https://pokemonthenovel.dreamwidth.org/1319.html
>We're going to speak about Delia a bit more, this may be a little long, so if you don't care about Ash's mother's feelings, feel free to skip ahead. But if you persevere and keep reading here, you may be rewarded. It may tie in to what Ash does from now on.
Do you know what your mother thinks while you're playing outside or you're playing video games?
>This is true. A lot of them are thinking “dammit”. And it's not because you're spending your time playing instead of studying. It's because they want to play too, but can't.
>When you spend your allowance on a video game they're thinking “lucky brat”. Because with the money you spend they can no longer buy new shoes or clothes for themselves.
>While they're making your dinner they're thinking “I don't wanna do this”. They would honestly rather go out to a restaurant and have some fancy master chef make them a feast. And at a restaurant, there's no need to clean up the table afterwards.
>Every day your mother thinks “dammit”, “lucky brat” and “I don't wanna do this”, while doing the jobs a mother has to do.
The jobs a mother has to do include raising you, making sure you attend school, it's hard work.
>It may be interesting to observe your mother with her viewpoint in mind.

Most mothers don't actually think that unless they're a product of the modern world and didn't want children in the first place.
Raising children is a worthwhile time sacrifice because most other things you could do with your time is expendable, vapid, and meaningless - like going out to dinner. You're not truly an adult until you have responsibilities beyond your own person.

>>57934550 (OP)
>Most men tended to try and become Pokémon trainers.
>However, the harsh truth is that not everyone can be a Pokémon trainer, more people fail than succeed. Some men realise this early enough and are able to make a change of career, but others chase their dreams until the bitter end and become unable to integrate into society. Having become an adult with no skills other than the ability to throw a Poké Ball makes them effectively useless. Having failed to chase their dreams, they lose their confidence. They were nothing but talk. Unreliable. They always dreamed of getting rich quick. If people like this were allowed to be police, bankers or doctors, cities would be filled with thieves and hospitals would create casualties rather than cure them.
>As such, most important, serious jobs in this country were handled by women.
I never realized Shudo was such a cuck...

>>57934550 (OP)
I watched a few Pokemon episodes in Japanese recently and you can kind of tell from Shudo's writing at times that he's a miserable fuck. The first episode was fine but then the second:
>Jenny shits on Ash for being out in the city when there are criminals around or something
>Pokedex has a feature where like if it's lost you can't get it replaced because it serves as ID (??? maybe I'm misunderstanding but that feels pretty inconvenient)
>Joy shits on Ash for taking his injured Pokemon to the fucking hospital, which is where you'd think he should be taking it
>Misty slaps Ash in the face for supposedly not caring enough about Pikachu even though he's literally doing all he can at the moment which is just "take it to the hospital and let the nurses do their job"
>Oak shits on Ash for not catching any Pokemon on his literal first day as a trainer
>Ash's mother initially is supportive but then also shits on him when he says something like "don't mention Spearow" in response to something she said because he just got raped by a mob of them. Apparently this pisses her off enough to scream at him, for no clear reason

It's just genuinely fucking miserable, and Ash doesn't even seem to deserve any of this shit but the episode sure seems dead set on making you think he does. At the same time it also doesn't go far enough to be funny either. It's just a bunch of people, most of them adults, just absolutely shitting on this kid who doesn't even seem to have done much wrong on this particular occasion.

I get that Shudo was like the head writer or something, like the guy in charge of the main vision of the anime, but I think most of the iconic Kanto episodes were written by other people and weren't so relentlessly miserable for no real reason.

>>57934561
That's kind of the case with Delia. She wanted to be a trainer but instead got knocked up by her husband who then left town along with her dad to become trainers only to never return leaving her alone with Ash and forced to run the family restaurant. Though the novel makes it really clear that she loves Ash more than anything.

>Alcoholic drug addict tranny who killed himself schizo ramblings
Don't care.

>>57934845
> Oak shits on Ash for not catching any Pokemon on his literal first day as a trainer
And don’t forget Oak blames Ash for “being late” even though if there were 4 trainers and only 3 Pokémon someone was going to get the big goose egg if fuck all anyway even if they all showed up early. But then it turns Oak had Pikachu anyways so the whole rant was pointless.

