Oathkeeper, even though CA59 may have come off as a bit rude to you. She WAS only HELPING you fix some story elements, and seriously, not to be an ass, but some of the spelling does need to be fixed and I've noticed a boatload of grammatical errors. My advice is to read through your stories a couple of times to see if there's any grammar errors or beta readers as some have said. I still enjoy them, but it's very vital and important that you have good spelling if you want to be in the big leagues for writing and stories for games. As for the anime, you do realize that people like Ntom64 like the manga better and want Ash to be replaced. I thought the Kanto and Johto seasons were good, but Hoenn and Sinnoh just sucked and were corny. Granted, I didn't see the whole seasons of each. From what I've seen though of Hoenn and Sinnoh, not very good and corny. Seriously, they have way to much filler that Johto gave birth to later on, Brock was stale and was always overshadowed by others and barely got any attention. They pretty much beat the dead horse on Brock. The contests were bland, Team Rocket was just terrible, shitty motives, stale and dry humor, and just pathetic. Thank god they fixed them and improved them in Black and White, and actually from what I've seen from black and white, it's actually pretty good. You know, the reason some think Ash is an idiot or some dumbass is because his character development is VERY inconsistent. Their not trying to make him a gary stu, their just pointing out that despite all that development throughout the seasons, he somehow doesn't remember this or acts like some rookie. If he can remember the lure Misty gave him and remember Misty, then he can easily remember this and that or have that skill. You don't see anime like One Piece do stuff like that and it has like 400 episodes, you don't see Goku not remember kaioken or super saiyan and Dragon Ball Z has 291 episodes. Seriously, you don't see any other anime do stuff like pokemon or make some character with inconsistent development, their always consistent. That's why some think it would be better to have a new protagonist.