This one is better than the prequel. This region gets ash in the top, where he might've won first, but this region makes ash start the trend of losing forever to make it seem like he never ages, but he does age, just keeps him looking young.....weird. This season ash gets May and annabelle (second to last frontier brain) there might've been another girl or 2 earlier, but highly doubt it. They scuffed charizard in the end lost first round and didn't defeat a dusclops. On the contest side of things they did great as a first time, they introduced a gay harley out of nowhere,where he is a like-able character, second favorite character. I think this region of anime they introduced combo attacks, but I think I am wrong, maybe they did that last in original pokemon. Well let me tell you who is my favorite character, it is the magikarp dude, he showed up like 3 or 4 times it's before the frontier arc. Pokemon advanced starts off good like always, but then it always seems like it's getting stretched out, this does have quite a bit of filler, just skim it, but if it looks like a good ep watch it, if not skim through or skip. There are a few good fillers and or eps not really needed. Ash's life lessons and advice/teaching of brandon, just got forgotten in next season, ash's dense and idiotic ways have to live on for the kids, can't have some smart kid on tv, the kids find the stupid hot headed ways of protags cool.
Story-6
Art-7
Sound-7
Character-7
Enjoyment-6
Overall-7