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This week's plot was completely different to any Celebi one. Celebi was barely even in it
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Hopefully Mr. Mime and Farfetch'd evolve so Ash can have some actual Galar Pokémon in the eight generation anime.
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An episode about Celebi that doesn't involve time travelling shenanigans (and gets barely featured?). That's something at least. Was a little meh episode after all. Go's backstory is nice, although the second part of the episode was... weird. He rage catches the same kind of Pokémon that he was running away from 2 years ago, and he finds his lost friend and it ends... I'm hoping we see Tokio again.
Opening
It was interesting, there are lots of great sequences, but many slideshows and reused footage too.
The Alolan cast minus Lillie is great to see, will they help Ash overcome his losing streak? They were all on different locations the last time, but I guess enough time has passed. I'm rioting if we don't see Kukui and Burnet's kid.
Raihan is finally here! His 5 seconds on the opening have more character and personality than the entire episode were his boring doppleganger appeared.
Go's officialy confirmed as Hop's substitute. Although I'm not sure why the Darkest Day is so soon, guess that's another thing they can try to do with the new anime. I really hope they make it work.
They keep teasing Koharu, even including Yamper on Ash's team. After 2 nice episodes with her, let's see if they can keep featuring the poor gal.
I almost closed the browser when Team Rocket appeared with the Rocket Gachat right on the middle. Guess I won't truly enjoy TR this series. At least they're not BW-level bad.
Galarian Farfecth'd has really cool potential with all those scenes, but they need to be translated into screentime on the episodes themselves. With Riolu hogging the episodes, Pikachu being needy and Gengar MIA, I'm not expecting much tho. And with the writers lack of ability of balancing Ash and Go, I'm expecting even less.
Flygon and Heracross apparently join Go's select group of "Pokémon that are not fodder and try to be characters". Very sad they're reusing a Heracross. What is Skwovet doing there? Cinderace coming soon, probably related to the random Marshtomp and Ludicolo scene (which is probably the evolution of the dancing Lombre).
An episode about Celebi that doesn't involve time travelling shenanigans (and gets barely featured?). That's something at least. Was a little meh episode after all. Go's backstory is nice, although the second part of the episode was... weird. He rage catches the same kind of Pokémon that he was running away from 2 years ago, and he finds his lost friend and it ends... I'm hoping we see Tokio again.
Opening
It was interesting, there are lots of great sequences, but many slideshows and reused footage too.
The Alolan cast minus Lillie is great to see, will they help Ash overcome his losing streak? They were all on different locations the last time, but I guess enough time has passed. I'm rioting if we don't see Kukui and Burnet's kid.
Raihan is finally here! His 5 seconds on the opening have more character and personality than the entire episode were his boring doppleganger appeared.
Go's officialy confirmed as Hop's substitute. Although I'm not sure why the Darkest Day is so soon, guess that's another thing they can try to do with the new anime. I really hope they make it work.
They keep teasing Koharu, even including Yamper on Ash's team. After 2 nice episodes with her, let's see if they can keep featuring the poor gal.
I almost closed the browser when Team Rocket appeared with the Rocket Gachat right on the middle. Guess I won't truly enjoy TR this series. At least they're not BW-level bad.
Galarian Farfecth'd has really cool potential with all those scenes, but they need to be translated into screentime on the episodes themselves. With Riolu hogging the episodes, Pikachu being needy and Gengar MIA, I'm not expecting much tho. And with the writers lack of ability of balancing Ash and Go, I'm expecting even less.
Flygon and Heracross apparently join Go's select group of "Pokémon that are not fodder and try to be characters". Very sad they're reusing a Heracross. What is Skwovet doing there? Cinderace coming soon, probably related to the random Marshtomp and Ludicolo scene (which is probably the evolution of the dancing Lombre).
Mowing down grass with razor sharp attacks to find creatures to catch is the most "just turn your brain off to enjoy it" thing. Might as well torch the grass with a flame thrower to get them to come out lol.
He's using pokemon moves to find pokemon in an area where he can't see any pokemon that are potentially hiding. It isn't as dumb as you imply it to be.
Yes, if the lawnmower only mildly inconvenienced the rats when you ran them over.
