Pokémon Generations Episode 1 & 2 Premiere!

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As announced on Tuesday, the first and second episode of Pokémon Generations premiere today and you can watch them right here!

For those that aren’t caught up yet Pokémon Generations is a series of animated shorts that revisits each generation of the Pokémon games to shed new light on some timeless moments. Each episode will be 3-5 minutes long and will release weekly starting today with Episode 1: The Adventure and Episode 2: The Chase, right up until December 23rd.

Episode One: The Adventure sees a Trainer and his Pikachu journey across Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh Unova and Kalos facing-off against Pokémon and uncovering the secrets each region hides.

Episode Two: The Chase follows Detective Looker on the trail of Team Rocket boss Giovanni. When critical information is uncovered regarding his location they rush to the scene and discover something truly unexpected..

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766 thoughts on “Pokémon Generations Episode 1 & 2 Premiere!”

  2. I miss the days when Jessie and James were serious villains.
    (TL: their first appearance and then never again.)

    Also am I the only one who thinks the level of technology featured in pokemon is seriously inconsistent? They can teleport pokeballs, but it’s still rare to own a car.

    Also Misty: “Everyone knows water pokemon can’t battle on land”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6S1_s_C65k

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    • They were actually serious again in (I think) best wishes. They even changed their outfits to black but then they eventually went back to being silly

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      • They always go back to being silly.

        Don’t get me wrong, I like things like James’ bottlecap collection and his Mime Jr, and their backstories, but it gets to a point where they might as well stop being villains and just join Ash’s travels, they’ve been there following him longer than any of his other friends and it’s made clear they don’t really hate him.

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  4. Onion (Fans): *puts face in hands*
    Steven: Fans were sad that the fall hiatus was starting.
    Onion: *Starts crying*
    Steven: But then they cheered up a little because they can still watch other shows during the hiatus.
    Onion: *SmilesButOnThe InsideWantsToDie*
    Steven: If you want to….

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        • I didn’t know about the fall hiatus thing they did, since I am new, but I somehow knew it was a message of sorts to them.
          Plus, I was also touched cause I relate to Onion in a way. I’ve had friends like his that went away (but I never saw them again after they did) and I would have loved a message like this. That friends will come back or you will never be alone.

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          • Except they don’t always come back.
            When I think of the hundreds of people I’ve known that I’ll probably never see again, and the handful who I considered friends that I’ll probably never see again, it just goes to show how big the world truly is.

  6. Ok gotta admit the second one was really interesting. Animation is cool, story was interesting for a 4 min short. Also explains what happens to Giovanni following the events of the first game. I approve.

    Don’t really see the point of the first one though, other than it being an introduction of sorts.

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    • The first one was exactly that, an introduction. 🙂

      I read earlier that this is apparently 5 episodes split up into smaller shorts. Not sure this is actually confirmed or true, but I guess we’ll find out!

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  7. I’m still pissed of that Red seems to be the only protag. I will also.consider this entire thing a waste if we don’t get Red Vs Gold.

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  10. I liked the first one, but I don’t know why they decided to draw Pikachu in such a weird way.

    Episode 2 was really good, pokemon makes an excellent cop drama.
    Also the notion that Team Rocket might have never disbanded is a neat idea.
    Maybe one day they’ll come back to a game as a major protagonist, stronger than ever.

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    • Imagine a portion of the game where they’ve kidnapped Red (as payback) and are holding him hostage, so the player character has to conduct a prison break.

      I loved the fact that Giovanni remains evil in this version, I despise the cliche villain sees he was wrong and becomes good. I also liked how he was supposed to be on the run when the player character and blue challenge his gym. Team Rocket disbanding could be a ploy to get the cops of their backs. Giovanni probably goes underground to plot his revenge.

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          • Yeah, but that could have been achieved without time travel.
            They could have just shown the player visions of the past and not allowed them to interact or they could have made it a dream instead.