>>57935435
The drug addict is literally the reason you're here today

>>57935472
Tbf, that one doesn't bother me much since I always took it as Oak trying to teach Ash a lesson about preparation and being on time.
The fact that he did have a fourth pokemon anyway and that he initially didn't seem to have a fourth pokemon ready despite knowing there were 4 trainers starting that day, does make the whole thing lose a bit of weight as a learning experience though.

>>57934845
It's part of their culture; some of those insults are expected from authority figures, such as, "I insult you because I care about you." Misty's slap was gratuitous; there's no justification for being a stranger.

Just to give an example of the cultural difference, this is an experience shared by a foreigner working in Japan:

"My workplace is made up of both foreign and Japanese employees. During a meeting, the boss gave a speech about his goals and actions for the following fiscal year. At the end, he asked for his employees' opinions and feedback. The Japanese group remained silent, but my foreign colleagues and I, showing that we paid attention to his entire speech and took notes, began to propose ideas."

"The next day, we were banned from any future meetings. A superior came to reprimand us for insulting our boss and the company's interests. There, we learned that the Japanese, despite pretending to be modern and polite, are governed by archaic norms, and it's all just a mask."

Japan is a depressing place as a society, which is why they have so many escapist resources—books, movies, fetishes. Even so, it's highly recommended as a tourist, as they make an exception because your stay is temporary; it's only when you stay that you see the true colors.

>>57935641
Returning to Pokémon, these kinds of things aren't shown directly; children are expected to learn this social etiquette from their parents, such as seeing their father bow his head in front of his boss, but become an ogre with his own wife, and pretend nothing is wrong in front of the neighbor. In this case, Shudo was being a bit edgy by showing it in a Kodomo series; generally in these, social norms are shown in a positive light.

Shudo is the classic case of I have a message, but I don't have the means to deliver it, while he is commissioned to do other people's jobs, he can not create something of his own, he was hired cuz he's efficient, although he did not believe in the project, it was only when he realized the immense popularity that Pokemon was having that he wanted to take over this project and portray his depressing vision of the world, that's when executives of the newly formed TPC began to think about the product internationally and Shudo did not fit into that new vision and was kicked along with his idea of the tyrannosaurus and the Pokemon rebellion. Ironically, those two ideas were taken up and deformed in future games, poor Shudo was just a Squidward who hated selling Krabby Patties, and was not allowed to play his depressing clarinet.

>>57935648
>kicked along with his idea of the tyrannosaurus and the Pokemon rebellion. Ironically, those two ideas were taken up and deformed in future games
"Deformed" is right. Tyrantrum should not have been as much of a shitmon as he was.

>>57935641
>Americans in foreign countries act like loud retards incapable of reading the room
Sasuga

>Shudo Lola: an unstable and depressed woman who's had child after child with nearly a dozen men who've all left her and the gym she struggles to manage. Her eventual abandonment of her children causes Brock to follow in her footsteps, with his lovestruck antics now reconceptualized as his desperate search for a partner who'll help raise his siblings.
>OLM Lola: a ditzy, carefree woman-child who's friendly, yet self-absorbed, and lacking in any material instincts. She complicates her children's lives, but since they treat her more like a quirky aunt who drops in from time to time and are generally self-sufficient, there's no trauma involved in her thoughtlessness and she's allowed to be a silly creature who drags her husband further down with her.
The difference is night is day.

>>57934568
>If people like this were allowed to be police, bankers or doctors, cities would be filled with thieves and hospitals would create casualties rather than cure them.

California is full of failed pokemon trainers

>>57937306
Japanese people are weird. Sticking their micropenis in you won't make them accept you.

>>57935641
You know, this actually explains why some utterly baffling decisions manage to make it into the final products.

