Pokemon Anime: 25th Anniversary Special
 

https://comicbook.com/anime/news/pok...-hour-special/

Didn't know they're now setting Ash on the path to being a full fledged Pokemon Master. I know they gave him a new sidekick that could potentially take over the franchise if he completes his story, but will they go through with that?

This has actually been what he's been doing since 2019 when this series started after the Sun/Moon anime ended, this isn't new. This year is just the conclusion of the current arc.

I fell out of the anime with each season. Loved the original, loved orange islands, Johto is meh but liked Master Quest, loved Advanced, DP felt a bit long and not as unique as Advanced but still good. I watched everything until then. BW just killed it for me after resetting Ash, I meant to watch it one day completely but never did, the little I watched was not good. XY seemed a much needed improvement but I was still burnt so I didn't watch much outside of key episodes. Sun and Moon seemed fun but barely watched outside of a few episodes as well.

The new season seems like they've really been going all out with recurring characters coming back and tons of fanservice. It seems almost like the season we've all wanted for years I just haven' t been compelled to watch any of it. Probably has to do with the fact that Gamefreak has been halfassing Pokemon since Gen 4 so I got burnt out at the same time that the anime finally got its act together.


I just hope if they do retire Ash (which I doubt will happen), that he goes out to live his life with Misty, if only just to make fans Seethe and have all the casuals who only watched the first season rejoice.

This season is going to end with Ash battling Leon from the Sword/Shield games. But with the new Scarlet/Violet games announced, who knows if we'll be back to the same routine next series with Ash in Spain with the usual new companions, etc.

The flash forward in the original Japanese trailer for Mewtwo Strikes Back reveals Misty has always been his endgame and that they have a daughter together, so it'd make sense to harken back to that at last.

He's done it.

It’s about time.

I still haven’t forgiven Charizard for costing him the first victory.

The fact it's Leon's Charizard that Pikachu defeats to secure the championship is karmic genius

They showed all of Ash's friends watching his victory:

https://twitter.com/Pokefan6735/stat...18294907400192

Given this is Ash beating the strongest champ in the world, it's a much bigger deal than the Alola league victory from 3 years ago.

It's hard to avoid spoilers these days.:lol:

Lots of articles recently have been teasing that this may be the end of the anime. We'll see...

I don't think we'll lose animated Pokemon entirely, we'll probably see more like the limited specials and Youtube mini-series they've done over the years, I just think they're done making a weekly series

That's true and I'm sure it's what some people wanted for a long time. But it's hard to see them move away from Ash mainly because of how long it's been going on plus with Pikachu being the mascot.

There will be news about the future of the Pokemon anime on Friday following transmission of the next episode in the Project Mew storyline. According to the press conference TV-Tokyo held this week, Satoshi/Ash's story is not over, but may be handled in a different way. There was also no confirmation yet that the anime will adapt Generation 9.

https://twitter.com/DogasusBackpack/...15408649007104

The Sun and Moon series and Journeys went in different directions so I'm curious to see how much more different this new series will be. Personally I'd like to see an older Ash around 11 or 12 but I won't hold my breathe.:lol: Would be nice to see him train some of his Pokemon that are at Prof. Oak's.

Personally I want to see someone else take the lead and let it end with the big reveal that the final challenger at the big event will be an older more experienced Ash.

And it's official, Ash and Pikachu are both being retired and the anime will continue with new leads

There will be an eleven episode 'wrap up' for all of our familiar characters starting in January.

Well the rumors were true, they're finally moving away from Ash and giving us a new anime with different protagonists. I kinda wish Ash could've evolved some of his Pokemon (like Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Quilava, etc.) and I know his Bulbasaur didn't want to evolve but it would've been nice if it had...oh well.

I think this new series will be worth checking out.

It’s about time we got a new cast of characters. I might actually pick up Pokémon again

Now, to the most important question

https://twitter.com/daitomodachi6/st...43589816737793

:D

I don't think Dawn would ever have a chance with Ash.:lol:

I think another important question is who is Ash's father? Plot twist...an adult Red.

