I like both but manga tend to have a better plot than its anime. Sometime I prefer an anime because of colors, voice acting and soundtrack. If a character was looking outside a window for a short while, I'd be immersed. In a manga I'd probably just stare for a second and flip the page. But some things only work in manga too, like pretty much everything Junji Ito does. One thing I find sad about mangas is that they don't get enough recognition, people would rather watch the anime, if there is an anime about it at all...

I don't remember all that well, I never missed an episode when it aired on tv but I think they stop airing on my channel during Johto. One problem with Pokémon is, as judgmentoftherain stated above, there is no progression. Like maybe if you beat everyone you are a pokémon master but actually that just makes you the champion of the league. Maybe you gotta catch'em all but by the time Ash catch 10 pokémons, the season is already over and a new 100 are released. Maybe you're supposed to take care of them and learn the secret of love and learn everything about moves and types? That's more of a Brock thing, Ash just yells love and friendship and courage. Then Pokémon is an anime meant to sell games, it's one big ad. It doesn't mean it's bad but they just wanna keep going forever as long as it sells. When doing a long running series you gotta keep things fresh so they replace Ash's team and companions every so often... that's a big issue imo! Ash never grows as a character, he's the same idiot that lashes out his pokédex to ask for information no matter if you're in episode 1 or episode 500. The story is never meant to end and because of that there can be no closure or progression. I'm fine with a neverending marketing campaign except you can't tell a good story at the same time. What they should have done is let Ash grow and develop actual skill and learn things, I want to watch a main character actually become stronger. Then you switch out to a new protagonist when his story is over, possibly before introducing a new region and generation. Beyblade and Yugioh switched protagonists because they realized once you're the champion you can't go up anymore. Granted, becoming the strongest =/= character development, but Ash has neither anyway.

"Sitting there in the dark, I had the chance to think about a lot of things, including the nature of the world itself. And after lengthy consideration, I realized something; when all is said and done, this world is an unknowable place. On the surface, all appears rational, orderly. But what lies beyond that thin veneer of reason? Stability and reality? Or chaos and madness? What are we really made of in the end? Is there truly any meaning to the lives we lead? Or are we nothing more than hollow vessels? These are questions we can never answer, because we cannot hope to see beyond the world's fragile layer of skin. So we live our lives filled with uncertainty, never knowing who or what we truly are, or what the future will bring. All we can do is imagine. Life becomes an unsolvable mystery with any number of twists and turns awaiting us. And that's enough to fill any soul with terror." - Kishin Asura

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Suzaku Kururugi from Code Geass. He has a good backstory and a good growth/development but most of the time I just wanna slap him.

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