>>57934845
Are you kidding me? It's almost the total opposite of what you said. Go and look at Shudos list of episodes he did and they're literally all the best ones

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category:Episodes_written_by_Takeshi_Shud%C5%8D

They also really all have that theme of a character trying to achieve their hopes and dreams.
I think that looking at them, they are generally quite positive too. Of course there's episodes like Meowths backstory episode that's a bit of a gut punch, but that's just him trying to be realistic. There's episodes like Charizard in the charific valley or the one with the Pidgey that wants to fly to space that are pretty positive and the character manages to achieve their dream.
Generally the are all really the most soulful episodes in the series by far

>>57938947
Shudo is a weird topic, his episodes are great but his hateboner for Ash or kid protagonists as a whole was obvious, he got buck broken after Minky Momo's flop and them turning Lugia into a male

>>57935641
>It's only when you stay that you see the true colors.
Literal Kino.

>>57938956
He's just bitter about society telling kids they can be whatever they want and do whatever they want when he knows it's not true and it's just lies. That said it's not lies for ALL children though.

I don't really know what the solution to this problem is, but I think for the better of society, it obviously makes more sense to encourage all children to do their best as that will ensure the ones who are destined for greatness reach it and society will reap the benefits. But you damn everyone else to a life of perceived failure and inadequacy.
vs shudo wanting to go the full opposite and make failure the default expectation, which leads to discouragement, but then hitting the ground doesn't hurt very hard of you never try to climb high. But then the ones who should have climbed high will never do so.
I dunno maybe they will regardless and it's an unfounded fear.

But then again, the dichotomy exists between the entrepreneurship and startup culture of the US and the entrepreneurship/startup culture of the rest of the world. It's allowed America to take first place in terms of inventions and innovations, but at the expense of everyone who tried thinking the advertised success was for them, but then it turned out to not apply to them. Like shudo said about all the men who tried to be trainers but failed and ended up as wastes.
Would it be better if every failed (and successful) entrepreneur never bothered and had put their efforts towards being a skilled wagie? Or is it better to have a society of low skilled failed dreamers, mixed with a small numbers of successful innovators and entrepreneurs? Who knows

>>57938947
That's why I said "most" of the Kanto episodes, I was acknowledging Shudo did write several iconic ones (most notably the first episode, Maiden's Peak, Giant Pokemon, and Meowth backstory ones) but many others that people associate with Kanto were written by other people. I also wouldn't say the second episode that I described in my post is one that anyone would call that great for its own merits and not just because important characters first showed up in it-- yeah yeah I get it's the intro to Team Rocket etc. but I'd even say it's pretty bad just taken on its own. I don't think anyone has this one as their favorite. The first half is pretty much just the shit I described and then the second is extended Team Rocket bullshit that's super basic because it was their first appearance.

But I really wasn't trying to say the guy was a bad writer overall but more that that episode in particular seemed to be him really letting his misanthropic attitude/possible dislike of working on Pokemon as a series show.

>>57939057
>>57938947
Also since I realize now that my point re: iconic episodes could've been taken as me implying that Shudo's episodes weren't good by comparison, what I meant was more that I don't think Shudo was solely responsible for the success of the Kanto series because other writers contributed a lot too.

>>57938956
>Minky Momo's flop
What? Minky Momo wasn't a flop. It ran for like 10 years and had a bunch of OVAs and crossovers. The anime did really well for itself in ratings, merch was the main issue. The toys just didn't sell as well as Popy, the manufacturer, had hoped. And since they already were in the process of going under, they pulled their funding from the show (and eventually got gobbled up by Bandai).

>>57939308
>>57939308
>merch was the main issue
Therefore it was a flop.
I wonder when you kiddies will finally understand that ratings don't matter, specially so nowadays on the streaming era, and that what truly matters and what makes the world go around is the merch.

>>57939308
>they pulled their funding from the show (and eventually got gobbled up by Bandai).
That's exactly what started his autism

>>57939518
>therefore it was a flop
The merch thing only effected the first TV series. The franchise continued on for years after '83.

>>57939577
Cool.
That particular entry still was a flop.

>>57935648
>I have a message, but I don't have the means to deliver it, so I'll use where I end up
Many such cases.

Dang, I just wanted to make the joke but it is a very sad joke if you allow it to be.

Bump

So, why was Shudo so bitter when making his plans for the Pokemon anime.

>>57939518
Shudo shouldn't have shat on the lolicon waifufags. They would've prevented it from flopping.