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Is there a "guide to the Pokémon Anime"? (pawb.social)
submitted 10 months ago by VinesNFluff@pawb.social to c/pokemon@lemmy.ml
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Specifically - A list of episodes that actually matter, because there are over one thousand episodes in the Pokémon Anime, and most of those are a fat load of nothing. -- I've been wanting to watch the Anime (like, beyond the first two seasons I'm nostalgic for), but I don't wanna slog through 740 episodes of nothing for the 260-ish episodes where something (I.E.: A major character appearance, a gym battle, a new pokémon caught, etc) actually happens.

I did a google search and found an "Anime Filler List", but that one was concerned with marking episodes as 'manga canon', which is like... Isn't the Pokémon manga a completely separate thing? Plus, I intensely doubt all those episodes are actually relevant.

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[-] pikasaurX4@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

I remember seeing this list that reddit user u/MarcoR_ made a while back: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K5DCKrbU4V345UMJwI89IHHTn7g-o9hEF3QsmOEKcxY/htmlview

Not sure how up to date it is but it looks like it has the latest series too. I haven’t used it myself, but a friend of mine used it to blow through the Indigo League so maybe it will help you

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 12 points 10 months ago

Oh that's pretty much what I wanted.

Plus, the up-to-dateness doesn't really matter to me, I just want to finish Ash's journey(s) for nostalgia's sake, now that I know that he finally actually won a pokémon league tournament some years back.

[-] pikasaurX4@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

A lot of the anime is pretty bad, and I say that as a diehard fan. But starting with XY they really put it in gear and started making a real anime that’s worth watching instead of an awkwardly paced cartoon. If you are looking to save time, I’d just start there, but when you watch Journeys, it’s really more enjoyable the more you’ve watched the older series (guest appearances and whatnot)

[-] shinnoodles@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

It's extremely ironic that the anime started to pick up when the games started to fall off.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago

No no, that sounds about right.

As a big fan of Digimon, the competitor that never was? The best seasons of the Anime happened when Bandai realised that Digimon as a games franchise was not a fetch that was going to happen and just let the writers do whatever. Whenever Digimon got a bit of attention on its game/toy related properties, the executives would come back to fuck with the stories and the anime would get worse.

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