Well, I suppose it's an improvement over XY, which kept about half of even that. Wish they'd keep some of the route/city themes like Hau'oui City more often though.
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A Curry-zy Beautiful Battle! The Dance of Lurantis! (978)
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Well, I suppose it's an improvement over XY, which kept about half of even that. Wish they'd keep some of the route/city themes like Hau'oui City more often though.
Tabasco Boshi
★★★★★
I don't think this is an improvement over anything, tbh. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMHFmjwUIAAVcRh.jpg
My memory may not be correct but I remember XY rarely ever reaching green at all, and WAY more Title Card only examples (or at least borderline since they always keep the TR theme and the TRio were far more recurrent there).
And as said, SM at least keeps more of the game related tracks, even some more obscure game ones like the Sinnoh and Kalos remixes, XY kept the Trainer battle, Title Card and that was usually it for games music.
Tabasco Boshi
★★★★★
Sun and Moon is just slightly above XYZ. XY was a bit better (still terrible). When we see episodes like this one, with only 5 themes kept, as decent, we clearly have a problem.
Tabasco Boshi
★★★★★
Only season 14, which is the best season in terms of music kept of all time. Season 15 starts being cheap with that, and Season 16 is barely watchable. I don't need to mention from Season 17 onwards, the GGG era.
I'll give SM at least some credit, while the ratio isn't good they at least pinpoint more game themes, keeping some of the Sinnoh and Kalos theme cameos rather than just the basics (eg. main Pokemon theme, TR motto, current region's wild battle theme). Add some of the route/city themes to the mix and I'll consider it halfway decent (some episodes might at least reach double digits there).
Ryu Taylor
Unwavering beliefs. Richter Taylor is my name now.
Personally, I just want fitting music. I get that from the dub so much more than I ever got it from the JP version (in fact, I can count on only one of my hands the amount of times dub music was unfitting). So if JP music must be kept, better it be a track that was fitting to begin with. And luckily for this episode's dubbed self, fitting tracks were picked for the keeping. Last week's suffered big time for terrible choices of JP music to keep, and I never thought I'd be saying something like that.
Partly yes, and I stand by that for the original background music, but nostalgia and appeal plays into the game themes (and in fairness most of the game soundtracks are iconic and awesome). I mean, even if they could make the most elegant well synced original action theme possible, would a Pokemon fan rather have that play instead of 'Burning Battlefield' during a battle in the original series?
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Ryu Taylor
Unwavering beliefs. Richter Taylor is my name now.
Maybe. I don't know about others, but I'd be open for that. Depending on how that hypothetical track turns out, I could see myself admitting it's just as good as "Burning Battlefield."
I do agree that the game soundtracks are awesome (except the XY game soundtrack, which the show somehow managed to make sound even worse), and that's another factor to me preferring the show's dub music overall; I've never preferred how the show's remixes of the game music sounded over the actual game tracks themselves, even for the stuff in the past I like. Plus (and this applies more from XY onward than it did before, even though it's been there from the beginning albeit to a lesser extent), they're usually so clumsily and haphazardly used, in addition to frequent reuses. I'd die of liver cancer (fulfilling the wishes of many in the fandom) if I took a shot for every time I heard the Snowbelle City theme be reused for anything remotely sad. And I'm sure you remember how ruthless I was when getting on SM021JP's case for letting it **** up an historic moment. God, that was so satisfying.
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I do understand that some of the JP themes get overused, but here's the thing, in the dub we never heard the Snowbelle theme ONCE, not even on occasions it fit and hadn't yet used up it's effective quota. I know some people make exception for SM21's change because the dub made a track that was as good and was after Snowbelle had been long overused in the JP version, but that's not always the case. We've had plenty themes that were used properly and reasonably and replaced with something generic that ruined the whole mood. Hell, I think I even remember a couple times we got NO music, which almost felt like the dubbers saying 'it's our's or nothing'.
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LilligantLewis
Bonnie stan
The beginning of the episode reminded me of Serena's dream at the beginning of XY58.
Zoruagible
Lover of underrated characters
Rowlet getting choked was the most hilarious thing.
Mallow really should of caught one of those Fomantis, poor girl got ripped off hard this arc.