            Personally the way I would have done it:
            I would have had Celebi show the player a vision of the past but not let them battle him, then give the player a hint to Giovanni’s location, then had the player go to Giovanni’s hideout using a password/code they acquired from the vision to get past the code-locked door. Once inside they’d be able to look around his stuff and discover a picture of Giovanni’s son proving that he does still care, at which point Giovanni would return and battle the player. After losing he’d begrudingly congratulate the player, say the player reminds him of his son, and then lament how he used to be a powerful gym leader but has fallen on hard times. Then he’d knock the player out. When the player wakes up, the place would be ransacked and Giovanni would have clearly left in a hurry. Where the picture once was would be a letter from Giovanni addressed to his son, which the player could then hand to his son for another talk scene in which the son becomes determined to get stronger and one day find his father in order to determine who is stronger.

            Or something like that.

      • Reminds me of Sonic Adventure 2 for some reason.

        Yeah, it’s good to have villains that don’t reform.
        Even if they did disband, Team Rocket disbanding in Kanto doesn’t mean there aren’t branches in other regions, and they can always recruit more members.
        Realising he’s lost and taking time out to carefully plot a return is a clever thing for Giovanni to do.

        Plus it always bothers me when the teams just vanish into thin air.
        I think they should one day have a jail in the games where some of the team members get put after being captured, so you can visit them and see they’ve actually been put into custody. It would also make it possible for them to organise a jail break for a brief return before they go back and security is increased.

        Another nice thing would be to overhear some former team members that escaped capture lamenting how they’re either back to petty thievery or are struggling to find a job and keep their head down so they don’t get picked up by the authorities. The closest they’ve come to that (to my memory) was in ORAS where the two team members give you their Camerupt and Sharpedo.

        Also am I the only one who finds it concerning that we haven’t seen a police officer since Kanto?

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        • I was just thinking about this yesterday! Where the hell are all of the authority figure in these regions?? I can’t remember the last time I saw officer Jenny in-game. And of course I remember “looker.” But is there anyone like trying to control crime in the poke world?

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          • No police, no government, the closest thing to authority figures are the gym leaders, the E4, the champion and the pokemon centres.

            Looker doesn’t really count since he’s more of a P.I.

            It seems like all the regions other than Kanto have no form of policing whatsoever.

    • You’re allowed to be impartial.

      Honestly I don’t like the first episode, but I found the second one interesting cos it was something different, something we haven’t seen before, and not just a rehash of the normal anime.

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      • True the second one was something that we haven’t seen before. Honestly if the rest continue to be like it I might start liking it, but I haven’t liked the the anime for years so that’s a heavy “might” :/

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        • To be honest I’m more inclined to watch these because at 3-5 minutes each, it’s hardly a massive chunk out of one’s day like the anime would be.

          I’ve spent longer writing comments here than it took to watch the videos 😛

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  13. Okay so now that I watched them again.
    They are average. The first one is nothing but a montage of all the regions, the second one had an interesting premise, with looker hunting giovanni, but that’s it. They went into the gym….and nothing happened. The animation wasn’t that good compared to origins ether, overall

    Origins and The XY(Z) anime were much much much better than this,although these are only 3 minutes long

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    • Well, they couldn’t really have done much else considering it was only 4 mins, plus it answers the question that’s been on everyone’s mind, why was Giovanni still allowed to hold Gym battles if he was outed as the leader of an evil team. I think it did its job, but to each their own…

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  15. I thought Pokemon Go was normal then I saw this (Rf) I also caught my highest CP Pokemon today at school try to guess what it is?

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  16. I want this series to end in Alola showing off a few new pokemon and parts of Alola. I mean they already showed Zygarde… At the vey begining.

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      • This is what I’d like. Maybe a companion series to the usual one with Ash, kind of like the Mega Evolution acts, rather than a replacement.

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        • I’d probably be more inclined to watch it than I would the main anime. The anime has too much filler for my liking.
          Plus the SM version doesn’t look like it’s going to be much good at the moment.

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          • Yeah, but this way would keep everyone happy. Also this would be aimed at a slightly older audience than the S/M main one looks like it will be. I like some of the filler in Pokémon as it can flesh out the regions and give Pokémon a chance to appear who otherwise may not. I liked the specials they had where Gold was the main character too.

