A new trailer for the upcoming Pokémon XY anime season has been uploaded by the TV Tokyo YouTube channel. While it doesn’t contain a huge amount of information there are a few details that fans of the anime will be pleased to hear about, including a previously unknown relationship between Ash and a new character, and a redesign of a fan favourite character.
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Check out the trailer above! Who’s planning to start watching the XY anime once it starts airing? I think I am!
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If you look at the poster, you can see just how massive Lumiose City is.
It’s like 5X the size of Castelia City.
We got a full view of Chespin’s weird brown spot!
http://i44.tinypic.com/2vlwrnq.jpg
If you watch the trailer again, you’ll notice that the helicopters are actually chasing the Garchomp.
Yay!!! Ash is looking really cool this season!!! I’m glad to see that the real Ash escaped from his kidnappers and got rid of that fake one that was acting like an idiot in BW. I’m definitely looking forward to watching this even more now!! lol
i know i wonder if he was well taken care of when he was a hostage
I bet he had to battle that BW impostor. “I had a good reputation till you ruined it in BW!’ – Real Ash “Now pay! Pikachu Thunderbolt!”
or maybe it was a self kidnapping so he could go on vacation
So let me get this straight… Ash falls from a building 2 Times…. ( -_-)..
….
XD
What can I say? He must be a risk taker. Either that or he has a death wish……….hahaha
I was going with Death Wish.. but I didn’t want to be the one to say it First XD
Do you guys think Ash will evolve Froakie? He could be so strong he doesn’t need too or be his first cause he seems so strong… Hmm
Frogadier is better than Froakie in my opinion so I hope so. Just look at that boss.
Squirtle, Totodile, Oshawott, Dawn’s Piplup. Water Starters, or Pokemon in general, tend not to fare well in the anime. Even Ash’s Corphish and Buizel didn’t evolve.
I’d prefer for Froakie to stay as a Froakie and then have Ash get Chespin and have it evolve all the way.
So excited for this season, I wonder what Serena’s past connection is with Ash. Also I believe Serebii might have confirmed Clemont as the Lumiose City gym leader in his report of the trailer saying that Clemont would not battle Ash at the Lumiose gym because he has no badges.
Yeah. So we can speculate he’s either the eighth or fourth or maybe any other number. lol XD
I have a theory !
Serebii’s description on serina says “Serena is a Pokémon Trainer who is just starting her journey. However, she has a history with Ash, having been childhood friends in years gone by.” Could she possibly be Blue? The girl from Gen 1? they both have the same physicall attributes and have a similar hat and even same anime pose!!!!
Girl named Blue? Picture?
She’s from the Pokemon Adventures manga. Gen 1 had 4 main characters: Red – who Ash was supposed to represent, Green – who Gary represents, there was Blue – who was the female main character and Yellow another female main character.
Personally, Serena looks closer to Yellow from the manga especially since Red saved Yellow from a Dratini in the manga when they first meet.
She doesn’t look anything like Yellow.
I’m making the silly assumption that Ash has actually aged a bit since then and that would mean that Yellow would be older as an older Yellow would look similar to Serena.
on bulbapedia, it saids blue is who gary is based on and green is who the gen 1. female character is based off of
‘Blue’ is the equivalent of ‘Green’ to international people. Think of the female player from FireRed LeafGreen.
I had the same thought. Similar hats, similar clothing styles (base outfit), and similar hair (just a different color). I knew Serena reminded me of someone. Leaf/Green/Blue is my favorite Female MC and now that I’m looking at Serena in that light, she’s advancing towards the top too.
i can see serena getting fenekin, since she was shown with it, and ash already has froakie and basically has chespin since their personalities are so similar
Ash looks more like a teenager now.
it’s the cloths
the hair as well. More grown out.
He has teeth.
Possibly if this is where Serena is supposed to start her journey then maybe she was 9 and Ash was 10 meaning now Ash is 11 and she is 10… Possibly
I wonder how Ash knew Serena as a kid.
Probably she was the girl from the first intro of the pokemon series, “were pikachu goes under a girl’s skirt”, she probably dyed her hair blonde?!?!
Link?
Go to YouTube and watch season 1 opening intro and you will see a girl with a green skirt, and that girl was never mention in the anime or games
Interesting analogy. Dont know how you remembered that one. Good job though.
Thanks, lol! guess I have good memory!!!
Yeah but I’m not sure if they would make her diy her hair so young.. THOUGH diying your hair Is an option in game
They are giving Ash a legit love interest.
xDDDDD
What’s with Ash and Kanto girls? Misty and him had some very close moments (both canon and not [like the Christmas CD]). He never really got so close to May and Iris, and while he did bond with Dawn a lot, they were more like best friends than a couple.
