Some (actually, various) coments:
- Watching a heated Nidorino vs Gengar fight in his room AND apparently getting late to a meeting with Oak? Hmmm;
- Turning the cap backwards. Ok, now that whole story may become really hilarious;
- The characters' faces are so... blocky. I don't know. Their heads just seems a bit too awkward. I dunno if it's meant to be a reference to the games' sprites or not but still bugs me;
- So... they justified Red's names AND why he picked Charmander at the same time.... Obvious explanations are obvious but that's better than nothing;
- By the way, is it or did Red mentioned his father?;
- And Green offers Red to pick his mon first and going against the "matching colour" picks up Squirtle and all that tying to the explanation Red gave. Clever, writers;
- And people complain about Ash throwing balls at mons without aweaking them. At least, Ash has never tried to catch a Pokemon from a trainer he was battling against
Jokes apart, that scene made Red look a bit too dumb, honestly;
- Is Squirtle using Water Gun or throwing up its lunch?;
- Green's Squirtle killing Red's Charmander? I can see the fandom making fun of that scene;
- Hey look, it's the videophone
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- Brock teaching and explaining stuff. Well, I guess some traits became iconic enough to be always associated with a certain character hehe;
- They are having hard breathing because all that time wasted with fancy and over the top poses ;
- A disket? Man, that's old stuff.... Anyway, now I got curious to see how they'll show the TM being used;
- Stupid caption box. I wanted to see a full shot of Raichu ;
- Different looking nurses. Now, that's something new;
- That random Oddish is adorable;
- The part with Marowak was... somewhat heavy. But... a ground type being killed with a machine that emits eletricity? Stating that machine =/= pokémon attack won't work for me;
- So... Red went to Lavender Pokemon tower at night. And... with a lantern. Why can't GF make this thing a freaking item in the games? Way to make us waste a slot in our mons' learnset with Flash ;
- Whatever happened to the whole "your pokemon is too scared to battle against ghost?";
- Ok, that part with Marowak and Cubone was heartwarming... although it's clearly noticeable some parts were rushed. Passable though;
- Wild pokemon helping against TR? Where have I seen that before?;
- What's up with those "vampire-like" eyes of Giovanni?;
- No Wartotle? How... disappointing;
- Green keeps his badges behind his jacket? Where did I see that before?
- A pokemon with type advantage losing to a poke it was supposed to be strong against? A regular anime trope appearing here? Wasn't Red labelled as the ultimate pokemon trainer?
- That Rhyhorn is way too overpowered;
- Wait... wasn't Jolteon volt absorb? It was supposed to be immune to eletric type moves;
- So... Giovanni's starter was Charmander...;
- Honestly, I'm not convinced with Giovanni being moved by Red's act. After all, it took Red SIX of his pokemon to beat TWO of Giovanni's;
- Was that... the good and old sismic toss?;
- That battle was completly cheap. Giovanni's Rhydon was pathetic compared to his Rhyhorn (which sweep FIVE of Red's pokémon);
- In Red's place... rather than accept the badge, I'd punch his face and just call the police haha;
- Wow, Agatha looked like a man in that first shot;
- A Lapras fighting in the land! I think I haven't see that since the Orange Island episode where Ash fought for the second badge (or was there a pool Ash's Lapras was in? I don't remember);
- Self-reparing walls? Really?;
- Blastoise was defeated by Fire Blast. So, the glorious and overhyped Red has won using a pokemon attack whose type was weak against the adversary's. Where are you now Ash haters? C'mon, explain that one *Gemini Saga evil laugh*;
- Red just meets a Pikachu and throws a ball at it. Just after becoming champion. Nice use of the game logic (where it could be done). But for some reason, I found it hilarious;
- Mewtwo looking overpower enough to the point of beating Red's Articuno.... Yeah, definetely something it would come from the original games;
- I like this Mewtwo. Quiet and doesn't go all emo reflecting on his role in the world. And goes straight to the point: fight until you faint haha;
- Charizard Mega Digivolve to Burst Mode lol;
- No MasterBall? Well... fair enough since its use would make everything too easy and wouldn't give the story a chance to introduce Mega Charizard X;
- And now he poses after getting a Pokémon...;
- Red will have to attend the event if he wants Mew lol
- Ah, now I get why the animation looked familiar at some part. It had Xebec's involvement and that's the same studio that did the Mega Man Star Force anime.
Well, as for the special... I find it ok. Maybe it's because I didn't play the original Gen I games but I didn't see anything all that remarkable in it. Sure, it was decent and to those who don't like the current anime, it's a pleasant breeze. But while it had some nice things (like the Marowak mom, WatcherMark has mentioned and some parts of the battles, I missed something. Maybe it's because it had cram a whole game in less than two hours.
Also, Red didn't impress me. He remained the whole movie being the typical japanese series protagonist but I couldn't sympathize with him. And no, it has nothing to with the regular anime since I tend to be open-minded. But his character... yeah... just fine.
It's not the special itself I have a problem with, I enjoyed it for what it was. It's the blind Red fanboys and Ash/main anime haters that are gonna be a pain.
Do like me: just bring up the point Ash, even on his worse, never tried to throw a poké-ball at other trainer's pokémon. And that Red has won a Blastoise, in the league's final match, with a Charizard using Fire Blast.
The reason they don't showcase Abilities, is because this was based off the original games, Abilities don't exist. While yes they updated it in Gen III to have abilities, I believe Oak stated at the beginning of the special they're were 150 species of Pokemon, making this gen I only
No abilities? Ok, now Jolteon's loss became more forgivable.
Still odd though because they updated with some aspects born from later games though.