          • You see this is where I have to disagree this does not show in anyway a more older audience as the target especially for something only 3 mins more

          • Ah, I see. I don’t think so however as its only for a short time they doing this thing.and even if it became a sub series not sure it justify as a substitute for another as some people call it older audience its like saying the anime itself can’t do it which I think it can without going too extreme x and y prove that atleast for some people with the battles

          • Yeah, I mean it could go towards aiming at over 10’s a bit more. From what I’ve seen XY has gone quite far to appeal to a wider audience, I’d like that to continue but I’m not sure if Sun/Moon looks like it will do that. It’s hard to tell right now without seeing more of it, if it is aiming for a young audience then there is room for a more general appealing anime alongside it imo.

          • They don’t need filler to flesh out the regions if they write things in arcs and have set goals. By filler I mean stuff like getting sidetracked with stupid stuff like dressing up like an eggplant to appease a giant claydol, not random battles. Battles are always good (though I do wish they’d stick more closely to the games and not keep inventing their own move combos and stuff). And even in ‘monster of the week’ format they could still advance an overall plot if done correctly, all they’d have to do is give a nod to the main plot here and there.

            You mean the Raikou ones from Chronicles? If so he wasn’t called Gold. He was called ‘Jimmy’ or ‘Kenta’ in the original. I must admit “The Legend Of Thunder” was probably one of my favourite sets of episodes. I liked Jimmy and Marina way more than Ash and Misty.

          • Yeah I see what you mean. I thought you meant anything outside of the main plot. Like there are episodes where they just go to a daycare for an episode and help care for the Pokémon, then either a mean Pokémon or Team Rocket show up, those ones I do like. I remember the Claydol episode, and how disappointing it was.
            And yeah the Raikou episodes (one of my favourite legendaries). I haven’t seen them in a while so forgot his name, I just remember he looked like Gold and Marina looked like Crystal. I thought his Beedrill was really cool and gave it something more outside of angrily swarming and chasing people. I actually really quite liked when Misty and Brock were travelling with Ash, they kind of balanced him and I liked that Misty challenged Ash’s stupidity. I have yet to watch the 6th gen anime, I have it all recorded and will start it when it finished airing here. I hope the companions aren’t as bad as 5th gen, Cilan made me not want to watch it.

          • Omg I stopped watching specifically because of Cilantro. I was like wtf am I even watching?? Why would they make him of all people, a main character on the show ?

          • Outside the plot stuff is fine as long as it’s got a reasonable objective and isn’t there just to be frivolous.

            Like in Pokemon Heroes when they compete in a water race at the begining, that sort of stuff is nice and actiony, but stuff like that episode where they’ve got to go up a mountain and reunine a brother and sister (something about dusk stones, murkrow and misdreavus I think) could’ve been spent doing something more interesting. It’s fine once in a while, but I’d still rather they had a bit more continuity rather than having loads of episodes you could watch out of sync and it not make a difference to the story.

            The only bad thing about Chronicles was the dreadful opening song.
            I liked his Typhlosion the most, it was a very fierce and energetic pokemon.
            Marina was a bit overenergetic and could be irritating, but Jimmy and Typhlosion balanced it out well and she did ok when things got tough. Plus she had a Misdreavus, which is always a bonus.

            I liked Brock but I never liked Misty, she was my least favourite companion. She was a complete nag.
            Despite his occaisional incidents with pretty girls, Brock was usually the most knowledgeable and most mature.

            I haven’t watched the anime regularly for a very long time, but I’ve seen one or two episodes from every series but Unova.

          • I agree. Occasional episodes like one where a Mr.Mime and Sneasel compete in adjoining restaurants are enjoyable for me though, maybe because anime food often looks so tasty 😛
            Oh I loved his Typhlosion, I just liked that Beedrill got a chance to shine too.
            I haven’t watched a full series of the anime since gen 2, though that was because we didn’t get the channels they were shown on. I have seen all of gen 3 anime and most of gen 4’s now though. I enjoy them mostly, though I dislike changes of voice actors, especially at one point mid-gen 3 where I think another company took over or something for the dub. I usually watch anime subbed but never have for Pokémon for some reason. I also like Dragonball dubbed and some movies but generally subbed is better. I think I may give gen 7 a try both subbed and dubbed for a few episodes.

