Will Iris And/Or Cilan Continue Travelling With Ash?

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Since this will probably be a big topic, I decided to be the one to make the thread for it.

Judging by TV Tokyo's press release lacking any details on Iris or Cilan, their future for the XY series seems bleak, but not definite! Do you think Iris and/or Cilan will continue travelling with Ash to the Kalos region or will he be travelling with new companions?
 
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Bye Iris, Bye Cilan. Since they aren't really important friends of Ash's, they will be gone. Like Tracey, May, Max and Dawn.
 
One or two of new "rivals" from Pokemon XY will be joining him I think. I can see Shauna being one. Perhaps Tierno as well?
 
For some reason I can see Ash teaming up with Tierno and Shauna, too.

Tierno because of his odd hobbies. And Shauna because she's ambiguously brown genki girl, who else better to replace Iris with.
 
I'd like to see an Anime only character so they don't feel constrained by trying to fit in with the game storyline for them.

Out of the characters so far, I can't see either Tierno or Shauna traveling with Ash. I'd like someone based on Serena as the main girl and Brock to randomly return/Cilan stay.
 
Moe said:
I'd like to see an Anime only character so they don't feel constrained by trying to fit in with the game storyline for them.

Out of the characters so far, I can't see either Tierno or Shauna traveling with Ash. I'd like someone based on Serena as the main girl and Brock to randomly return/Cilan stay.
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I wouldn't be against anime-only characters joining the cast, but that does seem unlikely. While I could see them having Shauna traveling with Ash, I'd much rather see Serena as the main girl with Cilan staying. Brock randomly returning would work too.

There's absolutely no chance of Iris sticking around. Every female character lasts for only one series and they've already setup for Iris to leave with Clair appearing. Cilan could go either way at this point. Brock wasn't mentioned in the initial announcement for DP and neither was Ash for that matter, so there's a chance that he could stick around. Brock coming back is possible, but pretty unlikely too.
 
I personally hope for Tierno and Shauna to replace Cilan and Iris. I think with Iris' goal and her ending up at the Opelucid gym, her place is at Unova so I don't think we'll be seeing her. Cilan is a toss up because he really isn't required to stay at the gym. And besides, knowing what we know of the gyms in the games, the anime writers could pull a BW2 on the triplets' gym so Cilan can really just travel with Ash.

However, I want to see what the anime does to these new game characters in more expansive roles. I find Tierno interesting and I think him having an in-game goal would be great for the writers to use. They don't have to make up a goal for him like they had to with Brock and Cilan and I think the idea of a pokemon dance team has an interesting potential imo. As for the female replacement for Iris, I think Shauna seems likely to work. From how she looks like so far, I think her energy can mesh well with an Ash and co. group dynamic. With that said, I could see Trevor and Serena work as rivals from the impression I get from them.

So in short: my guess is for Iris to be replaced, Cilan's a toss up, and possible choices so far are the 4 Kalos supporting characters we've seen so far with preference towards Tierno/Shauna and Trevor/Serena as rivals.
 
I doubt Iris and Dent will be Satoshi's traveling companions in X&Y, but personally I would love to see them in the new anime, specially if the writing is improved. I mean, they were pretty nice characters in Best Wishes, that is one of, if not the worst Pokémon anime series ever wrote. The bad side is that Kibago would still be around and I can't stand that thing anymore. They could always evolve it, but that is even more unlikely than Iris and Dent not being scrapped in the X&Y anime.
 
XY has a lot rivals, I'm sure one or more of them will (un)luckily traveling with Ash :p
 
I could tolerate Cilan but I don't want to see them again.
 
It's not that I'd miss Iris... But... I'd really miss her team. Out of all of Ash's traveling companions... Iris has been the strongest. I like that a main character has a Dragonite. Wish they'd make Axew stronger/Evolve.

Adios Cilan you cold empty shell.
 
Hope Cilan stays. Iris will go(I will miss Excadrill). How popular is Cilan? If many likes him he wil most likely stay.
 
They are gonna both go. I just don't think that dent and iris will stay in the group.
 
I really hope Dent stays - he seems like he'd fit in Kalos perfectly! Iris can go; I feel that her story is more 'finished' than Dent's, there isn't much of a reason for her to stay.
 
I hope they both leave, but I'd guess that Cilan will be the only one coming back. I hope, and I mean I desperately hope that Shauna does NOT become Ash's traveling companion. There's nothing I like about her, and the the only thing that could possibly change my mind would be her attitude. I'd like to see Serena travel as I feel like she could probably take over the Brock-role, or even be a battler herself. She seems fun.
 
I don't know why, but I want all three of them; Trevor, Shauna and Tierno, to travel with Ash this time... Maybe each one could fit into a different role in the gang...

Also, now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it could be fun to have Iris on XY too, but maybe not as a companion but as a rival, you know, because of Fairies...
 
I really hope Iris and Cilan leave; mainly because I extremely dislike them both. Also, I don't see them doing anything like Johto and keeping the previous companions with Ash from one region to the next. They'd most likely end up becoming stale like Brock did so I'd rather them move on to new, hopefully better, companions.
 
Chances for both staying are unlikely because character faith in show like Pokemon unfortunately isn't determined through amount of potential and room left to grow forward, but in how compatible someone is with current generation and what would be most proficient way to advertize new games product.

While i wouldn't be against Iris staying to shake things up and change a bit already incredibly predictable formula announcement of Clair playing role in BW anime, whole build up and implication of possibly becoming gym leader of Opelucid City in future if Drayden was something to go by heavily indicates how she is going to be replaced for next girl.

With Cilan he happens to be more flexible if anything than because writers haven't build him up for anything currently leaving his story and dreams largely undefined and open not providing any signs of in what direction things will continue to flow.

Not to mention seeing how new region is based on France makes perfect sense for him to go there fitting his flamboyant personality and fascination acting like child sometimes over various hobbies like trains, fishing, putting himself in role of detective etc. After all whole reason he decided to join Ash was because he was fascinated with his battling strategy and usage of unorthodox combinations wanting to learn more about his style so having him stay with Ash past Unova to enrich his knowledge and learn more would make sense.

Dark Kyriaki said:
Both of them needs to go. We don't need them staying around and ending up getting stale like Brock
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To be perfectly honest handling of one character doesn't create paradigm through which we can indicate in what way others would be treated in case of staying for longer. Needless to say whether someone became stale or not is subjective.
Especially with Iris or Cilan who are much more engaged in action, battles, entering tournaments etc making easier for writers to keep them proactive.

If anything keeping one of them for longer would allow writers to make sequel of what was established before diving more in their stories, explore more on characterization and interactions through new and innovative ideas, have their characters go through changes and updates being took in new directions following up and going on bigger things.

While doubtful, personally i wouldn't mind at very least Cilan staying for Kalos.
 
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