done before. Not a trainer, not a coordinator, something that has nothing to do with that, bringing some fresh air in the series and fitting with the fact that she doesn't seem to like what Ash and Goh do (well she used to). But nope she became a trainer of course. And after that she wasn't really relatable anymore to me like she was in the first season.

I liked Pokemon journeys for the most part, but I would've liked it more if it focused on mainly the galar region like every other series did with their region.

that 1 episode where Goh Flash back episode yeahh that could've been scrapped completely

Imo it wasn't that bad, but considering it was Ash's last journey that centered around him actually becoming the best in the world with old characters coming back, I think there was a huge amount of missed potential that the show just did not grasp. For example, a lot of Ash's WC matchups were against past Gym leaders- who were people that he already beat. They should've had him fight more trainers that he lost to beforehand, especially those that ended his previous league runs (Richie, Tyson, Tobias, etc). They could've also had him fight the other top trainers that Ash never faced like the Unova league winner who's Eevee team swept Cameron who defeated Ash (screw that guy smh), and other more prominent Elite 4 members to build Ash's status more. Hell, maybe have him fight other previous champions like Alder or Wallace (like an actual, full fledged battle) so that the show can a) show much he has grown, and b) established just how strong the new champions are since they were the ones who dethroned the previous title holder.

It was interesting quit a few great Episodes but didn’t like Team rocket and there pokemon machine and Goh took to much screen Time. But I haven’t seen most the series from like 24th or something Episode in master journeys, because I can’t get any episodes in the Uk

I agree in your assessment, yes I also would prefer a direct route city to city passing forest and stuff like a real journey. now understanding the time constraints and the fact they wanted him to revisit regions and stuff then I would have prefer more episodes within a city then having him ping pong one city per episode. I prefer to flesh out his experience more which was what was lacking. also they did our boys team rocket like dirty with that captcha coin machine. the battles were soulless because they were not the true trainers of the mons. I mean during sun and moon I became a super fan of team rocket. the development was incredible. yet they were downgraded so hard and I notice lots of you youtubers have not spoken about it. :) more content for you at least :D

Powercreep fiesta that screwed over Ash's old Pokémon.

The beginning really dragged, but the end carried the series.

No cap Pokémon Journeys was bad for me because of Goh’s trying to catch every Pokémon I mean he had to miss his friends biggest match💀

i think the series should have ended with xyz after that the show became a shell of what it was with writers that don't give a fuck about continuity and characters

I've enjoyed Journeys but ya aren't wrong regarding Chloe. Misty, Dawn and Iris are the only female companions that haven't had an Eevee and you would think that would be perfect for Misty since she would want to evolve it into Vaporeon. What I didn't like regarding that is that it made it seem like Chloe's was special to the point that they were going to discover that it actually can't evolve since it's a Gmax Eevee, just to incorporate that into the show. Never cared how they traveled, my only other notable issue is Sword/Shield barely got any spotlight. No Milo, Nessa, Kabu, Bede, Gordie or Melony. We haven't gotten all game characters, we've missed out on Janine I think was the name plus never saw the Johto Elite 4 and we missed most of the Hoenn Elites but not seeing most of the Galarian Gym Leaders? that's problematic. Never cared about how inconsistent Ash is or rather was and at least Pikachu didn't get reset. I had no issues with Goh other than how easy it was for him to catch stuff, not talking about Suicune here since at least that 1 it was pretty weakened due to the beating it took from a poacher I think it was if I recall right? I don't think it was a stupid goal for Goh, sure he could've if they wanted him to and put in the effort but they didn't. Look at how many he caught earlier in the series, he caught pretty much all Gen 1 Bug-types in 1 show, I just don't think they wanted to keep doing that which makes it bad. There were definitely some good World Coronation battles some of my favorites were when Ash finally beat Bea, when Ash fought Volkner, Drasna and even a lot of the final ones. Cynthia was so wise using Destiny Bond to take out Pikachu since that limits his gimmick options and Pikachu tends to be a wild card.

I've cried more times in these seasons than any other so: No.

sun and moon is better tbh

Pokemon has no filler. Filler is used in adaptations of manga to pad things out until the anime gets up to manga material. Pokemon anime is not based in a manga but video games therefore there is no filer, just weak episodes Other than that, I agree with everything else you said.

