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>slowly subverted with Diamond being the tsukkomi
Diamond becames to tsukkomi to Cyrus right? My memory's failing me but that was funny. Not that iconic but funny I guess. The only DP attempt at being serious that worked for me was the trio splitting up. DP might've been better if it just focused on being comedic and didn't meander as much, the RS arc seemed much more tightly structured in comparison.

>vol 16
Fun volume. Ruby and Sapphire's dynamic in the whole Dewford-Abandoned Ship part was underrated, it could've been explored more desu.

>RS being one of the best arcs next to the gen 1 ones
Based. I've also been procrastinating on rereading gens 1-3 because I enjoyed RGB/Y (RGB guys appearing in Y with new mentorship roles was kino, and Y being one of the few arcs with a proper ending helps a lot) while GSC was weird. Then RS comes afterwards to basically be the most popular arc but everyone knows that. I also wanted to reread everything because my next Sapphire related schizo theory after "Sapphire is religious and has racial in group preference" is that, in context of the RS arc's later tone shift compared to RGB/Y/GSC, (at the time) Sapphire represented old Pokespe and Ruby represented new Pokespe.