I don't understand why people call this cheap? I just watched a 3 minute preview trailer and I actually prefer this style of animation over the one in X/Y. X/Y looked bland. This seems to have more soul and charm to it.

I think the opening also speaks for itself. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOfgeixM7s

Even some fans of the show noticed that this new series has a lot more personality and expression.

The video I previously posted here showed that there a lot more things that characters can do now through this type of animation.

Rica Matsumoto, the Masako Nozuma of Pokemon, is as energetic as ever voicing Ash and singing the new OP.

In a way, I kinda compare this change to that of Digimon Adventure to Adventure Tri.

Still frames never do animaton justice. Yes this might look funny as a meme, but the actual part in the anime this is taken from actually has amazing animation quality and a fluidity that you almost never find in shonen anime. Yes, the faces are disorted, but that's clearly a stylistic choice to show the characters emotional turmoil. It might not work to a mainstream viewer, but that does not actually mean it's bad.

As for the new Pokemon style, having seen it in action, I actually quite like it. I reminds me of studio ghiblis style a little. They seem so be going so a bit of a more fluid, expressive stlye, wich again looks great in motion and bad in freeze frames.

Out of curiosity, I skimmed through episode 2 on youtube. The animation is pretty solid, especially when Ash uses the Z move. Pretty high standards were set for the series animation wise after Greninja vs Charizard, but this new series aint as bad as everyone thinks.

That is what I figured. No way that would slip by unapproved. Still though, it looks so ...Wtf ... its hilarious. 

Yeah, it does. And it's very exaggerated too. But even when you look at real life camera footage frame by frame especiallly with 30+ fps you will get some wierd freeze frames inbetween.

It's just a bit sad that something that is actually part of the best animation of the series, gets held up as some kind of low point. If you want to see some really bad and lazy animation check out Sailor Moon Crystal. That shit's atrocious.

Most of what you said here boils down to: I don't like the art style. That's fine.

But it was clearly a concious choice on the studios part to do it this way and the animation quality itself is actually not bad, wether you personally like it or not.

Saying that it's not inkeeping with the manga or with other episodes are valid complains, still they have nothing to do with the animation quality.

As for your complaint about the frame skipping cloak, look at the rest ot the scene. I'd say that was a concious choice to make the thing look wierd and otherworldly, sort of like horrorfilms ulitilze skipped and sped up frames to give ghosts eery movement patterns. That might not be true, but it's how it looks to me. (Also gifs are not the best way to show of fluid animations, people often drop frames while making them because of file size.)

My best guess is that, since the fight was not in the manga they decided to give the animators a bit more of a free reign to experiment.

All the more reason I'm glad I stopped watching this troll show!

Easy, they wanted to copy Yokai watch.

Hahahahahahahaha, amazing simply amazing, hahahaha, i grew tired of Naruto and never reached that part, hahahahahaha you made my day sir. Hahahahahahahah , this goes on to show that limited animation will never die, even in the highest profile animes, ahahahahahaha.