I think the collars come from Team Flare trying to either control the Pokémon or force them to Mega Evolve
They are actually going to do some character development? I really like Serena too, so maybe she’ll help me like Ash more…truthfully I kind of like the characters. I might start the Kalos region watching it in Japanese subbed if I can find it.
Seems Ash chooses Froakie but chances are he gets all of the starters one way or another. Or Serena picks one…hopefully Fennekin.
Ash falls a lot.
i agree, ash will probs get froakie and chespin. while serena picks fennekin. kinda like D/P where he had 2 starters
Things I’ve taken away from this:
Serena and Clemont both look much better in the trailer than the official artwork.
Ash’ll probably get Froakie, but it wasn’t injured in the battle with Garchomp (which takes place at night) because Ash was running during the day with him.
Serena is probably just starting her journey, but I have no idea why Ash and Clemont would go to Sycamore’s lab unless Ash was asked by Oak to visit and Clemont just tagged along.
Serena looks like she’ll get Fennekin, but Chespin is always a possibility.
New Officer Jenny looks more like the old ones, good.
And that sunset lighting turning into night was just beautiful. I hope the anime keeps it up with the nice designs.
So Ash knew Serena during his childhood. Could she be one of the two mysterious trainers who picked one of the three Kanto starters before Ash got to in the Original Series (the other being Leaf)?
I read on serebii I believe that she is just starting now
I have high expectations for this new series and hope that Ash will act like he has had experience on his journeys and give her some pointers.
Apparently the player character moves to Vaniville Town in the games so it is possible that Serena used to live in Kanto when her and Ash were children, they became friends, and then she moved away to Kalos to which they lost touch with each other. It makes me wonder though if Ash will remember her or not.
lol Clemont sister has a big head
Yeah, but Im glad her skirt doesn’t look like a diaper like I thought it would
It wouldn’t make sense if Ash knew Serena before and she is starting just now without either he or she being at least 11… it is not like they can pretend all of Ash’s journeys have happened in less than the month they give out Pokémon starters cause they only do it once a year
I think you might be missreading it, she knew Ash when they were really little so about when they were 5. She probably moved to Kalos from Kanto and is just now starting her adventure around the region.
Well Im saying if she is just turning 10 which is a possibility..
Just because shes just starting out doesn’t necessarily mean shes just turning 10 now. At 10 years old a kid is able to start out their journey, that doesn’t mean every kid has to immediately start their journey at that age.
…………. Im saying IF she is just turning 10.. I said this in my original post that He Or She should be at least 11.. seeing as starters are only given out around 1 time per year and it appears to be hand out time……… Though it is a different time each region it seems, seeing as Ash is still 10 but Unova had given out its Starters when he visited
Oh sorry, after reading it again I began to get what you meant ^^; it would make sense if she became 11 or whatever because there is a rumor that the anime writers made ash a bit older.
That’s ok.. a few things in the anime simply Don’t line up properly and Time definitely being one of them.. so what I am saying could be Completely wrong haha
When in doubt in the anime time line just blame Dialga!
makes you wonder whats worse game logic or anime logic
Not only that but it is also possible that she is a little younger than Ash, only just now turning 10.
Serena had a connection with Ash before the new anime even began, thus revealing more information on Ash’s past? TV Tokyo…you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.
Giovanni is going to be in the anime? YEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
AHHHHHHHH YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Ash looks. . . AMAZING! The animation is exhilarating and I hope to watch the anime when it airs.
ASH WILL FINALLY HAVE AN EVOLVED WATER STARTER POKEMON OR ANY WATER TYPE POKEMON BESIDES KARBBY! I CAN FEEL IT, FROAKIE EVOLVES.
he better. Frogadier is bad ass
Palpitoad
LOL. He never evolved it, he caught it as a Palpitoad.
You didn’t say he evolve it himself you said “HAVE”
Must’ve been a typo. ;D
I think we need another blond character to join ash’s traveling party.
Are you being sarcastic…………? ( -_-)
Is it just me, or does like every comment here have a downvote?
The mystery downvoter must have returned.
The mysterious downvoter is IAMTHELEAKER.
Maybe, because Giovanni is gonna appear, we’ll finally get our badass battle between teams in the Anime like we were gonna get with Plasma ?
If so I can’t wait to see the Flare Scientists fight because they’re so fabulous! And I’d love it if they have their own intro like the Rocket Trio XD
I bet it’s going to be like Naruto with that 2 year time-skip and Sakura thinking how much Naruto has grown in just two years and then -facepalm_ the only that changed was his height and age until the Kakashi battle. I bet it’s like upon discovering that Ash is in Kalos she goes on to find him. That sounds so cute. Childhood friendship. Awww