That's where the turn the logic off and accept it as a cartoon comment comes in. Gou literally mowing down their homes so he can abduct them lol. Dont get me started on how these moves are described as being capable of cutting pokemon into pieces in the lore.
given this is a series about capturing wild animals for the sake of arena fighting, it's par for the course
Ah I see, I guess pokemon already stresses my suspension of disbelief so much already it didn't even phase me lol
Its not a big deal at all, just an amusing concession. Got no problem with Link breaking things in peoples houses to find rupees.
Yeah good to see. Wonder if that Volcano scene is where aerodactyl is.
Not sure what we can really get out of an Alolan visit (which seems to be happening in September) with THOSE characters, Goh will meet them and all but need confirmation that TR will be in the cast list first...(Morpeko is also starting to turn into a Jigglypuff-esque figure @ep 33)
Aerodactyl can mega evolve, but I really don't need to see one with Ash unless his Charizard wants to kill it
Ash will also be battling Bea 2 vs 11 (might as well have made it 12)
Stoked to see Goh start catching legendaries >:) Goh not having a Pikachu in the OP raises an eyebrow however
Aerodactyl can mega evolve, but I really don't need to see one with Ash unless his Charizard wants to kill it
Ash will also be battling Bea 2 vs 11 (might as well have made it 12)
Stoked to see Goh start catching legendaries >:) Goh not having a Pikachu in the OP raises an eyebrow however
I wanna see more fluid battles like this.
Very Naruto-like, but damn it looks cool. Also highlights the contrast between the two fighting types battle styles.
Very Naruto-like, but damn it looks cool. Also highlights the contrast between the two fighting types battle styles.
Either aerodactyl breaks into the lab or someone def catches it. It looks pretty pissed par the course for the species.
I definitely interpreted it as a Gohmon in the opening, also that isn't the lab.
Eh looks like it to me. It still has large windows without the designs on them in the dome. But if it's not I hope it's a Jurassic park type place. I love me some fossil Pokémon.
The opening was still pretty vague if Gou had it or not. It didn't come out of anyone's Pokéball nor was it really part of the attack against Gou. But yeah I wouldn't be at all surprised if he got it.
Edit: here's the trailer. Also can hear Satio
The opening was still pretty vague if Gou had it or not. It didn't come out of anyone's Pokéball nor was it really part of the attack against Gou. But yeah I wouldn't be at all surprised if he got it.
Edit: here's the trailer. Also can hear Satio
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Each series is a good start but yeah, start with XY and go on from there. These three sagas are the best ones they've had
XY-->SM-->JN does feel like the most consistent saga by saga continuation we've gotten since BW. It really does feel like Ash and Pikachu have been pretty consistent the whole way through. SM Ash is a big juxtaposition if you're not expecting his more laid back attitude but I'd argue early SM Ash does showcase maturity that people don't give him credit for. In retrospect, it does kinda make BW feel like the awkward in-between. I'm not knocking it per say it's just an observation I've made
It's just crazy to me that we're actually dealing with an Ash who is out to literally challenge the most powerful trainers in the world. Really makes me excited about this saga's late-game episodes.
It's just crazy to me that we're actually dealing with an Ash who is out to literally challenge the most powerful trainers in the world. Really makes me excited about this saga's late-game episodes.
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I would say "Let's hope Ash catches Eternatus for some crazy late game stuff", but let's face it, Goh will
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I mean look at his Alola team
Pikachu
Incineroar
Rowlet
Lycanroc (Exclusive event form before SWSH)
Naganadel (Legendary Ultra Beast)
Melmetal (Mythical)
He's getting there haha
Ash and Lillie are nothing close to a ship and the anime doesn't use its girls like that
Lillie and her brother will likely appear in a Mohn recovering arc that the writers are hoping to use during Journeys
Well, she did gave her most favorite pokedoll to him on offscreen. Satoshi even put it alongside his trophy.
iirc Serebii said he had to deal with shippers on the forums. Its weird to think about how grown adults caring way too much about which 10 y/o characters are paired up.
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I think it was Archaic from Bulbapedia who, back in the day, convinced me to put a "Shippers" forum on the site, before he made Bulbapedia as he was an admin at Serebii. Shipper communities are so terrifyingly weird.
There's many more adults :p
I love how I always used Serebii as a source for info on Pokémon when I played and later told my kids that if they searched for something they should use a good source like Bulbapedia.
