shoz999
Back when Tigers used to smoke.
I enjoy reading the Pokemon Adventures manga and one of the things I love is that while the art-style in the back can be simple at times, you can still notice all these little details and subtle character developments such as the story being written through their facial expressions and actions without uttering a single word and these different "camera" angles that help forge a certain type of tone from dread to hopeful and wonder. All these little details and subtle cues help make a character feel more like a real person. It's this kind of stuff that I rarely, if at all, see in animation from the Pokemon series. Which is why this animation really surprised me as someone who is a fan of animation and the Pokemon Adventures manga. This is honestly the kind of animation I've always wanted to see from Pokemon.
The lighting, the camera angles, the quiet scenery in the background, the color overtones, the focus of the camera work, the different angles along with the numerous facial expressions and body movements that can make a bare-bones character like Chairman Rose feel like a legitimate character? I haven't seen anything like this from Pokemon since Pokemon Adventures which started in 1997, 1 month before the anime was released. I'm serious, if you told me that both Lysandre of the anime and games felt artificial to you, I'd bring up Lysandre of the manga who feels like a legitimate person because of the facial expressions, simple body movements like just sitting down and putting his leg over the other, "camera" work and quiet scenery in the background of the panels that helps make Lysandre feel less like this artificial character to serve as a way to move the plot and more like an actual person and threat to the main characters. Which is why I think some of you can understand that this animation really surprised me. Wow, this is just wow because I'm surprised to see this measure of thought and detail put into the characters even though it's just six minutes. That is like insane considering how stubborn the Pokemon Company can be that there are times I honestly thought I would never see this kind of animation in my entire lifetime. I think Pokemon Adventures might have a worthy challenger here. I mean sure, Pokemon Generations exists and it's also awesome but nothing on this level in terms of camerawork and attention to detail. Honestly the only thing I felt was missing and this is really just nitpicking is a bit of humor here and there. It's only the first episode but in all honesty, this is easily in my opinion the best piece of Pokemon animation there is and this is just the animation and details. I haven't even gotten into talking about the plot which is simple but still a bit of heartwarmer. Also the voice-acting is just phenomenal. Praise to the voice-acting for breathing even more personality into these characters.
To sum it up, this is easily in my very top favorite Pokemon mediums, easily surpassing Pokemon Generations which itself is already really good Pokemon content. It may even go past the video games in my opinion depending on what I see later. I can't wait to see the rest.
After all that, I'm thinking. I wonder if whoever at GameFreak designed Leon is a big One Piece fan if you people get what I'm saying lol.
The lighting, the camera angles, the quiet scenery in the background, the color overtones, the focus of the camera work, the different angles along with the numerous facial expressions and body movements that can make a bare-bones character like Chairman Rose feel like a legitimate character? I haven't seen anything like this from Pokemon since Pokemon Adventures which started in 1997, 1 month before the anime was released. I'm serious, if you told me that both Lysandre of the anime and games felt artificial to you, I'd bring up Lysandre of the manga who feels like a legitimate person because of the facial expressions, simple body movements like just sitting down and putting his leg over the other, "camera" work and quiet scenery in the background of the panels that helps make Lysandre feel less like this artificial character to serve as a way to move the plot and more like an actual person and threat to the main characters. Which is why I think some of you can understand that this animation really surprised me. Wow, this is just wow because I'm surprised to see this measure of thought and detail put into the characters even though it's just six minutes. That is like insane considering how stubborn the Pokemon Company can be that there are times I honestly thought I would never see this kind of animation in my entire lifetime. I think Pokemon Adventures might have a worthy challenger here. I mean sure, Pokemon Generations exists and it's also awesome but nothing on this level in terms of camerawork and attention to detail. Honestly the only thing I felt was missing and this is really just nitpicking is a bit of humor here and there. It's only the first episode but in all honesty, this is easily in my opinion the best piece of Pokemon animation there is and this is just the animation and details. I haven't even gotten into talking about the plot which is simple but still a bit of heartwarmer. Also the voice-acting is just phenomenal. Praise to the voice-acting for breathing even more personality into these characters.
To sum it up, this is easily in my very top favorite Pokemon mediums, easily surpassing Pokemon Generations which itself is already really good Pokemon content. It may even go past the video games in my opinion depending on what I see later. I can't wait to see the rest.
For me, that's how I exactly imagined Corviknight's size based on the games. Not the size from the Pokemon battles but how big Corviknight is in the in-game world, especially that part where he blocks off a route. That was when I was surprised how big he was.
All the more reason to look forward to this piece of animation. To see the Galar region as it's very own character. You know. Now that I said that, oh man. I don't think I've actually ever got that feeling of the region feeling like it's own character from the games as opposed to something like Alola, Unova and even Kalos as short of a region that was.
One of the reasons why I thought Chairman Rose is the worst Pokemon villain so far of the games is that he felt like just another Lysandre. Here in this animation, he kind of reminds me of Tony Stark who is trying to do good but ends up creating a whole ton of problems for the world. I hope the Pokemon Adventures manga goes into a similar direction.
I can't remember if this happens in the games but in the Pokemon Adventures Sword & Shield manga, the first time Sou (Victor) and Schilly (Gloria) meet Champion Leon is hilarious.
The two main characters are watching TV of the upcoming Pokemon Champion Match hosted far away in Wyndon City which is located all the way north of Galar only to later find the Pokemon Champion himself seemingly being chased by a herd of Wooloo in Wedgehurst which is literally almost all the way on the opposite side of the Galar Region from Wyndon. When that little adventure is over, Leon takes a train to Wyndon's League Match only to get lost somewhere else again.
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