          • Eating contest: Snorlax and Raticate are banned XD

            Mr. Mime vs Sneasel is an odd pairing, but if it’s done right it could be an interesting enough plot line.

            I’d like to see some more festivals. I remember one time where there was some sort of moon-worshipping festival and either Ash got something stolen and had to wait to get it back or one of his pokemon started getting involved. I can’t remember the full details but it made a nice change of pace.

            Yeah, not many beedrill around.
            Has the anime even had a mega beedrill yet?

            Meowth’s voice actress died in 2008 so that might be partly to do with it.

            I’ve only seen about 3 subbed episodes, and despite usually prefering subs, the original pokemon takes some getting used to. Most characters are fine, but Ash’s voice sounds really gruff and Meowth’s voice sounds really scratchy.

            On the other hand I went to One Piece subbed and never looked back 😛 I disagree with most people though, I think despite the horrible edits, 4kids actually did a better job of the voices for One Piece than Funimation.

          • The Mr.Mime VS Sneasel was a gen 3 episode (I think), pretty sure May’s Munchlax was in it.
            Festivals and things that celebrate the culture of this world, or their version of Japanese festivals, those sort of things are really great.
            I think Mega Beedrill may have been briefly seen in the Mega Evolution act, don’t know if it did anything though. I’ve only seen act 1 so far.
            That’s sad about Meowth’s voice actress, I didn’t know that. She was fantastic, really suited the character.
            I have heard Ash’s Japanese voice, his original american dub voice was closer to it, and I quite like it.
            One Piece is one of my absolute favourites. I saw maybe 1 episode of it dubbed years ago, I don’t remember it. I started reading the Manga and then watching the sub and I love it. I think they pronounce things weird in some dubs, like the Bleach dub, which is off-putting. I also remember they censored Sanji’s cigarette in the dubbed episode of One Piece I saw, replacing it with a lollypop, I didn’t know why it was weird at the time. Japan have different rules on what they allow though, especially compared to 4kids.

          • Might be, I only saw bits and pieces of that series, just enough to prefer May to a lot of other companions.

            Ironically me randomly thinking of festivals was how I dug up the E3 footage, since it features a festival.

            I’ve only seen the one with mega Blastoise, I remember its weird head clamp for its stone :P.

            (She was also transexual oddly enough.)
            She’d voiced a lot of great characters in her time, but Meowth will always be the most remembered.

            It’s not bad, it just sounds oddly gruff for a 10 year old XD

            I watched the dubbed series for a long time back when I was younger and started on the subbed series about 5 years ago. I have no regrets. I’m a bit behind at the moment, the last one I watched was the defeat of Doflamingo, but this way I’ll be able to watch loads in a row when I get back to it 😛

            Yeah, they’re not very good with pronounciation. I think all dubbers should be made to watch the series subbed before attempting any dubbing.

            They’ve censored a lot of stuff. They cut an entire miniarc out at one point, cut out a load of blood and were too scared to kill off any characters. Not to mention the usual changing characters to look white because they’re scared of blackface allegations. Oh, and who can forget the hammer-gun? (Image)
            http://orig08.deviantart.net/1d5c/f/2011/175/c/2/4kids_one_piece_by_narutodude96-d3jw71p.jpg
            And they cut out gallons and gallons of blood (reminder that in Japan, One Piece is aimed at children :P)
            But despite all the horrible horrible editing, they managed to get the voices more like the original characters than funimation.

