Oh nice, I am loving this arc, and I have a feeling you do have some more twists and turns coming, but I have a feeling and I could be wrong we shall see things from Misty's side from when she woke up.

That dhock should awaken Ash's memories.

I WAS JUST RE-READING THIS STORY LAST NIGHT! I almost fell asleep when I got the notification that you posted this! I love this, can't wait to read more! (And curse cliffhangers!)
Also, CONGRATS ON THIS REACHING A MILLION WORDS!

Dawn, I think you just met your several-times great grandparents

Mai: Okay, let's crush a rookie
Ash: Unfortunately for you, I am on New Game Plus

The Kleavor fight would be an excellent time for another of Ash's team to appear. Imagine, Charizard diving out of the sky like a Big Damn Hero

Enter Misty. The game has changed, methinks

Congrats on reaching 1 million words!

Been waiting for misty to return and have her reunion with ash let those two have there happy reunion and also not forget who ash is and who he is to her and have plenty of poke shipping moments between them

Poor Ash.

Wow what a chapter! Excellent work as usual!

Awesome chapter!

Let's talk about "Best gurl Misty".

Ahh, Pokeshipping. The beautiful pairing of Ash Ketchum and Misty (Waterflower?).

Or is it really so beautiful?

Let's get this straight. I'm not the one who likes his posts lengthy. In other words I'm lazy, but whatever.

The only reason there were so many Pokeshipping moments in the Original series, because the anime along side the entire Pokémon series was supposed to end after the conclusion of Gen 2. So they needed to give their hero a proper ending.

And what would be a better ending than giving him a wife? Cringy? Ikr!

Pokeshippers dwell on the fact that Ash and Misty were supposed to have a kid and it was in an early trailer of Movie 1.

Let's see how old is that movie.

22 years old. Those poor people are dwelling on a 22 year old idea... That's pitiful!

All those Pokeshipping moments, they were only because THE SHOW HAD TO END SOON!

Also, after that it was decided that Pokémon won't end anytime soon, why was Misty yeeted outta the anime?

I repeat.

WHY WAS MISTY YEETED OUT OF THE ANIME, WHEN BROCK WASN'T?

Ahem, Misty was made to leave (more like yeeted out of) the group after the ending of Johto. Coincidence? I think not!

As soon as the writers realised that Pokémon ain't ending anytime soon, they just yeeted Misty out of the anime.

What else do you want people?

Pokeshipping is dead.

Stop trying to dig out gold out of a grave.

Even when Misty returned, there was no character development. No Pokeshipping moments. No aaml.

What other proof you want to know that Pokeshipping is dead?

Just grow out of it people.

I- no, *we* pity you.

Ps: Pokeshipping is dead and amourshipping is canon.

Alright not bad but it's good to see Charizard being back in this.

I never understood this episode. For all intents and purposes Paul literally engaged in poaching in this episode and gets away with it. The writers were super focused on the fact that Paul was leaving the gligar defenseless and completely forgot about the fact that the colony were currently under the protection of the Government while the police and health experts tried to relocate them from the city to the forest. Where they would've stayed under that protection until they were settled properly.

It means he wouldn't have it any other way!

Daisy should've said "Battling is way more fun than I remember it being." Seeing as how they actually did their Gym duties properly up until a string of crushing defeats. And while they let Misty leave they probably never really got back to how it was before then especially once Misty came back.

Why I M O, Pokeshipping is dead. ( kinda hot take, sorry pokeshippers. )

So, pokeshipping. The very 1st ship in the Pokemon anime’s history. I personally am not a fan of it, I did watch the original anime, and I personally don’t like misty’s character. It was off putting to me.

Now as to what your here for, what killed pokeshipping. There are 3 main contributors to the death of pokeshipping.

1.) The length of time from when misty was replaced to now,
2.) Serena and Amourshipping

3.) The Pokémon sun and moon anime

The length of time from when misty was replaced to now. Now while this might not have been much of an issue if the other 2 bullet points didn’t exist, it has been over a decade at this point, since we last saw misty, meaning that we have a severe lack in character development, and that gives time for other potentially better ships to be created, which leads me to my next point,

Serena and Amourshipping. Possibly one of the biggest ships right now, (which at this point isn’t going to fizzle out anytime soon. ) With Amourshipping going so far, as to introduce a major plot point in ash’s story by having Serena be his childhood acquaintance, many other points that multiple poketubers like Catch ‘Em All Saul, bring up in their videos from years past, to the kiss, and even the writers basically confirming the darn thing.

Amourshipping Confirmed?

So at this point, ( unless they throw all that away, which please. Don’t. ) there is next to no hope of pokeshipping to ever become cannon, which is only further proven by my last point,

The Pokémon sun and moon anime. Now, this is honestly the iceberg that sank the ship, because Brock and Misty returned twice in the Sun and Moon anime, which I’m pretty sure was for let’s go promotion. Now this is where all hope is lost for pokeshipping because even though they returned twice, Misty had literally zero emotional moments with ash whatsoever. No pokeshipping pandering, no flashbacks, nothing. Here’s another video explaining that further.

They did Misty DIRTY!

Now while the only good thing to come out of the re-return episodes was Brock possibly finally finding a girlfriend,

Brock x Olivia

This was the point of no return for Misty and pokeshipping in general. Misty, even though she returned twice, in the most recent anime, had literally no development, and nothing to show how she grew as a character since her absence, her return seems pointless and devoid of substance, and with another ship still gaining popularity at an exponential rate, I’m sorry pokeshippers, but,

It’s time to pay your respects, and move on.

RIP pokeshipping

1997-2023