I just thought of something...

So... Right now I've just been hoping that the sixth generation of the Pokémon anime is better than the fifth, because I really didn't like that one. Ash wasn't all that great in Diamond and Pearl, but in Black and White he just got worse. Hopefully he'll come back around in X and Y.

Either way, I do plan to try out this anime, and even more so now that I've thought of this one. In a thumbnail on the homepage of Serebii, where it shows the "next in Japan" thing on the side for the anime, there's a picture of Ash with Pikachu and Bulbasaur. Since Pokémon X and Y are having two sets of starters, one of them being the Kanto starters, do you think Ash will bring his old Bulbasaur with him to Kalos, or at least get to Kalos, catch a few Pokémon, and end up going to the PC for Bulbasaur when seeing other people picking Kanto starters? He's already got his Charizard on him, and Bulbasaur is an unevolved Pokémon, which would be better for new Pokémon fans who are sitting at home picking their first Kanto starter.

I'm going to branch off here for a second just to say that Bulbasaur has definitely been my favorite of Ash's Pokémon to date. He was in Ash's team for the longest time too, wasn't he? From the beginning of Kanto all the through until around half-way (or something) through Johto? I don't know for sure. I know that Ash's Bulbasaur gets a ton of praise, but that's for good reason. In my opinion, Ash's Bulbasaur was the Pokémon that showed the most interesting personality of all the Pokémon he had. We've seen Pikachu make the decision to not evolve, but he would have had to use a Thunder Stone. Bulbasaur got the level of evolution, and when the time came to evolve he made a conscious choice not to.

Looking at how this is about the new anime, and most people here have given up on the anime completely, I doubt this will get a whole lot of replies, if any, but I felt it was at least worth bringing up...

 

I definitely going to try watching Pokémon X and Y anime too. Something else I've noticed is that... Well... Does Ash look a little older to any of you? I know this is probably just wishful thinking, but in a lot of trailers Ash looks a little older to me, but that might just be that he has teeth now.

I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I didn't go back to Black and White to see N show up because I did. Ash was still an idiot, but N is such a great character and the episodes had such great plots that if you just ignored Ash the bumbling idiot, the show was great!

 

I'm not sure if I'd want to see his Bulbasaur evolve. After that episode when Bulbasaur chose not to evolve it would be a character killer to me. Although, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they were to make it evolve. Mega promotion, you know?

Nope. Ash hasn't won.