October 30th: PM2019 043 - Sword & Shield II: Black Night

[Dephender]

Screenplay 土屋理敬 (Michihiro Tsuchiya)
Storyboard 齋藤徳明 (Noriaki Saito)
Episode Director 門田英彦 (Hidehiko Kadota)
Animation Director 谷澤泰史 (Yasushi Tanizawa)
Animation Director 日置正志 (Masashi Hioki)

 

[Deleted member 384931]

I thought this could be Pikachu's Gigantamax training.

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

Ahh, the counterpart to White Day.

 

[diakyu]

This must be where Ash teams up with Leon to fight the dynamx Pokemon

 

[Leonhart]

I assume that this is where the Black Night story-line will truly pick up. Rose and Olive could make their debuts here if they don't already do that in the previous episode,

 

[janejane6178]

This must be where Ash teams up with Leon to fight the dynamx Pokemon

Atleast that way we will actually get to see him fighting the dynamax Pokemon.. unlike the games

 

[diakyu]

I assume that this is where the Black Night story-line will truly pick up. Rose and Olive could make their debuts here if they don't already do that in the previous episode,

Rose technically debuted in episode 27. Seeing that this arc was so close behind that Oleana should have been included then too imo

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

I assume that this is where the Black Night story-line will truly pick up. Rose and Olive could make their debuts here if they don't already do that in the previous episode,

They'll debut.

And promptly get sent to jail at the end.

 

[Mr.Munchlax]

I thought this could be Pikachu's Gigantamax training.

What is this “TRAI-NING” you speak of? You mean that stuff Ash & Goh do offscreen due to the show’s episodic format?

 

[Lacuna]

I hope this stays accurate to the games, where all the Dynamaxing happens off-screen and we just gotta take their word for it that it happened. /s

I'm kidding. Please don't do that. Anyway, I feel like we might see Rose and Oleana at the very end of Part I to sort of segue into this one. I wonder why they showed Rose a while back already but didn't even hint at Oleana's existence until now? She could have even just been in the background of that same shot. =P

 

[ShadowForce720]

What is this “TRAI-NING” you speak of? You mean that stuff Ash does offscreen due to the show’s episodic format?

You do realize that for the most part the show has always been in an episodic format.

 

[Twilight-Kun]

What is this “TRAI-NING” you speak of? You mean that stuff Ash does offscreen due to the show’s episodic format?

It's that thing that happens for a few seconds every 20 episodes or so and suddenly we're expected to believe that they're strong enough to take down an opponent who flattened them without issue before

 

[Mr.Munchlax]

You do realize that for the most part the show has always been in an episodic format.

Yeah, I know that the anime as a whole is usually like that, it’s just that lately it seems like they’re rushing through character & story arcs that in previous seasons would have more of a proper build up (ex- The Galar arc being only 4 episodes or how we haven’t seen Ash do any training for his rematch with Bea after the Flygon episode). The only thing in the show that seems to have a proper build up is Riolu’s eventual evolution

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

We saw Ash Tushie Twerk Training his rocky puppy and the rest of his team a lot of the times in battle-starved Alola.

Now we're having a lot of one-minute battles with nearly no training shown.

It's...ironic, to say the least, yet none of the samples above are endearing despite exploiting one side more than the other.

 

[Jangobadass]

And promptly get sent to jail at the end.

They'll probably get off the hook like Faba did and become recurring supporters.

 

[ShadowForce720]

Yeah, I know that the anime as a whole is usually like that, it’s just that lately it seems like they’re rushing through character & story arcs that in previous seasons would have more of a proper build up (ex- The Galar arc being only 4 episodes or how we haven’t seen Ash do any training for his rematch with Bea after the Flygon episode). The only thing in the show that seems to have a proper build up is Riolu’s eventual evolution

I mean to be fair back in X&Y after his he lost to Korrina and her Lucario before they gain the ability to Mega Evolve he didn’t really train for a rematch instead we got episodes focus on Korrina mastering Mega Evolution.

Sure his Fletchling evolved into Fletchinder and he got a Hawlucha before the Gym Battle and yet he didn’t really do that much to prepare his Pikachu and yet it somehow wound up winning against Mega Lucario with no onscreen training for the battle.

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

They'll probably get off the hook like Faba did and become recurring supporters.

I don't know. Letting a bunch of giant bearded Viking Meowth on a rampage across the region and possibly (read: not really) causing untold amounts of collateral damage is far more brutal and worthy of being tossed to jail than some comedic scientist harassing a single Pokemon (compared to the local evil gang constantly harassing dozens across the tropical region).

 

[Jangobadass]

(compared to the local evil gang constantly harassing dozens across the tropical region).

Even then Team Skull got off the hook too.

 

[AuraChannelerChris]

Even then Team Skull got off the hook too.

Yeeeah, that was weird and only made the Alolan police force much worse than other regions.

At least other police forces are shown making a single arrest!

 

[Red and Blue]

Did Malva get any punishment for her association with Team Flare?

Based on the images I doesnt like like Rose or Oleanna are getting the Lusamine treatment