It's not that bad but they get basic things wrong like Electric moves working on ground.
What the h*** the whole premise is worse than Sonic's CGI FUR before he was changed for the movie.
Guns,insults, bearded ash, extremely scrawny pikachu all look like something that doesn't belong in pokemon.
For the record,
Pokémon Apocalypse was created as a joke parodying live action adaptations being darker and edgier. There have been similar things done with Super Mario .
Seems like everything wants to be live action. I mean, I get it, I want to see what this stuff would look like in real life to but I still don't think shows like Pokemon need to be seen in live action. Superheroes, Scooby Doo if done right, and Kim Possible can be live action but things like Pokemon and Lion King don't work for this kind of stuff.
Live action brings in more money than animation, at least before merchandise is factored in.
There hasn't been a successful mainstream animated series in North America aimed at adults that isn't a comedy in some way.
Morel Orel and
Final Space are the closest there has been;
Moral Orel was canceled BECAUSE it got too non-comedic, and
Final Space keeps an oddly low profile in the modern zeitgeist.
Batman is a good case example of this. There have been many attempts since the 90s to put Batman in primetime, or at least in places with general adult audiences, both animated and live-action. Only the live-action series have succeeded. Now Time Warner, which owns DC (and thus Batman), puts their animated TV-14 or TV-MA Batman output straight to video or streaming or is shown on Toonami, while the live-action Batman stuff with similar content ratings are shown on broadast primetime or are featured shows on servces like Hulu and Amazon Prime.
I feel like nobody asked for this. If they wanted to expand the Pokemon franchise they could just make more movies instead of a series because I think that's where the real money is.
The only way I'll watch this series is if it's based on another spin off game like Snap or Conquest.
It's not aimed at the fans who would be here on Serebii; it's aimed at non-fans who know about Pokémon but may have not played since Generation 1, played only
GO, or haven't played at all. It's the people who are interested in the franchise but don't want to be associated with its "babyishness" or that it's an old-fashioned turn-based JRPG series.
The Pokémon movies have fallen into the "continuity lockout" trap. They're aimed at pre-existing fans but at the cost of being unwatchable to anyone not already familiar with Pokémon. Outside of Japan, this is bad for revenue (which is why the Pokémon movies, outside of Japan, eventually migrated to direct-to-video, then direct-to-streaming, as theatrical screenings would render them unprofitable). And there have been enough Pokémon movies in this vein that film fans just shut them out immediately. They can't understand them, and as a consequence, they find them boring.
Detective Pikachu got to be the exception to this because, as mentioned prior, it's from the perspective of someone who has lived most of his life without much Pokémon influence, so the movie eases him, and by extension, the viewer, into it.
It's these people, who tune out all Pokémon movies and the anime out of expecting to be locked out, that this is aimed at.
