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.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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.

      • FuckYourselfEndless [ze/hir]
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        2 years ago

        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.

      • ivygroup [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        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).