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>Is there anything you would change in SM? Drastically or not.

I'd make it what myself and many others hoped it would be, a direct continuation of the Kalos X&Y arc in the same way that the Johto arc was a direct continuation of Kanto. The same way that Brock and Misty continued on with Ash to Johto I would have his companions from Kalos make the journey to Alola with Ash.

Without changing anything from XY you'd have to make some small alterations near the beginning to make things work. Clemont has his gym duties but a justification to have him and Bonnie go would be with Alola looking to establish a league structure there and them inviting foreign gym leaders to help.

As far as Serena goes it wouldn't be too difficult to insert a plotline of Alola, in its efforts to open up more to the outside world, attempting to also establish a contest circuit. If you have a reasonable time skip of a few months between the end of XY and the beginning of SM she could have spent a decent amount of time in Hoenn before Palermo suggests that she go to Alola, or she might have heard about it from Ash that they're setting up a contest circuit there.

Regarding the visuals I'd keep it in the same style of XY and everything preceding it. No changes to the artstyle. No changes to the tone or writing either, I'd double down and go further in the direction that XY was taking things.

Something I'd like to see them do would be to allow the protagonists from the game to be main characters. I'd have Ash be somewhat of a mentor to the male protagonist, Ash is helping set up the league while the game protagonist is a challenger. I'd have a similar setup with Serena and the female protagonists with contests.

One of the big things I wouldn't do is get rid of what was left of the original staff like they did with the SM we got. I'd sit them down, tell them they have full freedom to do things how they please and give them a blank cheque.