Ok the pokemon anime. I lost all interest after I saw pikachu lost to a snivy in its first battle in black and white. It pretty was much was dying after they had, in diamond and pearl, a trainer pull out 2 legendaries out his ass just to get ash to lose.(and that was my favorite season too). People say X and Y was a massive improvement but those two scenes killed it because it proves ash will never make any long term progress ever, so what's the point. At least in DBZ goku ages and changes but not in pokemon. I appreciate the manga thou I have not read much(too long for me), because they had at least had the foresight to change protagonist each generation so you will get a different arc each time and character do make long term progress. Red had a cameo and later on it I think and was 16.
That scene made me realize there is no point in continuing if there is no progress as the writers will just pull stunts like that out of thier ass. just a shame....