u/TheGoldminor

For recap, movie 21 was called "the power of us" a really unique pokemon movie, in that is movie about the mismatch group of people possible and ash Ketchum.

Cast Included, a little girl, a teenage girl who wants nothing to do with pokemon, a researcher with zero social skills, a fraud middle age uncle and grandma.

And ash Ketchum has to somehow unify them to a greater plot with zeraora, and I think it was great because unlike other companions none of them are ash's age range, so he doesn't exactly can befriend/bond them as easily like Brock, misty etc.

Made me imagine, if on a hypothetical situation where ash Ketchum return, I feel this would make the perfect premise for a "post world champ ash Ketchum"

He already peaked as a pokemon trainer, but that doesn't necessarily mean he is a pokemon master yet, as he still has things to learn to even come close to it.

And I feel like this is a great way to show it, without necessarily reseting the story like they never happened.

Ash Ketchum now a world champ suddenly end up being force to go on a journey, but with the most ragtag breakfast club crew possible..maybe with different age range just to further make bonding them alot different than his normal companions, and ash Ketchum at the start is the only actual competent trainer...granted the best trainer, but like it's like having, 5 sunkerns and a level 100 mewtwo and zero badges.

Maybe at the very most, we have a true protagonist as the actual protag of the journey, that is similar to ash from the start, the one who will do the gym challenges, have a rival, etc.

But I think for ash, it will also be fun to see ash In different scenario, because now it's HIS job to be the mediator, the mentor and the glue at the same time, man's basically have to be all might, gojo and kakashi all at once.

I don't have a thought for which region this could be held, but maybe a few years after the events of Arceus the very concept of pokemon trainers finally taking shape, essentially making this an actual canon generation 0.

Maybe when This whole trainer thing is establish someone out there invent a new kind of competition called the "pokemon league" in which trainers from all over the globe come into one place compete in to show who is the best, and making them the first ever champion.

Imagine we can see the very system, pokemon league will eventually end up, works on is actually established in real time, like the concept of gym battles, the elite four, maybe the concept of trainer etiquettes like "don't steal trainers pokemon" is firstly shown here.

All set in a victorian style age, though is the pokemon world so I could imagine Alot of vintage future tech like steam punk was the norm already, the return of apricot pokeballs, maybe even see more ancestors like the first generation of the oak family maybe.

Something I always thought if imagine the old pokemon games had an actual modern revision, not that faithful BDSP/let's go remake, but an actual revised city that actually implies that decades of time actually passed by.

And I think of saffron city because it is imply that saffron city and also celadon is based on Tokyo as a whole, and before anyone ask...the Kanto region is named after the actual real life Kanto region of Japan, which consist of multiple other prefecture AND Tokyo, for example vermillion city is confirm to be based on yokohama, which which can take an hour on a JR to commute.

Kinda made me imagine, what if at the very least 30 year pass (but before the events of pokopia), the canon popularity of Kanto, got so huge, it has a large boost in the economy happened that it become the home of the largest metropolis in pokemon.

All the modern revision of lumiouse that was going across legends ZA? yeah that is already finished maybe like decade before ZA even started.

Then we have the typical urban pokemon setting with Tokyo style culture and urbanisation, In spirit like persona 5, replace jack frost with Pikachu.

Like what if there is a mythical Pokemon based on hachiko, or maybe the fashion is inspired by the fashion of harajuku like techwear and lolita is just "casual" wear, I know this is a very "tourist" outlook of tokyo, but I guess that was also kind of like pokemon think of Paris when making ZA.