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I was watching Pokemon Sun Moon. In the answer to this question _["Why did Ash
became a child back in Sun Moon
Series?"](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/38645/why-did-ash-became-
a-child-back-in-sun-moon-series)_ it says that Ash never age so obviously he
didn't became child.

But why did he need to go to Poke-school? He knows a lot on Pokemon and he
went on till the finals in last league (Kalos)


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Why did Ash need to go back to Pokemon School?


As I said in the comments, Pokemon is a series which has been on air for a
long time. But it's still mostly aimed for kids.

Whereas kids watching the first ones are now adults, it would be strange to
have a Ash kid, pro at Pokemons and already knowing everything.

So at each beginning of a new series, they explain everything again for the
new kids watching and because it's important to see a progress. If Ash knew
already everything, had all the Pokemons from various regions, then it would
become boring to follow him on his journey as he will certainly be a lot
stronger than most of his opponents.

By doing as if Ash knew nothing at the beginning of each series, you can then
follow again is evolution and grow up with him.

(Sorry for bad English as I'm French, and hope that you still understand)


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Ash goes back to school because he wanted to. In the first episode of the _Sun
and Moon_ series, Ash and his mother go on vacation to the Alola region.
There, Ash gets excited about seeing new Pokémon and visiting the Pokémon
School. Since he loves Pokémon so much, the idea of learning even more about
Pokémon appeals to him, so he decides to stay in Alola to learn at the school.
There was no need for him to go back to school, but Ash always gets caught up
in the excitement of whatever is going on and whatever interests him. So the
reason he went back to school is because he wanted to go.

While it may seem unusual, there isn't anything terribly out of character
here. Ash routinely gets caught up in excitement about competitions and
festivals, particularly ones that have to do with Pokémon (which is most of
them, if not all). One need only examine all the contests he's eagerly
entered, which includes a bug-catching contest, various aerial sports, various
races, a firefighting contest, filmmaking contests, and many more. In _Sun and
Moon_ Ash has already entered a pancake race, played a game of Pokémon Base,
done a scavenger hunt, and competed in a Charjabug race. So other than the
time commitment school takes, it isn't much of a change for Ash to get excited
about school and enroll (and anyway, he apparently still has plenty of time to
train, explore Alola, and take the island challenges).


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He didnt become a child, it was his own decision to join pokemon school
because he thought it was cool and it had cool pokemon


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Until now, the games the anime were based off were a big map with 8 gyms with
routs connecting to each town and city and the player needed to take all the
way to each different towns and cities, which in the anime comes out as an
adventure to ash like the player.

[![Sinnoh's
Map](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d86pM.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d86pM.jpg)

But in Sun and Moon games, GameFreak changed the formula, there isn't any more
large towns and routes but central areas and maybe even little village on 4
not so big islands, making the player go back and forth doing the scattered
Island Challenges to obtain Z-crystals, although the gameplay hasn't changed
very much the adventure make a big difference from the other Pokemon games,
the long gameplay isn't because of the big map as in the previous game but due
the missions and the story, so in the anime, the usual Ash's adventure style
won't work with the Sun and Moon formula or either will be a really short one
(much like the Orange Island league), so the studio decided to change the
formula of the anime too and bring back Ash to school while meeting the new
species, Alola forms and the island challenge in the school framework,
although Ash ash himself have very much knowledge of Pokemon.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ME8B6.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ME8B6.png)


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