June 9th: SM125 - Satoshi: A Timeless Encounter!

[Doppelgänger]

Ash won't recognize him, but Torracat will, since he was able to identify both Kukui and Incineroar by scent.

 

[Kintaro]

Why?

Parents create children. They are integral to every character's backstory, whether they're around or not. Why wouldn't that be important?

Depends if they need a backstory. Dawn and Serena have absent fathers and nobody really cares. People just assume their mothers are divorced or their fathers died, but nobody was asking for an episode or story about it.

 

[Doppelgänger]

Google tells me there's been plenty of speculation on Dawn or Serena's fathers. I didn't have to search - lineage and legacy plays a major role in other cartoons like Naruto, Dragon Ball and One Piece. Unless the character is very minor, it's something people want to know about, even if it's just confirming what people have assumed.

This is why the "origin story" is the most popular format for beginning superhero films, as opposed to something "in media res". The backstory is introduced and is essential for providing insight into the character and where they go. Latter stories have to either gloss over those details or assume prior familiarity.

 

[Kintaro]

Google tells me there's been plenty of speculation on Dawn or Serena's fathers. I didn't have to search - lineage and legacy plays a major role in other cartoons like Naruto, Dragon Ball and One Piece. Unless the character is very minor, it's something people want to know about, even if it's just confirming what people have assumed.

This is why the "origin story" is the most popular format for beginning superhero films, as opposed to something "in media res". The backstory is introduced and is essential for providing insight into the character and where they go. Latter stories have to either gloss over those details or assume prior familiarity.

If you mean fanfiction, there's fanfiction for anything. People can make fanfiction of why Pikachu likes ketchup (and I'm sure there is). It doesn't mean people were dying to know about it in-series. People didn't spend the entire span of DP or XY thinking, "When are they going to introduce Dawn/Serena's father? When will this plot point be revealed?" because obviously...we didn't need to know. It's not important.

If they make a plot point about something like Mohn, then sure, but otherwise it's irrelevant.

 

[Leonhart]

Ash won't recognize him, but Torracat will, since he was able to identify both Kukui and Incineroar by scent.

That's what I'm hoping for, but part of me thinks that the writers might forget that Nyaheat should be able to recognize people's scents or that they'll purposely overlook it just because they can.

 

[TheScentedApple]

So is the Trevanant an actual Totem, we haven't seen any pokemon other than Gen 7 Pokemon be Totem sized yet, but it looks ginormous, could this be the first instance of Dynamax?

 

[TheWanderingMist]

So is the Trevanant an actual Totem, we haven't seen any pokemon other than Gen 7 Pokemon be Totem sized yet, but it looks ginormous, could this be the first instance of Dynamax?

Probably not Dynamaxed. Unless Kukui decides to call it that in the episode and it catches on.

 

[Leonhart]

So is the Trevanant an actual Totem, we haven't seen any pokemon other than Gen 7 Pokemon be Totem sized yet, but it looks ginormous, could this be the first instance of Dynamax?

I don't think it's Dynamax, but it might be a reference to that. Still, the Totem theory seems far more likely to me because we're in the Alola era still.

 

[WaterShuriken]

Well also remember, Trevenant is also a Ghost-type. Ghost-types in the anime have always been shown to have bizarre powers, so the giant size might also just be an illusion or something to that effect.

 

[Leonhart]

Well also remember, Trevenant is also a Ghost-type. Ghost-types in the anime have always been shown to have bizarre powers, so the giant size might also just be an illusion or something to that effect.

That's a good point since looking back we have seen Ghost-types make all kinds of illusions to change their surroundings. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case with the giant Ohrot here, too.

 

[i2i]

Well also remember, Trevenant is also a Ghost-type. Ghost-types in the anime have always been shown to have bizarre powers, so the giant size might also just be an illusion or something to that effect.

That's a good point since looking back we have seen Ghost-types make all kinds of illusions to change their surroundings. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case with the giant Ohrot here, too.

I think Trevenant is simple just totem Pokémon and we're just overanalyzing it.

 

[playerking]

We have some new images.

https://cho-animedia.jp/anime/97172/

The Makuhita image and one with Professor Kukui as a kid and Litten have some blurriness around the edges, so maybe the Hala bit will just be a part of Professor Kukui's flashback.

 

[Leonhart]

We have some new images.

https://cho-animedia.jp/anime/97172/

The Makuhita image and one with Professor Kukui as a kid and Litten have some blurriness around the edges, so maybe the Hala bit will just be a part of Professor Kukui's flashback.

Well it's good that Hala's at least implied to appear here since he's one of the few characters that I actually wanted to see during Satoshi's trip into the past.

 

[Doppelgänger]

Rather tasty looking lunch the cats have here, wouldn't you say?

 

[satopi]

Can't believe SM turned out to be another BW with no fully evolved starter.

Two words: Lana’s Primarina

 

[TheWanderingMist]

Two words: Lana’s Primarina

Took way too long to get there. This applies to all the SM girls, as literally all the guys had secondaries or evolved Pokemon by episode 34.

 

[satopi]

Took way too long to get there. This applies to all the SM girls, as literally all the guys had secondaries or evolved Pokemon by episode 34.

I’d rather it take longer for a Pokémon to fully evolve than to evolve at a fast rate like Goodra.

 

[TheWanderingMist]

I’d rather it take longer for a Pokémon to fully evolve than to evolve at a fast rate like Goodra.

Oh yeah, I agree, but still, they just didn't want to give the girls anything this region and it's been infuriating.

 

[ShadowForce720]

Oh yeah, I agree, but still, they just didn't want to give the girls anything this region and it's been infuriating.

What's sad was while it was understandable why it would take Lillie awhile to get a 2nd pokemon do to having to overcome her trauma, however when it comes to Mallow and Lana there were pokemon that could have easily work as secondaries for them for instance they could have extended the Akala Island arc a little bit and turned the Dewpider episode into a capture episode for Lana and have it happen during the Akala Island arc, while in Mallow's case they could have likewise have her get a capture during the Akala Island arc in the form of Cutiefly/Ribombee or even a Fomantis.

After all if I remember correctly didn't Mallow say that she thought Fomantis were cute when she and Ash encountered them or maybe I'm remembering wrong, however Cutiefly/Rimbombee could easily help Mallow out with chores and as a Rimbombee it could easily act as a Waiter/Waitress and Mallow could even add meals that incorporate Rimbombee's Pollen Puffs into the Menu for her restaurant.

With Lillie I think given her bond and backstory with Celfable I think it would have been fine if Lusamine decided or decides to give Cleafable to Lillie, although her getting a Alolan Sandshrew or even another Ice type pokemon could have worked as well.

 

[TheScentedApple]

Well the new preview confirms its firium z kid Kukui has, meaning I’m sure Torracat will earn this from Kukui in either the past or the present