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Pokémon (better version)


Pokémon is a Japanese anime series that started in 1997 in Japan on April 1st (April Fools Day) of that year, and still airs to this day. It is based on the video game franchise of the same name.

Summary
Ash Ketchum (Satoshi in the original Japanese version), a boy from Pallet Town, dreams of becoming the greatest Pokémon Master, and with the help of Misty, Brock, and Pikachu, he can succeed further to his dreams.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Follows the source material very faithfully.
 * 2) Very solid and detailed animation that constantly improves; plus the designs of the Pokémon are highly imaginative and colorful.
 * 3) Lots of funny moments and jokes, though they are more common in the English dub.
 * 4) An incredible music score.
 * 5) Pikachu is solely often times the best part, and he is really cute.
 * 6) A very wide range of likable characters, the most memorable characters being Ash, Misty, and Brock, with latter two of which originating from the Indigo League. Ash himself is a very likable and well-developed character, who gets more mature as the series goes on and learns many things on his journey.
 * 7) The trainers sometimes use clever Pokémon battling strategies that also work in the game if fans want to try them.
 * 8) Very epic and iconic Pokémon battle scenes that get more intense as the series goes on. One of the most epic battles is Charizard vs Greninja in the Kalos League.
 * 9) Earned a countless collection of great and decent movies, most notably the first and second movies.
 * 10) Really great voice acting. Especially from the 4Kids dub as all the actors are well cast, and do put in a pretty great performance.
 * 11) Ash finally won the Pokémon League in the Alola region as of 2019 (not counting when he only once won the non-canon Orange Island league).
 * 12) Team Rocket are very enjoyable and hilarious villains during the first two seasons.
 * 13) Amazing running gags, such as Butch saying "It's Butch." after some of the characters saying Butch's name wrong.
 * 14) It reached its 1000th episode in 2018.
 * 15) The anime spawned over 20 different movies.
 * 16) The PokéRap that played at the end of some episodes in the first season is memorable and catchy.
 * 17) * Even the Pikachu's Jukebox Songs, the Pokémon Karaokémon and Team Rocket's Song from The Song of Jigglypuff are memorable and catchy as well

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The Unova era (S14-S15-S16) is considered the show's weakest era by fans due to the slow pacing, too many filler episodes and Ash being unlikable at times.
 * 2) The "Electric Soldier Porygon" incident that caused over 685 Japanese people to have epileptic seizures.
 * 3) * Because of this, Porygon and its evolutions have never made appearances in any other anime adaptation (excluding a few cameos).
 * 4) Some moments in the original Japanese version that some viewers may find to be cringe-worthy, such as James cross-dressing in a bikini with fake inflatable breasts in the episode "Holiday In Aopulco" ("Beauty and the Beach" in the English Dub), which the English dub removed. But sadly, it is considered a lost episode in America when it was aired on Kids' WB.
 * 5) The GS ball side-story was sadly never resolved.
 * 6) Beginning with the "Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon" special in 2006, 4Kids would no longer handle the English dubs, and as a result, the entire voice cast was changed, and the voices in the special, particularly Ash's, were very grating, even more so than the original, to the dismay of many fans. Ash got another voice actor for the following season, and the other voices were more refined.  Some of the 4Kids voice actors did return in later seasons, most notably the narrator and Team Rocket boss Giovanni's voice actors, though Ash and the other main characters retain their post-4Kids voices.  The newer voices, though not quite the same, are at least tolerable now.
 * 7) Meat references as well as references to real world locations have been largely eschewed in later seasons.
 * 8) Some of the designs for the human characters in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon (especially Ash's) did not age well.
 * 9) Ash's Pikachu's strength at times can be very inconsistent such as defeating a Regice, and tied with a Latios, yet has lost to a Snivy that has had no battling experiences.
 * 10) There are numerous errors in the animation.
 * 11) *Though, this can be because of OLM being a small studio compared to bigger studios such as Madhouse, Production I.G, and ufotable. Even Studio Deen was a bigger studio despite their animation being mediocre and very basic.
 * 12) The 4Kids English dub is flawed to the point that it can even give Funimation's post-2015 dubs a run for their money.
 * 13) *The dub renames the Japanese food, onigiri, to various names including "donuts" and "popcorn balls" which is ridiculous.
 * 14) To add to the previous pointer, there are other flaws outside of the dubbing. Not even Funimation in it's current state would do such a thing.
 * 15) *Some scenes were swapped around. For example, several of the attacks aren't performed in order in episode 95 of the Advanced Generation season.
 * 16) *Some scenes were removed completely, sometimes due to time constraints.
 * 17) *The infamous Trainer's choice segment that incorrectly says Arbok evolves into Seviper.
 * 18) The Pokérap/Pikachu's Jukebox/Pokémon Karaokémon segments in the 4Kids localization, although memorable and catchy, are filler.