Journeys art style is just too babyish or something that's why it turn me off

I lost interest in this show very quickly because of Goh. He was always outclassing Ash Ketchum by catching every Pokémon with no effort or training. I found it annoying and unfair. And Chloe had no reason to be here. And when she was, she always had some passive aggressive thing to say to the characters. Doesn't contribute or stand out hardly. And of all places to end Ash's journey. Why here? In a show like this to be exact. They didn't start putting the focus on him until the latter half of this series. This might not be as bad as black and white, but it comes close.

Pokemon journeys is mid tbh

Yes it is bad. It is so bad that by the time Ash battled Cynthia, I had lost interest in and never cared to watch. You are telling me, that in all other series, except Alola, Ash starts with a new set of pokemon and can't get past the semi final of the league but here he beats freakin Cynthia with a farfetched and some the most idiotic excuse of a pokemon? Also why does that character Go exist?

This was kinda mixed out pokemon generation anime.🤔 Some parts were really good, but some were really boring, and there were also problems that were caused by pandemic.😑 But overall your video sums up everything.

Agree I love journeys but could of been better their home base/the lab should of been in galar not kanto we should of meet all galar gym leaders 1 way or another like nessa doing a photoshoot in place of the blue ep the PWC only happening in galar and no random trainers you can only enter if you are a gym leader/kahuna, elite 4 or champion and it's all tournament style that goes up in pokemon 1v1, 2v2, 4v4, 6v6. Goh should of only caught their first stage and evo them up unless they have other forms, regional variants or branch evo have him want to catch and train a lot of pokemon to be ready for whatever mew brings out and he should of got a psychic z crystal that turned into a mew z crystal from alola and had more times with mew secretly following goh as another pokemon. Chloe just seems to be their because they needed a girl character honestly eevee should of went to goh copycat would of been perfect for him and eevee might of got other good moves like swift, bite, iron tail and possibly gmax and he would of caught all the other evos after eevee didn't want to evo into them and with the stones could evo more of his pokemon she should of got a cherruim or other flower pokemon and her goal was terribly done making her a researcher after she was so against it was stupid

Hey gooey remember that episode in Pokémon journeys when a lot of Pokémon started to de evolve and ash and goh started to de age because of a problem with palkia and dialga

Another one of its main issues was the absolute lack of Galar content in the show. Its story was rushed, pushing the climax of the game, the Darkest Day, on EPISODE 42-45. I get it was supposed to be more a Pokémon Go/Lets Go anime than a Sword/Shield anime but the absolute disrespect the anime gave for its story was just insane.

I wanted to like Journeys, I really did, on paper it should’ve been an easy slam dunk but as time went on I found more and more problems with it until by the end it was unbearably mediocre and disappointing

Pokémon Journeys should of been what aim to be a Pokémon master was. Keep the plot with ash bearing Leon, however have his traveling partners switch around every few episodes. Bring back old Pokémon every episode and of course you can still have him get his journeys team through out the series, this way we have a whole 3 season arc of the show to conclude his arc as well as all of his Pokémon, companions and rivals arcs. This entire series should of been labeled from the start as the end of ash’s journey. People like May, Max, and Serena all kinda got shafted. A good example of how they brought back a character was Dawn, she was there in a lot of episodes and didn’t just come back for one episode. She had a role in the show and she had growth still.

I think it could have been better... If Ash would have brought back his other Pokemon, especially his past Aces for their own arcs one last time, like Charizard, Sceptile, etc... It would have been cool to see them all get one last hoorah before Ash left.

Eyo at least we got to see ash and serena meet up again What more do you want pokefans

For me Xy#1 Sun and moon #2 Dp#3 Kanto#4 Joto (battle frontier mainly)#5

The worst thing is removing gym battles. Like why?

