History Anime / PokemonOrigins

* HumanFocusedAdaptation: The Pokémon are given little in terms of characterization. The plot instead focuses on Red and his story.

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* AdaptationDyeJob: Several characters get a mish-mash of their ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'' designs. A more traditional example is Red's mom, who has blue hair in the games but brown in this anime, most likely to more resemble the "actual anime" version of the character (or to emphasize the family resemblance).

A successor series of 3 to 5 minute shorts, called ''Anime/PokemonGenerations'', released online. Aside from being closer to the games, the two series are unrelated.

''Pokémon Origins'' (known as ''Pocket Monsters: The Origin'' [[MarketBasedTitle in Japan]]) is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' {{OVA}}/four-episode MiniSeries, [[MerchandiseDriven made to assist in promoting]] ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. It aired on October 2nd, 2013 in Japan and began streaming on the North American official site in mid-November of 2013. Following the long-running main ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime series]] itself, ''Pokémon Origins'' is the second animated adaptation of the original ''Videogame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' (preserving more of the plot of ''Red and Blue/Green'' while mixing in elements of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen]]'' as well as ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'') games featuring Red, his [[TheRival rival Blue Oak]], and their adventures across the Kanto region. The animation was split among three studios, Creator/ProductionIG, Creator/OLMIncorporated and Creator/{{Xebec}}.

* WhamShot: Surprisingly, the special contains one not just for itself, but for the then-upcoming ''Videogame/PokemonXAndY''. [[spoiler:Charizard Mega Evolves during the battle with Mewtwo.... but it's a '''different''' Mega form than the one previously revealed. Cue the end of the special showing that Charizard will have ''two'' Mega forms, one for ''X'' and one for ''Y''.]]

* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:Red gets a Mega Stone from Mr. Fuji, and it doesn't activate until the battle with Mewtwo, turning Charizard into Mega Charizard X.]]

* TheCameo: The original black-colored Jynx and a Slowking appear in photos in the Hall of Fame, [[FreezeFrameBonus but only for a couple of seconds]].

* AdaptedOut: Despite being prominent [=NPCs=] in the games, Daisy Oak and Bill are not even included in the cameos.

* AnimationBump: Red's fight with Blue in episode 4 definitely shows signs of this.

* CuttingOffTheBranches: If it's taken to be canon, this series establishes Charmander and Squirtle as the canonical starters for Red and Blue respectively.

* NoExceptYes: Blue, thanks to his DubNameChange, rejects choosing Squirtle because of the color match, only to choose Squirtle because it has a [[ElementalRockPaperScissors type advantage]] over Red's Charmander.

The official releases of the English episodes were initially available on the ''Pokémon TV'' webpage, and they [[http://www.hulu.com/pokemon-origins can now be found]] on Creator/{{Hulu}} and [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/pokemon-origins/id862658212 on iTunes]].

* AdaptationalBadass: Not that Charizard wasn't already {{Badass}}, but [[spoiler: Mega Evolution didn't exactly exist in ''Red and Blue'']].

* {{Badass}}:
** Charizard, of course. After evolving fully, he manages to curb-stomp almost every single foe that he faces, [[spoiler:including '''Mewtwo''' after he becomes Mega Charizard X]].
** Red. He may not be perfect, but it takes balls of steel to do what he does.
---> '''Red:''' I'm going to storm Silph Co. and Team Rocket!
---> '''Blue:''' You're crazy! You need backup.
---> '''Red:''' And that's why you're getting the police. But I'm not gonna let Team Rocket keep abusing Pokémon for the [[spoiler:Master Ball Project.]]
** Giovanni. In the games he calls himself "[[WorldsStrongestMan The Greatest Trainer]]", and here it shows. At Sliph Co. his Nidoqueen easily beats Red's Charizard, [[spoiler:while during his Gym Battle his Rhyhorn takes out most of Red's team]].

** This actually presents a slight problem in that Red picks Charmander as his starter because it matches his name:

A successor series of 3 to 5 minute shorts, called ''Anime/PokemonGenerations'', [[https://youtu.be/wMzwcIG8vgk has been announced.]]

A successor series of 3 to 5 minute shorts, called ''Pokemon Generations'', [[https://youtu.be/wMzwcIG8vgk has been announced.]]

A successor series of 3 to 5 minute shorts, called Pokemon Generations, [[https://youtu.be/wMzwcIG8vgk has been announced.]]

** Charizard is the most powerful Pokémon on Red's team and is able to beat [[spoiler:Mewtwo]] when nothing else, even [[OlympusMons Articuno]], could stand up to it (though it takes Charizard a [[spoiler:[[EleventhHourSuperpower Mega Evolution]]]] to do it.)

** Charizard is the most powerful Pokémon on Red's team and is able to beat [[spoiler:Mewtwo]] when nothing else, even [[OlympusMons Articuno]], could stand up to it (though it takes Charizard a [[spoiler:[[EleventhHourSuperpower Mega Evolution]] to do it.)

** Charizard is the most powerful Pokémon on Red's team and is able to beat [[spoiler:Mewtwo]] when nothing else (even [[OlympusMons Articuno]]) could stand up to it.

* PlotHole: During a conversation in "File 4: Charizard", Blue mentions that he would have had "all 149 Pokémon" after capturing [[spoiler:Mewtwo]]. This apparently includes the (heavily implied to be) [[SingleSpeceminSpecies one-of-a-kind]] Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres that Red already has while strangely missing 1 Pokémon of the InUniverse known 150.

* CompressedAdaptation: It was inevitable. The moments shown in detail are: the beginning, Pewter Gym battle with Brock, the Lavender Town plot, Silph Co., the Viridian Gym Battle, Kanto Champion battle, and [[spoiler Mewtwo]]. Everything else is shown through montages. If a place that was visited at one point only has chronological significance at a later point, it gets more-detailed coverage in a flashback when it becomes significant.

* KnightOfCerebus: A Team Rocket Grunt would prove that the miniseries would be much darker than the main anime series in the second episode by [[spoiler:having him kill Cubone's mother in a flashback.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: A Team Rocket Grunt would prove that the miniseries would be much darker than the main anime series in the second by [[spoiler:having him kill Cubone's mother in a flashback.]]