Yes, Unova! Finally, this mini-series has arrived at my favorite generation. And it surely lived up to my expectations. I really like the Unova Gym Leaders, they are my favorite group of Gym Leaders and seeing most of them animated was awesome. This also shows how different the animation style is in Generations compared to the regular anime, Iris looked quite different compared to what little I have seen on her from the regular anime. It has been forever since I last played through the story of B/W, so I re-watched parts of a walkthrough and it seems like Iris takes the player's place here. Does this mean we'll never see Hilbert/Hilda animated? One can always dream...
The Unova Pokemon League and N's Castle looked really cool. I was surprised to hear that this was when the Sages told their quotes, had forgotten that it happened here (but watching the walkthrough confirmed it). Proverbs from Chinese Philosophers (according to Bulbapedia), that's a rather interesting choice for a children's game. The way the stairs appeared looked so mysterious and cool. All the Gym Leaders did something which was great to see. I found Skyla's voice to be a bit weird though, that's not how I imagined her to sound. I like how Iris uses Druddigon while Drayden uses Haxorus, great idea in order to give them both a unique Pokemon despite having the same teams as Gym Leaders. Excadrill appearing out of the ground was so cool, Brycen takes things further and joins the fight on his own, and Drayden sounds really angry. Which is understandable given the situation.
I also like how it shows only Unova Pokemon, just like in the games. I feel that Generations have been very faithful to the games when it comes to which Pokemon appears in which games. Overall, I really liked this episode. This scene from the games is one of the few occasions where the Gym Leaders actually do something important in any story, and seeing it animated was so cool. New favorite episode? I think so. Though I might be biased since this is my favorite generation... but you can't take that away, it seems. Seeing this made the wait for Sun/Moon a little less painful, just 4 more days... Really looking forward to the next episode. I like having something little like this to look forward to every Friday, it is going to feel strange once all episodes have been released. I guess you can rewatch them, but it will only last for so long.