IT WAS GOOD.... except for the part when they were having a rap battle

Pokémon Journeys, a series that started great and deteriorated over time. It seems that their focus on all 3 of their "main characters" seem to have led to the ultimate demise of a series that had so much potential. They clearly had a set story that they wanted to convey at the start, and set it up piece by piece, but seem to have abandoned it in turn of having all characters have their own time in the spot light, which by the time they did this shift made it too late. Project Mew felt like an after thought, something that they never had in mind but only created to give Goh a purpose, since Ash would eventually win and become World Champion, Koharu also had a weird development. She went from being a more shy, stuck up girl, to a more adventurous one after meeting her Eevee, which would be a plot point left open ended as we never got a resolution to that. She also had the weird Pokémon performer episode, which felt like they only used her because she has an Eevee, and she's a girl, exactly like Serena. She also had a lot of potential, but I can only recall few episodes in which she actually was involved in the story in a fun way, not one they put her in because of circumstance. It seems like their shift so late into the game wanting all 3 characters to have substance to the story, taking time out of Ash and his Pokémon, ones that we're suppose to feel attached to despite barely even getting to see them at all outside of Team Rocket battles, Gym Battles, or their introductions. I like Goh as a character, but they also handled him a bit wrong. Instead of having episodes dedicated to each person, they shoved them into episodes together expecting it to work well, with Ash going off and battling and Goh either sitting on the sidelines, participating as well, or just catching Pokémon in one throw. It was only when masters 8 was upcoming is when they decided to split the episodes off into their own stories, rotating between Project Mew and Ash fighting in the Masters 8, which is how it should've been from the start. In short, lots of potential but it was all sidelined after the first season.

I lost interest in this series so fast it’s the only Pokémon series I didn’t like I didn’t like a lot of the changes it made and goh was annoying

I liked Journeys, that’s all

Ash vs Leon is the best animated fight probably ever

Goddamn legendary know wait master legendary

To me it’s meh to me

It was a good series, but a bad idea. People reacted very badly to the blatant attempt to push out Ash for Goh. Yet, somehow most of the fandom thinks they won't react even worse when Ash is replaced by his daughter... Newsflash, People. Hate. Change.

No hate ALOHLA IS A W SERIES

It was an okay series…

Now that this is my last year of high school I wanted to watch the last episode of Ash and Pikachu at the last day of my school, BUT, I still not even have passed 20 episodes of the first season due to how episodic it is in most cases and how uninteresting Gog and especially Chloe are, and I decided to watch Hunter x Hunter instead. Maybe I should only watch the essential episodes of Journeys which has the character returns, the masters 8 and the finale. Pokemon XYZ, to me, it’s still the more HxH feel of the Anipoke.

Pokémon Journeys was a big disappointment. I didn’t like this version of Ash, Goh was a mix bag and Chloe was…a waste. Again I don’t blame the characters but more on the writing and direction. I liked that we got to see Ash’s companions again but sadly they weren’t utilized to their fullest! Especially with Serena and May pissed me off because of their lack of screen time. Journeys had so much potential yet in the end they squandered it! I’ve never been so angry since the disappointment of YGO Arc-V. Hopefully they learn their lessons with Horizons which I’ve seen and it looks very promising. I just hope this isn’t the last time we’ve seen Ash because he deserved a better send off than this BS! Especially his other traveling companions.

according to what i read none of the pokemon journey anime is filler

Honestly I loved it because it was the first series I watched,and most of my favorite pokemon are in galar,where ash Leon and goh saved galar and where ash won his 3rd champion

I stopped watching journeys in 2020 because I’m gonna be real I had a gut feeling it’d get worse. I can’t really give much of an opinion on it because of that but I’d rather not bore myself then actually form an opinion on something I’ve hated since 2020.

Honestly Journeys brought me back into pokemon after sun and moons animation change and I'm greatful for that

Your the beat

Def Alola was the best of the series it surprised me, it has a good plot, good amount of characters, arcs, even they could connect better the Tapu thing with the group and has the chad Kukui (universal father) on it, even its fillers doesn't feel too much like it.