Or Giovanni and then Professor Oak became his stepfather!

The GS Ball plot was cleared up, but he never went back for Pidgeot.Padgett.


I always thought that the flashforward from Mewtwo Strikes Back had Ash with Misty. If Power Rangers is foolish enough to stick with Tommy and Kat why not give 90s' kids this.:trazz:

The Giovanni theory has been teased around for so long that it's just too ridiculous at this point. Plus I believe there was one episode in Black and White where Ash briefly encountered him for the first time.

As for Oak, isn't he too old for Ash's mom?:teek: I don't think Ash would be too thrilled with that especially if it meant being related to his rival Gary.

Yeah, blame Pokémon Live!. It seems every franchise has to have it's Empire Strikes Back twist. This one is interesting to me personally.


I am just thinking back to when I watched the first seven seasons which depicted Cordelia and Oak as particularly close.

The new girl protagonist will likely have no relation to Ash at all, shippers who are wasting their time coming up with conspiracy theories of this being some sort of timeskip are fooling themselves. The anime writers are likely mandated by Nintendo not to age the characters, because then they would have to age the various Gym leaders or Prof. Oak or whoever, and it would conflict with game canon. This is the same reason Ash stayed 10 all these years to begin with.

Who is still in the games though? Aren't Ash and Misty and whoever else just a memory by now in the games? It seems every new game gets a new professor too. When's the last time Oaks has even been in a game not based on the original Red and Blue? Hell, when's the last time Team Rocket has been in a game?

Pokemon moved on long ago from the original cast. It would be like a long running Donkey Kong cartoon that would add new characters like Diddy and such but they were still stuck with the plot of Mario trying to rescue Pauline from DK even though that hasn't been revisited in years.

https://www.tumblr.com/yamujiburo/70...465025024/pain

Team Rocket say goodbye to Ash and Pikachu, 4th wall joke and all courtesy of one of the long running storyboard artist.

Episode descriptions for parts two and three of the Ash farewell series are out

Episode Two

Ash and Misty have a fishing battle to determine who catches a clauncher


Episode Three

Ash and Misty meet up with Brock and Cilan. Brock is depressed, having recently been dumped, and his unhappiness attracts a hatterene

Ash's final chapter begins next week

Well Cilan from the BW anime is confirmed to be in episode 3:

https://twitter.com/Akilvers/status/1611328554041769984

So this proves Misty/Brock won't be the only old companions in this, and the following eps will probably bring back the other old characters too for 1 ep each. I kind of figured as much, the anime ran for 25 years so they want to celebrate it as a whole and not just with the original two companions.

Hopefully Giovanni/Team Rocket get a conclusion near one of the last eps too, that's the only real thing I need to see resolved by the end.

I might check this out if older characters are back. I had to look up who Cilan was, though, since I haven’t bothered with dubs since the Orange Islands or the American games since Gen 2 as Pokémon is one of the easiest games to play in Japanese.

So they run into Dento. I liked him in Pokémon Best Wish before I grew bored of that series. I don’t even know how it ended. I know N showed up for it and I wasn’t watching it by them. Sucks that a whole storyline was being set up and then dropped because of the 3/11 stuff (Tohoku quake/tsunami). I also liked the Rockets more and seemed to be going for how they were probably initially supposed to have been. They were implied to be a threat in the beginning of the series as well as competent. I also liked how they weren’t always after Pikachu. They had a scheme and the “twerps” get involved in some way or come across it…Pikachu being around to catch was coincidental. The earlier eps were like this too. Also funny how Sakaki/Giovanni, unless it’s changed, has never ordered them to go after Pikachu. They decided that on their owns after witnessing the attack Pikachu used and figured he wouldn’t mind having it.

Hope Kenji pops up. I know a lot didn’t care for him, but I liked that he was an artist/researcher type character.

