RafaSceptile
Well-Known Member
Reviewing the Pokémon anime in 10 words or less:
"Ash blushed over a girl? Wait, that's illegal"
Episode: 5/10
"Ash blushed over a girl? Wait, that's illegal"
Episode: 5/10
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The School of Hard Knocks! (009)
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DankOverlord
Komodo Dragons Rule!
Daily reminder of this
cricketlaxwolvesbandy
Summoning...
I used to hate this scene. Now I take it for granted because ever since the end of OS Ash has been a stupid dense ****.
I'm hit and miss about this episode.
On one hand it's probably THE episode that most prevalently shows Shudo's original plans of a deconstruction of the "Pokemon journey", where the profession is a crapshoot and everyone is toxically 'serious business'.
On the other hand, it STILL tries to whitewash it all in the end by giving it a happy idealistic ending out of nowhere. Gizelle spent the entire episode an on-the-nose tyrant and Ash beating her doesn't really do much but make her a sore loser, and the school is still blatantly run on a flawed ethic. What fixed this? Stopping Team Rocket?
This would the first of many episodes to have this problem, where beating Team Rocket or some other irrelevant antagonist made everything all better, because....things, not even bothering to have a proper plot resolution. I get the feeling either executives were seriously toning down Shudo's original story idea here, or they were already becoming lethargic by the ninth episode in the whole show.
(Unless there's something that was seriously lost from the Japanese edit, I know early episodes were prone to that sometimes.)
On one hand it's probably THE episode that most prevalently shows Shudo's original plans of a deconstruction of the "Pokemon journey", where the profession is a crapshoot and everyone is toxically 'serious business'.
On the other hand, it STILL tries to whitewash it all in the end by giving it a happy idealistic ending out of nowhere. Gizelle spent the entire episode an on-the-nose tyrant and Ash beating her doesn't really do much but make her a sore loser, and the school is still blatantly run on a flawed ethic. What fixed this? Stopping Team Rocket?
This would the first of many episodes to have this problem, where beating Team Rocket or some other irrelevant antagonist made everything all better, because....things, not even bothering to have a proper plot resolution. I get the feeling either executives were seriously toning down Shudo's original story idea here, or they were already becoming lethargic by the ninth episode in the whole show.
(Unless there's something that was seriously lost from the Japanese edit, I know early episodes were prone to that sometimes.)
Flashyspark
Well-Known Member
Why do people always make a big deal about that? It was one of those early series things where the writers didn't know jack **** about the characters they were writing for yet so they had them say things that were out of character by today's standards. Reminds me of how people still talk about Ash's dad even when the dude was only mentioned one time in episode 2 smh.
lemoncatpower
Cynical Optimist
no one will ever be more beautiful than Giselle and that is the story of why he will never blush at another girl again.
DankOverlord
Komodo Dragons Rule!
Dude, take a chill pill it's a joke FFS
EmberFireTrainer
An anomaly
Gizelle kinda reminds me of a female version of Gary Oak just with how arrogant she comes off.
Mythical-Moonlight
God I wish that were me (Misty)
Ash x Gizelle endgame. No further elaborations
Zoruagible
Lover of underrated characters
Giselle will always be my favorite COTD. It's a shame they don't make them like her, AJ and Samurai anymore
Pokegirl Fan~
Well-Known Member
I really wished that Giselle came back in the PWC. She was one of the more unique and interesting cotds imo