          • One of my favourite bit’s of censorship was in an episode of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Bandit Keith aims a gun at Pegasus but it’s completely removed so he’s just pointing his hand awkwardly at him like he’s holding an imaginary gun and is about to shout “Bang! Bang!” at him.
            I do actually hate censorship, if the Japanese kids can cope with it I’m sure everyone else can.
            I probably would have watched more of the One Piece dub back then if I could find it again, I think I must’ve seen the last episode that aired here, I think it was on Toonami when that existed (I miss Toonami).
            I would like if they started showing more anime here, even dubbed and censored is better than the little we get now.
            We used to get stuff like Ultimate Muscle, Shaman King, Medabots, Sailor Moon etc, now it’s pretty much Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Digimon, which I like but we need more, especially with all the live action rubbish they put on.

          • Yeah, guns are their favourite thing to edit.

            I dislike censorship, but I’m not sure about other kids being able to cope with that sort of stuff. Aside from the drastic cultural differences, it might put a different spin on things. Lets not forget the amount of shootings other places in the world have. Like the Columbine incident for instance. Japan on the other hand has much less gun crime than other places (even other places where guns are supposed to be illegal). Heck, nowadays their defence force spends more time building snow sculptures than they do in combat or training with guns. (Sidenote: Joanna Lumley’s recent programme about Japan is pretty damn interesting).

            Yeah, it was either Toonami or Jetix.
            Must have been around 2006.

            Yeah, I remember some of those. Part of the issue is they weren’t very good at having a set time for the stuff to come on and we didn’t have Sky+ or any decent recording devices back then, it was just VCRs, DVDs hadn’t become a major thing yet.

            They do overdo the live action stuff these days because it’s cheaper. Disney’s the worst culprit, they’ve had more awful live action stuff than I can recall. Not to mention they unleashed that demon child Miley Cyrus on the world.

        • I think it’s too early to tell either way.
          It depends on your classification of ‘older audience’.

          They’re never going to introduce bloodshed, sex and romance if that’s what you think ‘older audience’ equates to.

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          • I don’t get what you trying to imply? Having all that stuff you listed doesn’t make a show mature (though they do help I suppose) but making a show that appears to be more action like instead of lack of a better term dragging on is not really a mature way either if that what people mean and see this as a substitute for those who don’t like the direction sun and moon are going(ie: older audience).I don’t see it and I don’t believe something that going to be short as a substitute

          • I’m saying the definition of something being aimed at an older audience is subjective to an individual’s viewpoint.

            At lot of people think you can’t have something aimed at adults without shoehorning sex, romance or violence into it. Personally I don’t agree with them, but then when you take those out of the equation it becomes a lot harder to define something as being aimed at adults or children.

            For example, does having a more complicated plot make something aimed at adults? I’ve known several preteens who can understand complex scifi plots far better than adults of 50+ can.

            The line becomes blurred and it becomes hard to know if something is truly adult oriented. All we can ever say for definate is there are things that are unsuitable for children, never that there are things that would make a series uninteresting to children.

          • Ah then I think we are in agreement of why do some people think those things automatically think makes a show mature. It is a subjective thing but from what I am getting around people are saying that this can be for the older audience while sun and moon go for the younger generation, when generations is just a celebration of the Pokemon franchise it seems, not to be some filler in for those who I guess no longer like the show,haven’t the anime prove that you can have the best of both worlds why not taking it to the extreme? I think this is where I disagree if people think that a show that has a bit more action going on as mature then I just don’t see how,shouldn’t x and y be counted too? Everyone brags about how the battles were more action pack. I think you get what I mean lol

          • Most people are probably already imagining what the next episodes are going to be like and making assumptions (something people like to do a lot round here). I prefer to actually see something before passing judgement because I’ve been bitten before with other things.

            I still think the SM series looks aimed more at the younger generation but I’d say so far the shorts are quite neutral all-rounders. I’d be willing to say the art style is more mature, but that’s a characteristic of the art rather than the plot.

            I can’t comment much on XYZ since I’ve only watched 2-3 episodes. Like I say though, ultimately there is only ‘unsuitable for children’, age is mostly irrelevent.

  22. I actually liked the first episode more. 2nd was definitely cool. Made me think of Death Note with the swat team and Looker trying to find Gio.

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