What sucked is that they never had Ash catch more Pokemon since Dracovish and Ash should of caught that Beartic in episode 4 and that Ratata and Spearrow in episode 6 and Latias and Latios. Ash also should of caught a Yamper and tyrantrum and more Galar Pokemon

I did dissect the series. Cutting out the filler made it somewhat tolerable but some episodes are highlights of the series. Sad to say that it still weaker for a Pokémon series. Ash getting Lucario and Korrina triple returns (Bea and Korrina were fun on screen) for helping Ash unlock Mega Evolution. Ash vs Volknar Ash vs Iris Ash vs Leon Dawn Serena Cynthia Clemont Bonnie Chuck. The Arecus Chronicles Movie was pretty good. The PWC did underdevelope and rob some match ups. Ash vs Alan was one of those rematches I really wanted to see Ash get his win back, but Ash vs Leon was really good.

Go catching every Pokémon is irritating.

Pokémon journeys was the best series because it had Allister in it

Goodra.

2:17 he lost to those trainers after Bea cause he had a mental block after losing to her.

Terrible it was rushed first of all, Ash has no development in the series what so ever because they have 2 protagonist. They needed to take the slow and a more oringial approach. Not to mention non of all the other chapters got development either. Structure was garbage the series felt rushed. Pacing garbage go garbage companions garbage. Fights garbage it was ok but compared to xyz garbage. Go should've been a new protagonist in a different side series and they can bring go and ash together if they want but other than that garbage.theres only a few episodes you really need to watch

Sorry about the essay More disappointing than bad it was just of eh it felt like every time I looked at it, it was a new series like at the beginning it was ash and goh traveling around the world simple leading up to the darkest day Then I took a look at it And it’s ash only focusing and feeling obsessed of them master 8 and goh catching Pokémon and wanting to catch them all then added this new character Then I look back again and theirs Dawn and Cynthia and a legends arc and now goh as a legend I think? And ash is the world campion is has the most stacked team ever And I look back ash is the world champion, all of his previous Pokémon and campaigns are back (and Paul) goh left and is doing mew thing and colu is their For me this series never took the time to slow down and say “Hey what are we doing and more importantly why are we doing it?” The start and ending were the best because they felt focused and now scrammed and showing what makes people love Pokémon like I liked watching the start because it’s two kids goofing around and exploring the Pokémon world *I mean like first *season or part 1 and 2* but ash and goh felt like Pokémon at the start because they were having fun and it was gouged they had goals at the start of every episode and did then flaws yes but it felt like Pokémon I like the endding because it shows how far ash has come threw out the years and show cases he ain’t a push over it was throw out most of it focused just a kid trying his hardest to accomplish his dream using his pets to fight Wholesome But yeah Pokémon journeys just felt like a check list after the sword and shield arc 1. Filler check 2. Goh gets this amount of Pokémon check per episode check 3. Goh loses Pokémon check 4. Ash catch’s Pokémon check 5. Ash bonding episode 6. New game comes out do that check 7. Wacky lab episode check 8. Chole solo episode check 9. Filler 10. Ash meets old friend You get my point maybe it’s the pacing like goh’s starter evolves ok then like 10 episodes later evolves again!? WHAT like it’s like they were done with the sad raboot arc and wanted funny scorebunny It’s kinda the same sobble evolves gets sad then sits a cave while goh just replaces him with dumb grookey intel he gets another episode and evolves again LIKE BRO why are u rushing this it felt like u wanted to make goh as cool and on the same level as ash so u made two of his Pokémon depressed (both starters btw) then evolved them really quick even if raboots arc was decent and sooble didn’t even get a arc he got like an episode And ash was meh I’ve got a good example I’m pretty sure ash in aloha lost really late into the series like 3rd season don’t quote me on that but ash just idk feels off I’m not saying they shouldn’t have made him not lose but they should have made him like a threat we’re people see him and KNOW HIMS AND he’s got a tiny ego about it *tiny* but that’s not who he is anymore but it could show sometimes but I want ash to be a threat like maybe make it hard for him to get challenged so that way we can show all of his battles or don’t do that cus that’s dumb but this kid has challenged like almost every league and gotta almost every gym badge I want his first fight to be like idndnek a threat not this. Random dude we only see like once make it Brock use ash being a threat and only the strongest trainers even tho he’s the lowest levels like maybe his first battle can set up this season is gotta be different have them fight berry in Galler do something wacky with it like it’s such a werid combo but that’s what this season should be *werid* Also team rocket machine thing sucks