I haven't been following leaks so this whole thing came out of the blue for me. Quite frankly the word I'd use to describe it is "uninspired". If it came out on its own without Midday or Midnight then it would've been fine and my reaction would've been different, granted it looks better in the...
You could say we're... LEAGUES... away from that discussion.
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Episode itself wasn't inherently bad because of the interrupted battle but I honestly thought they'd wait for a while before TR showed up. I'm talking maybe after Rockruff fainted and Pikachu stepped up or...
I could easily see them doing something similar to Hala, giving Probopass the Z-Move for Olivia instead of Lycanroc. In the games her Probopass was more prominent, ie it was in her shop in Konikoni City (or whatever it was called), it's also the last one she sends out in E4 matches I think...
I've said this a bunch of times but if it doesn't evolve like the description said, where it leaves the trainer and returns evolved, I won't be happy. Unless it's a well-done battle evolution.
It'd be a waste if it didn't evolve tbh.
Looked like Koko used Nature's Madness and (probably) Discharge in my opinion.
Didn't really pay much attention during the Sophocles part but even when I did it didn't come off as that engaging. I suppose subs would help to pick up on anything remotely useful. I guess the part in his lab was...
Episode content was pretty spot on for me. A nice little story for Rockruff leading to the capture. Enjoyed it more than Rowlet's one.
The negatives I have on this episode are very minute in the scale of the whole episode but are still there. While I was fine with the Shellder transition there...
Aren't you the same person who complained about not being allowed a negative opinion of XY? Good lord...
I really don't need to go into every single thread and see someone slagging off XY or constantly needing to say how poor Serena was at battling and in development (not you specifically). Not...
Put it this way, I'm definitely behind Ash getting a Rockruff/Lycanroc (I used one in-game myself), but I'm not going to 100% convince myself into believing Ash will be given Rockruff here just in case he doesn't. So, you know, there's not a situation where people get mad about no capture...
I love Bewear so much, it's dramatic TR rescue wasn't crazy (although it's got some leaps) but that scene with Jessie was hilarious.
The change in character for Lillie between the games and anime kind of gives me some vibes of N, except it's the other way around for N (ie genuine trainer...
Kind of expanding on a point Soniman brought up, I do have a feeling that only Ash and Lillie will get respectable stories/development built around them this series. Right now Lana and Sophocles seem particularly irrelevant, Mallow's appearing often but hasn't really shown anything to indicate...
Say it enough and it might come into existence.
Funnily enough out of all the "annoying" things in this series, I'd put Rotomdex quite low on that list. It's improved since the debut and actually has some entertaining aspects to it.
Watch this have 5 seconds of non-filler content so we now...
You can only just see it's hair in the background during that particular scene.
James is actually using Mareanie this time.
Are they going to be showing the egg hatching again in this episode or did they just use that scene in the preview for some context? Not that I think it was needed in...
This is the same anime where it's perfectly ok for an odd looking Pelipper (XY Sky Relay) and Bewear to have rockets coming out of their *** that give them abnormal speed boosts.
A lot of episodes are better than that one. But it doesn't excuse this episode of doing exactly the same thing. Not that people seem to be trying to do that as of right now.
The difference here is that they were just goofing around and had some funny moments while that episode was superficially...
I hope you're using the word essential in a different way because 40 seconds wouldn't justify me telling someone to watch the whole episode. Not to mention you could just skip this episode and watch the next episode which is basically picking up from where it ended. You wouldn't really miss...
It was 40 seconds of "non-filler" guys... We might as well have had this episode be a Lillie focused one looking at her past and why she's afraid to touch Pokemon following into next week's episode. That would've been better.
Plus points of this episode: Bewear, Kiawe, Togedemaru getting "mad"...