Pokémon anime

Netflix is weird like that.

There are at least official clips on YouTube, like this one, although probably not full episodes. (As usual for kids’ videos, they sadly don’t allow comments.)

Edited by Lymantria on Mar 15th 2024 at 4:01:09 AM

Speaking of YouTube clips (and as an experiment to test video playback) this clip may be the weirdest thing I’ve ever experienced. The blue cafe.

That open faced sandwich. That is toast with jam. Except probably without the toasting. You are eating untoasted wet bread, sir.

Yeah, playback ain’t working. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/2uMJMr8i5bg?si=avRsv3EW7mLY_B9z

Edited by kory on Mar 19th 2024 at 2:33:19 AM

test

Edited by Amonimus on Mar 19th 2024 at 12:36:26 PM

New episode.

A quick battle with Sango (Coral) and Onyx (Sidian).

Manju are serious business.

Next week, the big fight....apparently.

Yeah, Rayquaza is finally gonna be caught, whether by the Rising Volt Tacklers or the Explorers.

My guess is everyone loses, then the kids decide to enroll in the Paldea academy and go to school to learn about battling or something. It's kind of weird to me Horizons felt like it was doing its own thing and ignoring the games for about a year, and now they're changing tracks and sending the kids to school and introducing all the Paldea Gym leaders, Elite 4 members, Nemona returning, etc...like we all thought this series would be before it started.

Makes me wonder if it was a mandate from the higher ups that the anime wasn't promoting the games anymore, and they wanted it to be more in-line with the current generation. You have to admit, it was very weird to see the anime make a whole bunch of OC's (the whole Horizon air-ship crew) that aren't in the games when they had a whole bunch of Scarlet/Violet characters to use instead. Now all of the game characters are suddenly appearing when we're going to be 2 years into this gen pretty soon. Definitely feels like a course change from what this series was going to be originally.

Edited by precita on Mar 16th 2024 at 1:53:37 AM

The fact that Horizons have this saga structure (the following "season" is meant to be the third saga of it) makes me think that this was always planned, or at the very least there was always a possibility that it would happen like this. After all, there is still bunch of things from SV that we haven't seen (The Raidons, Paradox Pokémon, Treasures of Ruin, Kitakami and Ogerpon, Blueberry Academy). Like as a reminder, there are still some Pokémon from last generation that we haven't seen in the anime (Calyrex and its steeds, bunch of Pokemon from Hisui).

There are still characters and gym leaders from the previous season who never showed up either aren't there?

<Looks at Nessa fuming in a corner>

In some cases, the Pokemon haven't appeared in person but have only been in visions. They actually have a Hisuian Voltorb in the credits (in a scene where regional variants are compared to their regular counterparts) despite this Pokemon never appearing in person so far. The plot will probably have to move forward eventually given Kleavor and Entei haven't shown up in person yet.

Why do people ship Ritchie and Casey so much? They have nothing to do with each other

I guess because they were both recurring johto characters? Shrug

Richie was introduced near the end of Kanto though.

That being said, I assume they got shipped because they were there.

Also, despite the Paradox Pokemon likely being top secret, Great Tusk also appears in the Horizons credits at one point, makes me wonder if they will appear eventually.

I find it funny how Casey is the only character that cameoed to get a very poorly drawn and ugly cameo (every other character that got one was drawn decently, including Ritchie's brief one in Journeys).

What cameo did she have?

this one:

From A Ripple In Time, it's a Japan-only short the Pokemon You Tube channel uploaded on the Japanese channel.

I know Ritchie's from Kanto. I meant they both had recurring episodes in the Johto seasons.

I get the sneaking suspicion Casey was a prototype for May and later protags. She's introduced in the second Johto episode, is a beginning female trainer just starting her journey like the others, then she meets Ash and learns from him, and has the usual cute/girly regional starter (Chikorita) from the lab. The only difference is of course that Casey couldn't become a main character because Misty was still around at the time.

Everything about Casey's introduction feels like the usual, "Ash meets the new female companion in the new region" type of episode, only she didn't become one. Obviously back then it was never planned, but it's basically the same thing they did with May and later girls.

Edited by precita on Mar 19th 2024 at 5:48:13 AM

That's an interesting way to look at it.

Any reason why Misty being there meant she couldn't join?

Did the writers think no one wanted more than one girl at a time?

That could be why. Though with baseball being a specific goal, it might have been a bit hard to write episodes about it into the anime regularly enough to keep her around in a prominent role.

Well Casey is also an anime OC like Tracey (she's not in the games), so I don't think they wanted to add another anime-original character to the cast at the time. Reuniting the original trio at the time was a big deal.

I do wish Casey appeared in more than just 3 Johto eps though. Kinda mind blowing you introduce a new character and then only have them appear in 3 episodes over a 156 ep saga. Like I never understood why the writers barely have characters appear that they themselves introduce..lol

She had her own Chronicles episode + features in another Chronicles episode too. It would have been cool if they did more with her in Johto.

Johto in general was set ups without pay off, really.

Casey has such a unique and marketable design, that it'd be easy to market her to a wider audience. They could've easily done so much more with her.