Tonight a one hour Pokémon anime special airs in Japan and along with it some big news (their words, not ours). This could be related to the anime season covering Sun & Moon and may even reveal insight into the Alola region, but could also relate to the new Generations mini-sodes.
And the reveal is… SUN & MOON ANIME TRAILER!
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I just hope not every episode is confined in a classroom
And that Ash and co eventually start traveling
it wont. im guessing the classroom will be the first 3 episodes and then boom something happen.
So I was watching the trailer again I noticed that the island they show at the very beginning doesn’t really look like any of the regular Alolan islands. I would have imagined it’d be MeleMele, but it looks too long for it. Plus I can’t make out any landmarks from the Alola map. Interesting…..lol
Also Remember the anime regions share differences from the actual regions in-game
True, but you’d think the over all look would be at least similar to what we know of. The island they showed is unrecognizable. At least at this point. lol
Honestly ik everyone is allowed to have a opinion but like going off a 32 second trailer to identify a series as the new Best Wishes and saying its garbage is bit a too far as we barely even know anything about the anime ik X/Y was amazing but like lets just wait and give this one a try i bet it will be just as good lol
im talking about everybody not just a select few
We can’t know anything about the story or acting yet, but based on the trailer the animation over all looks pretty decent. With the exception of that one frame whee both Ash and Kukui look derpy, but those kinds of frames happened even in the XY series so it’s expected lol
yea overtime x/y animation improved greatly, I remember people complained about the way ash looked in Kalos lol
I personally liked the crisp coloring and hard lines they used for XY. I think what’s gotten people all in a tizzy is the extreme difference between the two art styles. Up until now the animation in a very general sense has been similar. there were little details that changed and of course the animators went from hand drawings to the digital drawings, but they’ve always had a very same kind of feel to them. Now everything looks different and I think it’s scaring people lol
this style reminds of the anime movie Ponyo. it reminds of how anime used to look similar to the start of one peice and all
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pzG96HRN3_E/maxresdefault.jpg
Yeah that’s what me and Shady were saying down below. It looks like a Studio Ghibli film. And that’s a pretty good thing if you ask me. At least if they keep the quality up. lol
yep yep. im excited actually as im a fan more of anime that has that type of style, not every anime needs to have crisp lines and amazing HD quality animation to be good
Well I’d prefer if the animation had HD quality, but I get what you’re saying. Should be interesting to see the characters drawn in a different way for once lol
HD quality meaning like top of the line. Dragon ball Kai intro type XD
Well, good thing I never really cared for the pokemon anime. Cause compared to previous seasons this looks like a step back.
It’s just a different art style. Art style has nothing to do with the quality of the product. Plus if the acting and story are on point then it will be an interesting change.
Like I said, never really cared for the pokemon anime, so mehh.
Fair enough hahaha
Wow did everyone see today’s episodes of XY and Z? Like, how to the creators go from that to this! It doesn’t make sense… I really hope it’s a lot better than it seems to be shaping out to be.
the xyz animators arent working on this series, they are working on another project they could return, but also this is actually a cool art style for pokemon, it reminds me of old time anime feel
I’m not mad about the art style… Ash looks strange but I love the bright colors. It’s just the plot of going to school and the whole vibe of it that seems way different from the anime we are used to.
Like many have said it’s unlikely that they’ll stay in the school. the show is about Ash traveling so it’d be weird for him to all of a sudden jump into a slice of life anime that just happens to be in the Pokemon worlds. He’ll likely start his typical traveling not long into the series.
hm, well every other pokemon anime starts off with ash like “GOTTA GO TO A NEW REGION GET ALL BADGES AND BECOME MASTER” but the story always changes this will be no different
My thoughts exactly on style I enjoy it
*Ash returns to Pallet town and meets Professor Oak, who for some reason is in Ash’s House*
Oak : Ash, good, you’re home, me and your mother have something to tell you, we have decided that we are disappointed in you losing once again, and despite your recent defeat of Team Flare, we have decided to send you back to school. So first thing tomorrow you’re getting on a plane and going to live with my Cousin in the Alola region, where you will go to school, and hopefully you won’t be back for a while.
Oak telling it like it is
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its not just the fact that this style looks very cheap compared to XY, its the fact that its too early for such a change, we dont have to have a new style for each season thats insane, no one does such thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGWNBwjUqw8 This is amazing
So I just had a thought. It’s clear that Ash will meet the four captains that we know of pretty early on if not immediatly after getting to Alola. I find it hard to believe they would introduce half, if not most, of the captains to Ash within the first few episodes. So that could mean that Sun and Moon could potentially have a butt load of captains and trials by extension like many people have theorized. It doesn’t make sense to show off four captains if there are only around 8 or so of them, but if there’s…let’s say 14 captains then 4 isn’t showing very many of them off at all. I say 14 as I could see there being 14 captains that give out 14 of the Z stones to correspond to their type specialty and then the remaining 4 could be given out by the Kahunas or important characters. Either way I could see this being a thing lol
we theorizing 16 because Guzma and Plumeria failed the test to become captains and they seem specialize with poison and dark
That could also be a thing lol
Wow. When you thought the anime (or Ash, more specifically) couldn’t get any worse, they come up with this. Absolute trash. R.I.P. anime. XY&Z was awesome, so I guess it’s a good point to stop and just stick to the games.
