I mean, don't get me wrong, sure, I do agree with you. The reason a lot of us took issue with this is because Embracer Group is not particular a good... company. Almost none of them are, don't get me wrong, but they literally protected one of their executives after they went on a known website that had more-than-problematic people and there was distribution of under-age-you-know-what on there, and all they could say is an "I'm sorry, we didn't realize", when the site was only known to have extremists that effetely left 4chan. You'd have to intentionally seek out that website.

Anyway, I'd rather just not have major businesses not buy out companies and for anime companies to operate with minimal obstruction of a major conglomerate overseeing everything. Even if Deep Silver/Embrcer Group wasn't a bad place, I'd still feel this way.

It's honestly time and it'd been time for a long time ago. I'm glad we're getting a mini-series focusing on the end of Satoshi/Ash's journey and focusing on the original core cast. I'm really happy to see that the Pokemon anime can finally try to do something new and bring in an entirely new generation. And while Satoshi did work, I think having an entire reset will help bring upon new concepts and things they can experiment with, without having to rely heavily on Satoshi and Pikachu as a core concept. While the style seems to be keeping things somewhat status quo, there's a lot I feel they can do with a new duo.

I'm hoping for the best. Riko (Rico? Lico? Liko?)and Roy could be a good duo and I'm excited about those possibilities.

I won't normally answer Discotek Media questions, since I'm not sure how much I can openly discuss or talk about this particular release, but honestly? With something like Sonic X, while I won't lie, I always wanted to work on an official release of this in some capacity, years ago, it was both exciting, as it was terrifying, to finally be able to work on this. There's a lot of expectations with this release and I'm really hoping I did a good enough job. It was a lot of work for me and my friends at Discotek.

But yeah, needless to say, it was a huge undertaking. I hope you guys enjoy it when it's finally out there. A lot of love and effort went into this release.