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  1. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    People are pointing out how this scene in the opening, it's all girls besides Roy. Besides Friede who is probably taking a backseat now that they're all in school, Horizons feels like it's being more aimed at girls now than boys. There's 5+ major female characters on the cast, more including...
  2. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    Liko, Roy and Dot battling Gym leaders as a test is cool, even if it's not the traditional badge route. Granted I don't think all 3 will battle all 8, but maybe split them between them all, like Liko battles 3 of them, Roy battles 3, etc. Ash being around always meant his companions could never...
  3. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    With the Legends Z game in 2025, it's pretty obvious this is going to be a long gen. Gen 10 probably won't come out till Fall 2025 at the earliest or even 2026, so Horizons is probably going to last at least 4 years before they change anything. So far the anime has barely covered anything from...
  4. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    There's probably some sense of irony that Horizons isn't a Paldea series and you look at these shorts and wonder why they don't do a short 13-26 episode anime just covering the game. Now that the anime has moved away from covering the games entirely for the most part and doing their own thing...
  5. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    This show is much more plot driven than Ash's Pokemon anime was, but at the same time, it's still pokemon. It's a kids show so people should know what to expect. A lot of people were always bored of the old Gym formula they had Ash do for 6 series in a row, so this is something completely...
  6. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    Seeing how that turtle matches Liko's color scheme, I guess they really did design her loosely based on it.
  7. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    It's kinda impossible to condense the story of the game to just 4ish episodes, especially with all the characters the game introduced, so it makes sense the anime didn't try to do that. Also how would they even do it, have Ash, Go (or Dawn) travel back in time and meet Dawn's ancestor? It really...
  8. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    You know with all the new game characters shown with the DLC and in Scarlet/Violet's base game, it really surprises me the Horizon's anime is filling out the cast with OC's (anime original characters), for both the main cast and villains. Like we got Nemona in the anime and some of the Paldea...
  9. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    First season made it blatant, chicken legs and what looks like a crab is on the plate. This is from the first St. Anne episode btw.
  10. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    Interesting is this is the second series in a row where the writers are allowed to do their own thing and not advertise the games much. Journey's didn't focus on Galar much and now this series has no Paldea characters at all. I wonder if something changed in the upper management allowing the...
  11. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    Hoping they actually don't bring in the Gym formula into this, the show actually has to have a plot if they don't cover 8 Gyms anymore. Doesn't seem like Liko is interested in challenging the Paldea Gyms anyway so I guess it's not happening.
  12. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    All the previews of Liko so far feel like the writers are trying to promote her similar to Dawn in the early DP era. Remember how Dawn got nearly all the first ep of DP to herself? Liko and the way she's being promoted so far gives me the same feeling, along with getting the most marketable...
  13. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    Goodra and Naganadel already returned at the end of their respective sagas for the leagues, so that's probably why they didn't feel the need to revisit them now. Goodra is still Ash's as he could transfer it over if he want, albeit Nagandel is a bit harder since it's in another dimension...
  14. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    Took a look at the first page of this thread, it was started back in 2012, over a decade ago, when Best Wishes was airing. Imagine telling someone back in 2012, when BW was airing which of course wasn't well received at the time, that the anime would end with Ash in about a decade later. Crazy...
  15. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    A Pokemon Master is something Ash came up with himself, so wanting to befriend every Pokemon in the world that he meets is fitting, and fits with the core themes of the series since the first season. These last 11 eps have constantly showed Ash help wild Pokemon he doesn't own, so they were...
  16. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    Seems like the anime will end open ended for Ash and TR, which works in case they want to revisit them for movies or specials down the line. It actually works better this way, Ash was never going to stop traveling and if TR and Giovanni ever get a proper conclusion I'd rather see a special or...
  17. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    I assume Liko and Roy will be co-protagonists like Ash and Go were, especially since the set-up of the new series seems very similar to Journey's in general where they'll be exploring all regions rather than just being in Paldea. At the very least though, I hope Liko challenges Gyms. We got...
  18. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    I just wish it didn't take them this long to realize Pokemon could go go on with new characters. If the show ended 10-15 years ago it would have had tighter continuity and a stronger ending. I remember people speculating the end of Ash since the Johto/Hoenn/DP days and it makes you wonder if the...
  19. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    I think it's quite possible ep 11 ends open ended in case they want to return to Ash for a movie or special by the end of the year. I doubt TR (or even Ash) will be in the 2023 series at all, since they seem to be introducing a huge new cast with no ties to the previous series.
  20. SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    It's weird to think there's only 3 episodes of Ash left for the forseeable future. Granted I am pretty sure he might get a special, or TV-type movie by the end of the year, so I doubt this is the end of him forever, but it's going to be a weird feeling.
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