Couple of weeks ago my daughter said: dad, there is this really good site to use if you want to know stuff about moves etc. Serebii
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She's been playing/watching Pokémon for about 6 years now, completely bummed that Journeys is not out here in the Netherlands. So she is now watching it in Japanese with English subs. She's 10. Not native English but she understands it really well. (Paused the episode, let her read out the sub and tell me what it meant)
So now she's and improving her English reading and picking up some Japanese words. (Starts to call the Pokémon by their Japanese names as well)
Think I'm going to look into how to get her to learn a bit more Japanese.
I haven't seen much of Journeys yet, but have started watching SM from the beginnning.
Couple of weeks ago my daughter said: dad, there is this really good site to use if you want to know stuff about moves etc. Serebii
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She's been playing/watching Pokémon for about 6 years now, completely bummed that Journeys is not out here in the Netherlands. So she is now watching it in Japanese with English subs. She's 10. Not native English but she understands it really well. (Paused the episode, let her read out the sub and tell me what it meant)
So now she's and improving her English reading and picking up some Japanese words. (Starts to call the Pokémon by their Japanese names as well)
Think I'm going to look into how to get her to learn a bit more Japanese.
I haven't seen much of Journeys yet, but have started watching SM from the beginnning.
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Not as well as it used to with the overnight ratings, but it does a lot better in the other formats
Nowadays, TV Tokyo and TPC put the episodes region locked on Youtube. It's also immediately on Amazon and hulu plus there's TV Tokyo catch up & recordings too.
As far as tv ratings go, it doesn't make it to the top 10 anime anymore, so we generally don't even know how it's doing specifically compared to the second half of Sun and Moon (which was also mostly out of the top 10 too).
Yeah, that's kind of what I assumed. It seems the show has become very formulaic and repetitive, other than a new cast of side characters and Pokemon every few years.
I would love to see TPC partner with Netflix or something to do a different take on the anime - maybe a new series similar to Pokemon Origins (which most people seemed to love, myself included). Just something different.
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It's not that it has bad ratings. It has bad overnight ratings. VOD ratings, views on various other media etc. are all high. Take youtube alone. On TPC's channel the episode that aired last week has almost 1 million views and 31k on TV Tokyo's channel. That's geolocked so people outside Japan can't easily access it too. Then add catch up, hulu, Amazon etc., it does well.
This saga and Sun & Moon are hardly formulaic and repetitive considering they all scrapped the structure that came before. SM being slice of life and Journeys being a weird amalgam.
Also, Origins was a 4 part special. You could cut an Ash saga down to 4 episodes like that and it be "epic and amazing" too. I personally don't rate Origins. I felt it was just too nostalgia heavy and beyond the nostalgia, it didn't really do anything new or different
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Origins is pretty bad for people who don't care for pokemon. if you never played the games, it's fucking terrible
now Twilight Wings. that's some good fucking pokemon
Well that's good that streaming seems to be doing well. I haven't watched any main episodes from the last 4-5 seasons, so I might start watching them again if the structure has been changed up a bit.
I actually recently watched this and I agree, it was very good. There were only like half a dozen episodes at ~5 minutes each though and I really wished it was longer.
Kind of gets back to what I was saying...I wish they would just create something different, maybe similar to Twilight Wings, but 10+ episodes at 20+ minutes in length. Put it on a streaming service or something, maybe commit to multiple seasons depending on interest. Just something longer.
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Yeah it has definitely changed up
Up to X & Y it was Ash travels region, meets people, battles gyms, completes league. Other main character participates in other goal which also takes a similar structure
Sun & Moon was slice of life in Alola. Ash joined a Pokémon school and the episodes were mostly day-to-day things and very random such as a random baseball episode etc., though it did end in a league
Current season is almost mimicking the sport anime style thing of Galar. Ash is focused on entering a league to beat some of the world's toughest trainers, takes him around the world. Secondary character Goh has a different goal of catching all Pokémon. This takes them around the world, not travellingh through a region. One week they're in Sinnoh, next Galar, next Unova, next Kalos etc.
Lillie returning feels like a no brainer since her arc with Mohn never really got a conclusion in Sun and Moon. Plus it'd be an opportunity to bring back Gladion as well for a rival battle.
As for Serena, wasn't she going to Johto to participate in Pokemon contests at the end of X/Y? MIght be fun to bring her back alongside Dawn and May for that and even have the three of them all be competing in the same contest