The whole Satoshi/Ash x Kasumi/Misty thing would be an interesting thing to make canon, or hint at possibly becoming canon, if aging them up or something. It’s obvious from her side anyway from that special years back when she ran into that baseball otaku girl whose name escapes me and boys were trying to pursue her at her gym for it iirc, which had her rejecting them and the baseball girl caught on, putting Kasumi on the spot. Satoshi is trickier given how his character was changed a bit (making him more oblivious to romance) given that the show went on longer than originally intended and was initially supposed to have ended after that first movie if I’m not mistaken. I guess the strongest hint for him is the summer festival episode where Takeshi/Brock was ignored by the pair for the majority of it since they were enjoying the festival. When Kasumi appeared in her yukata, we see her from Satoshi’s perspective and it had that typical bubbly, sparkly, I think the girl is cute/attractive anime background trope thing going on. I don’t know if that’s been done with other female companions since Kanto and the Orange Islands are the only series I’ve seen all the way through.

You're not aware of Serena then? Count yourself fortunate.

i was referring to Satoshi, not the female companions. Have they ever shown a girl from his perspective in the way it was done for the example I brought up with Kasumi in the yukata? It’s a common trope that with that type of background, the character looking finds said character cute or attractive or whatever.

I mentioned that the first two series are the only ones I’ve seen in their entirety, not that I haven’t seen any of the other series preceding them. The only series I have never seen any of are the ones after X/Y. The anime just doesn’t hold my interest. I still like Kanto best out of what I have seen since the show wasn’t being catered to an international audience yet. I miss the Japanese references, whether it was something music-related (SMAP comes to mind) or a play on words (mushi/ushi) or a tv one (exeggute ep) or current trends going on at the time (Vulpix/Rokon ep with the breeder and how the fashion trend in the ep was one going on at the time; Satoshi also called Kasumi cute that ep in kind of a “Yeah, yeah, you’re cute” kind of way…not sure if he did for the dub…or maybe it was the Erika ep…one of them. lol). I love stuff like that.

I know about Serena and I hated her reason as to why she decided to become a trainer and how everything up to a point revolved around Satoshi. Any goal she had, it was because of her crush on him. At least Kasumi’s goals didn’t revolve around him. I also saw the kiss thing, but Satoshi didn’t really react to it in my opinion.

My apologies, I misread your post

I've never seen anyone dislike Serena except for shippers.

I doubt there will be any type of shipping ending. It'll just show Misty have the usual teasing comments with Ash, and if Serena actually appears in one of the last episodes, it'll probably be the same.

No worries. It happens sometimes. ^_^Who dislikes her? I didn't see anyone in the thread say that they disliked her. I know for myself I disliked her reason for getting into training and stuff, not that I disliked her in particular.Yeah, you're probably right. I doubt they'd do anything "shipping" wise, unless they aged up the characters or something. Besides, seems that canonically, the only two actual characters that could possibly end up with Satoshi are Kasumi/Misty or Serena since they've actually been romantically linked to him within the show itself.

Have the new episodes been subbed yet? I haven't been following the Pokemon anime in a while & I'm not sure where I could watch 'em. Kissanime has a lot but I'm not sure if it's current.

All of the current series has been subbed

What's the like, name of the current season?

It's either Pokemon Journey's or Pokemon 2019, that's the 136 episode series that just finished. These new episodes don't start till this Thursday.

Misty returned today.

The two had their usual sweet and sour moments. Misty was very proud of Ash becoming the champion, but lost it when she realized he'd replaced the fishing lure she gave him. The two fought over the right to catch a Pokemon, Misty got her win back from Sun and Moon, but Ash got her in the end as she surprised him in the forest and told him she'd like to travel with him.

It's a shame they never have too many episodes where it's just the two of them, their chemistry is as off the charts as it's always been. And the look of pure joy on Misty's face as it sunk in they were travelling together again...sqqueeeee.