The Akala Totems so far are very boring compared to Gumshoos and Raticate. I really hope the Fire Totem is better whenever it shows up. Lurantis was better than the lame Wishiwashi Trial at least, it actually attacked! Annoying how Litten's battle got hijacked by that stupid owl though. Certainly took long enough for Litten to use a z-move....
6/10
Mallow really should of caught one of those Fomantis, poor girl got ripped off hard this arc.
The Akala Totems so far are very boring compared to Gumshoos and Raticate. I really hope the Fire Totem is better whenever it shows up. Lurantis was better than the lame Wishiwashi Trial at least, it actually attacked! Annoying how Litten's battle got hijacked by that stupid owl though. Certainly took long enough for Litten to use a z-move....
6/10
LilligantLewis
Bonnie stan
It did use Synthesis
It WAS the best battle in this series! Just check where I'm from lol. (My Location in the top right corner of every post)
It's awesome to see the rare moment when Janovy and 345ash-greninja can agree
Hm..... maybe a bush could be considered foliage?
This is one of the many reasons the Olympia battle is the best gym battle in the history of the show
Im not sure what Gennady Golovkin has to do with it
Tabasco Boshi
★★★★★
GGG is a fan term some of us created to describe the current era. Goldfarb (dub music composer), Gopal (dub music editor) and Greed (a perfect description of TPCi).
TheWanderingMist
Paladin of the Snow Queen
Why are people complaining about the use of the word "trials"? I know Japanese doesn't really use plurals, but the dub at least implied that ingredient gathering and the Totem battle were in fact separate trials instead of one long trial
Ryu Taylor
Unwavering beliefs. Richter Taylor is my name now.
As you can tell, @Lilligantlewis , it's a hater term, not a fan one.
I sometimes use that acronym myself, except when I use it, that final G stands not for "Greed" (which only TPCi's haters see them as), but for "Godsend" (my personal preferred description of TPCi, considering their hard work in turning a pathetic excuse of a show that would by all rights be unsalvageable into a watchable and enjoyable Saturday morning cartoon).
Who knows with these people? Anything's fair game to them. Besides, Ash had a helping hand in the other trials on Akala Island. Those likely count.
Leonhart
Imagineer
This episode's main weakness was pretty much what I had anticipated, in that Mao hardly did anything while Satoshi got to battle the Totem Lalantis. Satoshi winning the Z-Crystal was good and all, but I was hoping for more involving the subplot about the quest to find the curry ingredients.
AuraChannelerChris
Easygoing Luxray.
I like how absolutely no one points out the fact Lana cleared a trial and had the right to fight Olivia, unless the Totem she fought wasn't exactly an official one or anyone without the charm holding the proofs of beating Kahunas don't count.
The Fomantis were weird. They clearly were woken up by the group, but they just let them move until they made slightly more noise.
That Totem Lurantis has to be the most pathetic Totem ever. All it took to defeat it was one straight Z-Crystal blow. The battle was mostly just Ash watching the thing preparing blows and Rotom Dex explaining every single thing that occurred. I also like the fact murderous Totems are by definition good monsters to heal right back up, so everything else is out to kill you.
So why was Mallow even needed?
Olivia: I had Mallow stand by and watch everything!
...Says the woman who kept stalking the two from the dark (in a world where police won't find such fact suspicious), which only makes Mallow's importance in the episode useless. At least Olivia knows exactly what role Mallow has as a whole in the anime. Ha ha.
The Fomantis were weird. They clearly were woken up by the group, but they just let them move until they made slightly more noise.
That Totem Lurantis has to be the most pathetic Totem ever. All it took to defeat it was one straight Z-Crystal blow. The battle was mostly just Ash watching the thing preparing blows and Rotom Dex explaining every single thing that occurred. I also like the fact murderous Totems are by definition good monsters to heal right back up, so everything else is out to kill you.
So why was Mallow even needed?
Olivia: I had Mallow stand by and watch everything!
...Says the woman who kept stalking the two from the dark (in a world where police won't find such fact suspicious), which only makes Mallow's importance in the episode useless. At least Olivia knows exactly what role Mallow has as a whole in the anime. Ha ha.