Has anyone kept up with watching the Pokemon Pocket Monsters television TV show?
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Onion_Relish
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Your math is a laugh considering how many lame duck episodes of Pokemon there are. I saw it not too long ago and they were doing some sort of costume battles. And the Pokemon created intricate designs with their attacks.
Remember when it used to be about becoming a Pokemon master?
Remember when it used to be about becoming a Pokemon master?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Heh.
If he's still not a master 750 eps in, he should probably retire that dream.
I watched up to the point Ash lost in his first tournament. Charizard got bored or something and lost the battle for him. The show ended for me just like Ash's dreams of winning.
perfectchaos007
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I think I stopped watching after Johto. A few years later they dropped all of the original voice actors in the US which sealed the shows demise.
Season 1 was good, I managed to sit through that awful Orange Islands season, and that was it.
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Apparently if you use an extremely powerful electric attack on a flying type while you are riding it it somehow makes you invincible and able to do massive damage to psychic/rock types
http://unpokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Thunder_Armor
Apparently if you use an extremely powerful electric attack on a flying type while you are riding it it somehow makes you invincible and able to do massive damage to psychic/rock types
DarkLegion
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That one sad Pikachu episode in the first season is an episode I'll always think about whenever the anime gets brought up. Other than that, the show just follows a simple, boring formula; filler, filler, gym battle, filler, filler, filler, gym battle.
We talk about the Pokemon anime in the community thread on a fairly regular basis
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=490974
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=490974
Dark Ninja
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I stopped watching when they changed the voice actors it was just wierd after that.
The series was over for me when Ash, Brock and Misty went their separate ways in EP 273, after finishing the Johto stuff.
Episode was full of flashbacks with sad music playing on top.
As a farewell present Misty gave Ash a handkerchief and Brock gave Ash a lunch pack with cutlery, which caused Ash to cry.
Ash then got trapped in Team Rocket pitfall trap by himself, which was full of smoke. Ash used the handkerchief to cover his mouth and the cutlery to climb out of the hole.
A great ep.
Episode was full of flashbacks with sad music playing on top.
As a farewell present Misty gave Ash a handkerchief and Brock gave Ash a lunch pack with cutlery, which caused Ash to cry.
Ash then got trapped in Team Rocket pitfall trap by himself, which was full of smoke. Ash used the handkerchief to cover his mouth and the cutlery to climb out of the hole.
A great ep.
Having competent Pokemon is overrated.
haha
Stopped watching after Orange Islands. Should have ended it there, tbh.
Ash is just gonna get all the badges from a region, and lose to the Elite 4. Rinse and repeat forever.
tiggerkiddo
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Common sense doesn't work in this universe.
DonMigs85
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Technically he's in training, he can be called forth at anytime.
Butterfree and Pidgeot are gone for good though. Not sure about Primeape being totally let go.
Little Old Man
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Came across all of the original series, Orange Islands, and the first two sub series of Johto a while back. Watching the Kanto and OI stuff was amazing, since that was what I watched as a kid, and talking about in school every week. Nostalgia overload. Still love the slightly adult humour in some of the episodes, which went right over my head as a child.
I saw a little of Johto too when it was aired, but by that point I didn't have Sky so couldn't keep up with it well. The amount of filler episodes is insane- nearly half are just the group sitting around a lake having lunch when something minor happens. Was this to give them time to create Gen 3?
Also, love how he never went back for Primate, Pidgeotto, dumps Charizard after spending ages getting him to take orders, etc. Though it sounds like he still uses the later, so that's something. Dumping all his previous gen Pokemon at the start of each new series always annoyed me too! Gotta sell those games though somehow I suppose.
Don't think I could watch anything more recent without a nostalgia attachment to them and the new voice actors, which was confirmed when B&W happened to be on the Disney channel at a hotel I was staying in.
Finally....
I saw a little of Johto too when it was aired, but by that point I didn't have Sky so couldn't keep up with it well. The amount of filler episodes is insane- nearly half are just the group sitting around a lake having lunch when something minor happens. Was this to give them time to create Gen 3?
Also, love how he never went back for Primate, Pidgeotto, dumps Charizard after spending ages getting him to take orders, etc. Though it sounds like he still uses the later, so that's something. Dumping all his previous gen Pokemon at the start of each new series always annoyed me too! Gotta sell those games though somehow I suppose.
Don't think I could watch anything more recent without a nostalgia attachment to them and the new voice actors, which was confirmed when B&W happened to be on the Disney channel at a hotel I was staying in.
Finally....
It's been running for 15 years. One movie per year isn't all that much.
Right up there with Pikachu aiming for the horn.
UltimateIke
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I watched the anime until the end of the Johto arc, and I recently started watching the Unova stuff. So I missed all of Hoenn and Sinnoh.
The new stuff is not as good as I remember the old episodes being.
Arcanine doesn't follow your "rules," dude. He's not going let "THE MAN" tell him what he can and can't do. It's a free country.
The new stuff is not as good as I remember the old episodes being.
Arcanine doesn't follow your "rules," dude. He's not going let "THE MAN" tell him what he can and can't do. It's a free country.
Bjoern the Smexy
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Spieler Eins
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750 episodes and I bet each one of them still follows the same formula.
You make one a year, and they sort of add up after 15 years. Every year in July, they release a new one in Japan.
You mean October 12, 1998, a month after the series started to air in the US? And less then two weeks after the games came out in the US? Well you were over that fad quickly.
And yes, the series started to air in the US a few weeks before the games released.
Yes. Yes she did
Huh, no.
I saw the second one in a cinema. That was when I realised I was way too old to watch Pokemon. The games are a different story but the anime has passed me by.
Canis lupus
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Stopped at the 3rd generation.
Pokemon 1&2 forever.
Pokemon 1&2 forever.
Exterminieren
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I am one of those, yeah.
The Diamond and Pearl saga is empirically the best that the anime has ever been, followed by Black and White.
The Diamond and Pearl saga is empirically the best that the anime has ever been, followed by Black and White.
Dion Blaster
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Articuno Jynx, Nidorina Beedrill, Haunter, Squirtle, Chansey, POKEMON.
Tiu Neo
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I just realize that for some of you, this is you Duck Tales, your Chip N Dale, your Turtles.
Well, I had both. Loved all of the them when I was 6-7, and loved Pokémon when I was a bit older.
Yeah, me too.
ScreenSplitter
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Ash is a terrible, terrible role model for being a Pokemon trainer, and just a human being in general.
Ash repeatedly stops evolution. Ash is a theist.
Ash repeatedly stops evolution. Ash is a theist.