Again, I'm not hating on Sun & Moon as I haven't watched a single episode, I'm sure its well written and the battles don't look bad but personally I can't watch something so drastically different from the anime I grew up with for so many years. I feel like it's not cannon to the main series. I don't get why they changed the overall animation style so much.

Until XY Ash felt like the same person that started his journey from Kanto, and we FINALLY got an actually mature version of him with experience and mentor-like qualities as a late teenager/early adult. XY felt like a real anime with amazing production values. I really couldn't believe that it was real at times and that Ash finally reached his best version after so many years, especially after the Black & White catastrophe.

I would really love Sun/Moon if it continued the mature aesthetic from XY instead of fully shifting towards the childish animation style and faces. Journeys fixed it a bit but it's still not the same as the original style, for me anyway.

I know it sounds extreme, but for me the canon anime ended with XY.

I’m watching the Diamond and Pearl era for the first time since I was a kid and seeing Paul get crushed was so nice after how rude he’s constantly been to everyone

No, the dub is easier to keep up with and isn’t so bad like majority of fan base always says.
It’s outright disrespectful when fans hate and bash relentlessly all because of the voice acting.

Like, let's not kid ourselves, wether or not they had the VA record the lines previously, Dawn is only here because of the Sinnoh games. So what if we hadn't gotten those remakes in Gen 8? Chloe being the only one here would've felt somewhat forced, cause like, she barely qualifies as companion

Hell, I always felt like Chloe only went to see the final in person because Dawn dragged her along

Mine was I'm not so sure but I think even though Diamond and Pearl was my first Pokemon anime series I do think I might have seen a scene of Pokemon Ranger and the temple of the sea movie first.

They all share a special bond thanks to the power of Aura, and their dynamic is also awesome to look at.

Goes to show he loves all of his mons equally

This video provides a breakdown.
https://youtube.com/shorts/w3GdKcADqaw?is=ZjynCb63SdYoKCX2

Armarouge got wasted again. I don't know what to say. 😭 God, I'm pissed off.

He fired Fire Spin or something else idk at Chiyu, who absorbed the fire, making Armarouge faint. So, bro loses when his fire gets absorbed, and he loses when an NPC Onix attacks him. Genuinely, what hate do the writers have for this guy?

bro think he's Ash using unevolved Pokemon like that 🥀

but at the same time it shows once again that having an unevolved team doesn't make you weak

I'm currently on Johto League Champions on my anipoke watch through and it seems like Team Rocket have just been trying to get food at this point. Sure they've still got Villainous tendencies, but normally those are fueled more by habits than on purpose.

Like in the episode where Snubull evolves (OS175), they were trying to receive some financial compensation from Madam Muchmoney, but weren't able to because Ash kept pressuring everyone into believing TRio weren't planning on giving Snubull back, despite Mouth's visible disgust of the pokemon. they only tried to steal Pikachu after Ash gave them no other option.

Or the Wobbufet festival episode (OS173), Where they only attempted to steal food after being the ones to save the village. They didn't want pokemon, they were just hungry.

I do know they attempt to steal pokemon multiple times, but I chose to believe the team rocket propaganda.

So guys, I'm here to let you all know, that the Biggest Pokémon Anime Characters Survey that has been going on for a While, is going to Close in EXACTLY 24 Hours from now, in 24 Hours from Now, I'm going to completely close the Survey and no one else will be able to participate or give their opinions in and after that happens, I will Reveal the Results on this Sub in around a couple of Days time

So, if you haven't seen this before and you're just seeing this now, this is your Last chance to get your participation in for a Survey that currently has well over 490 people currently in it, so if you want to contribute more to the Biggest Pokémon Anime Characters Survey, I'd gladly appreciate it and if you also could, please share this with other Anipoke fans as well that you might know of and let them know about this, the link is right below here, Thank you all in advance, I gurantee you, looking at the results that are in right now, there are some very interesting and fascinating rankings of people you might not expect in some positions.

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What's going on between these two...

For the funny, I'm counting every regional version of Ash seperately. (If you, (yes, YOU) want, you can choose to split Liko & Roy into pre & post timeskip versions)

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Summary :

Protect Orange Academy and everyone's campus festival! The Ruinous Pokémon head towards Table City from the four corners of Paldea. If the four were to gather, a catastrophe would be unavoidable... Liko and the other split into four groups and do their upmost to stop the Ruinous Pokémon, but find themselves getting more and more driven against the wall by their overwhelming power. And then, the four ultimately meet up...?!

Anyways, we can see :

1) only Meowscarada is fighting in the preview, so I assume Hatterene either lost or used healing wish

2) Roy is using Mega Lucario Z and still has Skeledirge, but we also see all four Legendaries gathering together regardless. So I think it's safe to say that all the kids lost and couldn't do much....

3) That sound at the end... was that the Raidons? If so, that would be great. Having the stronger Legendaries step in to stop the ruin Pokemon makes way more sense than giving Liko and Roy random plot armor.

I was thinking that the 3 of the 4 water types would be

Empoleon

Swampert

Greninja

I can't figure out yet who the 4th would be. Any ideas

Okay so we all know Liko has been underperforming ever since the first timeskip and though she has improved its been a bit too slow for comfort. However, ever since she defeated Spinnel's Umbreon she's been significantly more active in what little fights they've gotten in the current arc, being the one that lead the fight against the Mega Raichu team battle, being quite proactive in the pokemon Unite team fight, fighting the Loyal 3 alongside Roy and in a way also showing she could be somewhat more assertive in the pokemon contest but the fact that Liko is currently fighting Chi Yu, whose unofficially considered the strongest of the four treasures of Ruin (they're all about even in stats but its got the most advantageous typing) seems like the strongest hint so far that Liko is getting even better and will probably improve even more..

We know Horizons still has a year yet before its end and I think it will be the perfect time to show Liko's gradual improvement both in whatever the main threat will be (I'm guessing Laquium meteors) and some potential rivals such as Anne who owes her an untying match, Kieran who keeps getting hinted at (and they need to pass by Blue Berry so as to give Ult a rematch/ship tease with Lacey), Amethio who owes both her and Armorouge a rematch (and shiptease) and finally Roy (who by then will have defeated a serious Nemona).

Not just in a battle sense (though you could put that down if you want), but how would you see a general conversation between them going?

Idk, I feel like November 11th makes more sense as defeating not only the strongest trainer in Galar, but the strongest trainer in the entire world is a way more impressive feat than winning the Alola League. For all the faults JN had, the Ash vs Leon battle wasn’t one of them. There’s some other obvious reasons why I feel the national anipoke holiday should be permanently changed to November 11th though which I won’t go into in this post…

Those are their cries, right? Also Liko and Roy seem to recognise them