If you watched Pokemon as a kid, you should watch the last 11 episode arc. The entire thing is basically just a huge love letter to those early seasons.
1,234 episodes
Fuck you lmao how dare they pull this shit
How many uninspired trash episodes did they have to pump out to get to the funny number
shes saying she thinks 1234 episodes didnt happen by coincidence and that they pumped out filler to hit a satisfying number
Anyone want to start a rewatch podcast? There's gotta be like ten already but I'll bet there isn't a communist one yet.
edit: okay there's multiple dozen pokemon podcasts lmao, but all the ones billing themselves as "rewatches" either stopped production three years ago or only have one episode out.
Gonna go binge watch the entire show brb in 10 years.
Did he ever catch ‘em all? Or become the master (ew).
Apparently they do explore what being a "Pokemon Master" truly means in the final episode.
It's even called "The Rainbow and the Pokemon Master!"
Professor Oak creates a surgery to add/remove the heart shaped tail divot for trans Pikachus
Is the last season episodes up on crunchyroll or netflix? Also damn this making me sentimental as hell...
To clarify: The anime will continue, but Ash and Pikachu are done as the main protags.
Wait, now I'm even more confused. Why did they wait 26 years to change protagonists?
I guess my question is more along the lines of "why did they wait 26 years to change protagonists instead of just running that shit to the ground like what The Simpsons is doing?"
Weren't some of their alternative protags popular? Maybe they finally feel confident that they can start cycling between the player stand-in characters each game, now that they can reliably have someone cool instead of, I dunno, this doofus.
For most of its existence the Pokemon anime was trash-tier. Even the early seasons that I'm nostalgic for just don't hold up even compared to other shows at the time.
...but for like the past five (maybe ten?) years the quality of the anime has really gone up, and I think the current crop of show runners finally have enough clout within the Pokemon Company to make the big change that the older execs were almost certainly afraid of.
It's not true. The Indigo league season actually holds up as a decent comedy anime with an interesting world. So many similar shows virtualize the game mechanics/world or have it set in an isekai/digital world, while Pokemon tried to actually depict a new world.
It felt like actually playing an RPG game and advancing in it. I always like those kind of shows (few and far between, and they're usually webcomics).
I'd say something along the lines of a show aimed at a pretty young audience has more of a need to change to remain relevant because you don't really "age out" of watching the Simpsons the way you do with Pokemon. They need to keep bringing in new people to replace the ones that grow out of it.
Still doesn't really explain why they waited so long. Maybe just a case of no one wanting to be responsible for tanking a franchise with a bad decision.
Nope, just today. You might be thinking of 1 or 2 of the more recent AU movies starring Red rather than Ash.
Haven't watched since season 1. Used to set my VCR to record it at 7:30 in the morning. I got off my overnight shift at 8am and bam, I'm hitting the bong and watching Pokemon and fast forwarding all the dumb commercials. I even bought a ticket to see the movie.
I heard they got rid of Team Rocket and I never bothered to tune in again. Then they started introducing new crops of Pokemon and that dumb card game. Even if I wanted to play, I couldn't. No way I was going to be the grown-ass man playing a bunch of 11 year olds.
I like that you chose the screenshot with the LGBT symbol in it. :soviet-heart:
