Will this DP feature appear in the anime?

[PDL]

if you guys have been paying attention to the newest DP news, you would know that They've given slight sexual dimorphism to nearly all their gendered pokemon sprites, such as black spots on the wings of female butterfree.

do you think this little feature might show up in the anime's pokemon?

 

[Zabi]

That is a really good question, I don't think they will though, just because it will waste them time.

 

[dragonmaster_jonathan]

probably not, because there's a problem... it wasnt in the earlier episodes, so they couldnt really fit this feature in the show now...

 

[PDL]

probably not, because there's a problem... it wasnt in the earlier episodes, so they couldnt really fit this feature in the show now...

Abilites such as Pikachu's Static made it into the anime despite not being touched (pun lol) upon until Norman's battle.

 

[Torchic23]

Maybe, knowing our writers, they'll try for sure. Maybe they'll just think we won't notice if they add the features.

 

[dragonmaster_jonathan]

Abilites such as Pikachu's Static made it into the anime despite not being touched (pun lol) upon until Norman's battle.

i can understand how they fit abilities and new moves in... but they cant just suddenly change pikachu's appearance to its male (or female- i dont know what pikachu is) form, without this bothering people...

but then again, the male and female forms dont really have that much of a big difference... nothing more than bigger horns or markings... so with this in mind, they might be able to play this into the show

 

[PDL]

Maybe, knowing our writers, they'll try for sure. Maybe they'll just think we won't notice if they add the features.

knowing the writers, they'll just balantly point it out.

May: hay guyz, how come that wooper has shorter attenneas?

Brock: it's because that wooper's a girl lol

 

[CyberCubed]

Gravy pointed out in the other thread that its going to cause problems with the female Pokemon on the group.

Ash's Bayleef is a girl, will it be changed the next time we see it? Most of May's Pokemon are girls, (aside from Munchlax and maybe Eevee), will all her Pokemon have changes too?

Hell, I wonder if the female Bulbasaur in D/P will have hearts on its head just like May's Bulbasaur had.

 

[Midnight Umbreon]

I don't think will, at least, not until D/P is out... If they did it before, then it would give away all the ways the Pokemon are different. I don't know if that made sense or not.

I know I'm slow,
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[Gravy]

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Word, Cybercubed.

I also pointed out that the animators might just be too damn lazy to attempt it. Usually, if they want to differenciate two pokémon with alternate genders, a simple change in voice or (in rare situations) coloration is all they have to deal with.
If they had to look through every single pokémon and alter them to fit their various appearences in the diamond and pearl games, that's a heck of a lot of time they'll be wasting, especially considering they'd have to be consistant with it.
So personally, I don't see it happening.
UNLESS of course, they decide that they DO want to put the effort in, yet explain that the differences between genders are only native to Shinou. Or something just as cop-out-esque as that, I dunno.

 

[Juputoru]

They'll probably have the in-game gender differences as something "unique" to Shinou, similar to the slightly different Pokemon we got in the Orange Islands(whenever the animators remembered that the Pokemon were supposed to look different, anyway) - if they incorporate those specific gender differences at all. But if they DO incorporate those differences, I wouldn't put it past the animators to forget the less obvious differences after we've seen them once unless they were REALLY paying attention to what they were animating.

From this thread. Yay copy-paste.


So yeah. Probably Shinou-only thing, animators probably being lazy with it after the first few times, yadda yadda. Not much else to say. :/

 

[PDL]

or how about the animators being even lazier and having this appear in a single episode?

 

[.Bambi.]

UNLESS of course, they decide that they DO want to put the effort in, yet explain that the differences between genders are only native to Shinou. Or something just as cop-out-esque as that, I dunno.

That's what I was thinking. These small differences between Male and Female Pokemon could be for the region of Shinou only. Just like how Butterfree and such looked different in the Orange Islands.

But will the writerts attempt and/or be consistant with it? Not even God knows 0_0

 

[ZTcrazy]

I hope they do include it in, even if it is just for the heck of DP marketing or whatever, it'll just be funny watching the twerps thinking it's been there all the time .

 

[Team Rocket's Lugia]

i say it should be and previous pokes not modified, but the system made to fit pokemon. So a presumed male i.e. pikachu would stay the same, with future males looking similar, and femals being different, or future female bayleef would look similar to ash's, but males will them be different.

 

[JONNO.FRESH]

It all depends on how much effort the writers want to put in. If they want to put in effort then it could be used but i doubt it. The Gender Dif's will probably be pointed out once or twice and thats it

 

[sCiZoR_2006]

R/B/G/Y gave us our foundation for what Pokemon and that world.

G/S/C added onto the foundation (with things like Pokemon genders, shiny Pokemon and breeding)

R/S/E took introduced Jhoto ideas and made them more complex, with things of Pokemon characteristics, abilities, tougher breeding rules and the 2VS2.

D/P seems to be sandwiching on those previous ideas and making the games more difficult for players. Pokemon gender differences will most likely make breeding, battles and training much more difficult for players, so I see no reason why it should be left out anime-wise.

An explaination as to why we're seeing the gender differences now could be very simple. What I was thinking was that with every new region Trainers visit, new aspects of Pokemon world are steadily introduced to them. You can't just be in one area of the world know EVERYTHING there is to know about the world around you. A peron needs to travel and experience different thing in different places.

Prof. Oak could say that the reason Ash never noticed the differences before (really, the reason we never SEEN the differences before) is that only Trainers of a certian degree (also coinciding with Trainers who are visiting Shinou) are introduced to much more complex aspect of Pokemon.

That sounds a little an easier pill to swallow than just saying "Oh, those Pokemon differences are onlynative to Shinou, period."

 

[GonbeTR]

I think they can add this feature to the anime even if it is in contradiction with older episodes. They have done it before. For instance, some attacks' animation have changed: shadow ball, bubble beam. Moreover, I agree with sCiZoR_2006's experience idea, only experienced trainers can notice these little differences.

However, D/P has 2 different sprites for gender to make the game more realistic. But anime does not need ONLY 2 types for each pokemon because anime is already much more realistic than games. Remember Orange island pokemon have different patterns on them. In my opinion in anime, EVERY single pokemon has its own body features, not only 2 versions of it. For example, May's bulbasaur has hearts on its head. Therefore, maybe this feature will be in anime but there is already difference between al pokemon in anime.

 

[Ash6K]

I think the D/P feature would appear in the anime easily. I don't think that Ash and co. would notice the difference. I mean if Ash's Bayleef is a difference size than what we saw it, they wouldn't be like, "Bayleef, you are smaller!!" Or something like that. Anyway, at least we can tell which pokemon is a female and which one is male if they put the feature. (Though we won't have those male or female debates anymore...).