Then we are complete opposites on this topic I am watching this show, playing the games, and playing the cards for my love of this game Pokemon
I just watched part one of the finale
And I gotta say….full mast
I think the four trial captains might be all we’re getting. They cover the basic elements and their also shown in school (much like I thought- they’all be learning how to be captains). They haven’t shown any more in the trailer, and unless the other unannounced captains are older, it makes no sense for them not to be in school too.
I can’t believe that. Three of the four trial captains are on Akala island, and the fourth one might be. There wouldn’t be 3 on one island an then 1 for the other three.
And we know of totem Gumshoos/Raticate, Wishiwashi, Lurantis so there has to be a normal type trial captain unless(and I hope this is the case) we get to battle the trial captains.What else would the type specialties be for then?
That xyz special though!! So alola officially confirms that amourshipping didn’t happen… this new style is different than xyz and it reminded me some how of one piece animation. I’ll give it a try. Hopefully alola form ash doesn’t get his pikacbu defeated by a lv.5 litten
actually I feel Litten will react like that when first time I saw him. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1473951235853.png
Where did you get that?
Never mind
Just watched trailer that was awesome!!! And side note Team rocket has a Mimikyu on poster and trailer shows Kiawe with a Turtornator
Totally as anticipated.
So I wonder if the XY and Z animators or writers went to Pokemon Generations. Cuz that looks waaaay better
https://youtu.be/XxHqWGYzNwU
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/def35de1f5afa6bfed167d353737cdf4ab478acd7f39fbf6c5da42bda0667dfd.jpg
Why didn’t someone take my eyes out with a knife before I saw this.
And honestly I don’t get how people can defend this.
Not only is the whole animation and artstyle a huge downgrade,but in the preview we can clearly see that ash is in a classroom, and that the travelling/battling aspect of Pokemon is completely gone.
We knew he was going to school the second we saw it what did you expect?
Despite the Pokemon designs, I am definately not watching this even if it comes to the US…
Oh man, just seeing the comparison physically hurts. ):
I know, pal. It has been burned into my mind, and not in a good way…
Yeah, they’re really targetting the children this time around.
I’ve got a feeling they’re try to do the same with the game because they’ve been losing ground to Yokai watch for quite some time now.
The Pokémon anime has always targeted children. That never stopped XY and DP from Being very good.
But I mean reaaaallly targetting them.
To the extend they forgoe older fans in favour of younger fans.
Like they do with Pokenchi.
Oh my god! Gen IV! The “golden years” of my life as a Pokemon fan! My favorite!!!
I can’t be around 24/7 to knife people’s eyes out
This is why everyone should carry a shiv on their person at all times
Yeah, what is going on there?!
KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
I hope people know that the animation is designed to look normal and bouncy in motion as opposed to still frames. If done right, it should be very reminiscent of how some companies have been animating in the past 5 or so years (especially Studio Trigger); however, people are still heavily divided on these changes too, so it makes sense that there is a divide. I’ll wait for a few episodes to see how the premise will turn out though…
Do people really believe the entire generation VII anime will be set in a school? Of course I don’t have many arguments right now, but the starter leaks showed Litten3 cooking something for Ash and Mallow; I don’t think they would need to cook for themselves like that if they were in anywhere but a forest. There’s more than meets the eye, and I’ve been waiting so long for a series/anime to return to the classic “goofy characters” style from the early 2000’s so… #Excited 😀
It could always end up like that summer camp arc from the Hoenn series of the anime. They went to a sort of summer camp thing where they competed in small tasks everyday like what might be expected from cub scouts. Stuff like fishing, scavanger hunts and stuff. Surviving in the forest could be one of the tasks. Either that or they just go camping in one episode.
You’re right, that is a possibility. I just thought that by being in the artwork, that would be a constant feature 😀
Maybe Ash camps out at the back of his house every night?
If you’ve got the weather there’s no reason not to.
It does show ash in a forest, a beach and swimming w/ sharpedo in the trailer, so I guess we’ll have to wait and see! The only thing I wish was that this were actually a “flashback”, like this series has happened before Kalos; I’ve always wanted “goofy ash” to return, but it doesn’t feel right after watching the awesomeness that was the Team Flare Arc Finale.
Yeah, feels like a rough stone to the face…
Is Ash getting Litten?
Most likely that Rowlet or both.
Rowlet didn’t even appear in the trailer.
I didn’t notice this before Mimikyu with team rocket !! that make sense. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1473954899420.png
Mimikyu with James and Bewear with Jessie
So if they can’t catch Pikachu just get fake one.
I’m scared.
???
I like everything but the Ash design change. He actually feels a bit out of place to everyone else.
ash’s face looks derpy as hell and the animation overall feels really cheap, they obviously got a low budge animation studio for this region series ugh