Is there any actual reason for why the series had a tone shift after XYZ?
I seriously don't remember this enough but I do remember the stakes at the end of the anime being very high along with there being a sort of romance going on and a genuine development arc for Ash. Why did we never see this again in the Anime? Or we did but not at this exact intensity, Sun and moon had something going on at the end too but iirc Journey's threat was less impactful because Leon was around. And ofc Ash Greninja, why didn't we get other notable variants of Pokémon like that? #games