Pokémon Special Chapter 337 Discussion

doing huge rereading marathon to get back to this series, didn't done good to this arc.

even though the ending was epic, it wasn't without any ridiculous trouts, herm, ruby/sapphire/emerald/silver learns the "secret moves" so fast? pikachu group learns volt tackle just like that? and that's not everything. the end was clearly rushed, but even so, i glad it did, because this arc was the weakest. and emerald as a character even at the end hasn't grow on me even a bit. the reunion of 10 pokedex holders was cool, but clearly it was a lot for the author to handle, so he chose to concentrate mostly on the 5 main character of this arc (crystal, gold, ruby, sapphire, emerald). and he didn't even bothered with giving us a little taste of that huge tournament, but chose to focus on crystal/oak, why is that?



in other words, this arc was the first the felt truly a mess. awful pacing over the arc, too much expedition on the battle facilities that drown away the less careful way battling was in this manga so far,  weak frontier brain characters - in this area, i can say that even the anime made better way, and the final battle ,while feeling epic ,comparing to previous arcs felt the weakest, mainly because it overused only one villain with huge water monster without any imagination.

i wouldn't call this arc a "filler", but considering it was done only in favor of ending the FRLG saga, it might be true.

surprised too that emerald won, i think he should had easily defeated :/

nice ending, though i find RS ending much better



though i liked the latest events in the emerald arc, i still believe this is the weakest arc of them all.



RGB = RS < GSC < Y < FRLG < E

I'm surprised Emerald won, but he did have more practice in that game type. He was also fortunate that Red and Blue were on the other half of the bracket so he would only have to beat one of them.

So, this is the end for Emerald arc and wraps up the whole gen 3 saga. 



First half of this arc is kinda boring ngl, but since the appearance of Ruby and Sapphire, this arc starts to become enjoyable. More so after gold and crystal joined. The final battle isn't as interesting as RS/GSC, but it's still good, seeing 10 dexholders at the same time. 8.5/10, weakest arc so far.



 Current ranking: RS > RGB > GSC > FRLG > Y > E



Onto, DP arc, after a little break hehe

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                        Conclusion of the arc and an interesting arc at that. Glad to see how exactly they found a way to release the others (who were petrified previously), as well as some re-occurring villains and their plans. Like everyone's reaction to participating to the tournament at the end though lol (as well as a small glimpse of some characters we may be seeing in the upcoming arc). With that said, I was kind of surprised to see Emerald to have won the contest (unless my thinking can be wrong from seeing all 7 frontier badges there), at least he got the frontier badges then lol.