the diamond and pearl anime was mid but in a watchable way exactly until the episode where they do a contest, which introduces extremely on the nose lesbian subtext and suddenly makes the show the best thing i’ve ever seen
@aescling Who are the lesbians? Ash's friends? Misty?
@aescling Have you seen the Pokémon Journeys episode where Dawn (the girl with the Piplup 
) and Chloe (the girl with the Eevee 
) go on vacation together? That was cute...
@vaporeon_ yes i was extremely there fur that episode
@aescling I liked the parts of the anime where it's just life with Pokémon, and then I was very very bored at the end where the championships started
I'm just not very interested in watching a battle where it's obvious that Ash will find some trick to win anyway...
@vaporeon_ and dawn does happen to be lesbian coded in the diamond and pearl anime, so