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Love is Hard for Liko Edition:
>Livestream link (Fridays @ 9:55 AM UTC):
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>Latest episode:
https://nyaa.si/view/2088566
Next episode:
>April 10th: PM2023 133 - Towards the Final Fight
https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/pocketmonster2023/episodes/
Future episodes:
>TBA
>Previous episodes:
https://pastebin.com/N5fves0y
>OS-JN filler guide:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nr3LMRBx-tJZtSwAbc4s4YTEgg6MVF nc
>Web series, specials, and audio dramas subs and links:
https://pastebin.com/gkJSXkbL
>Movies:
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>Music, manga, and more:
https://pastebin.com/gXfZtrrJ
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TQs for this thread, especially with the new episode coming out and the break coming to an end:
>Among the game characters, how do you like their anime portrayals compared to the games?
>If you were a Ditto, what would you do or how would you cause mischief?
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>Among the game characters, how do you like their anime portrayals compared to the games?
Those who had reoccuring appearances felt pretty good in how they expanded on a certain aspect of their characterization. Nemona being Roy's Senpai in the beginning, over her excitement and adaptability when seeing and battling Mega Evolution for the first and second time. Penny and Iono joining Dot in cyber-related hijinks while the latter goes out more. The singular appearances felt concise and on brand with the lifted quotes. Liko could bond with one of them on a more frequent basis though.
For the ditto one, I'd mimic Pecharunt.
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Game Hikki
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Freaks.
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Have gone through the archives during the break and there are some odd one pictures I've stumbled over.
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The superior str*ight Liko ship
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How did they messed it up?
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>>59145999
I literally don't give a fuck about competitive so I'm glad everything went wrong
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Based!
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>>59146466
She may not battle a lot but I choose Liko because she is cute and makes interesting faces and she's a cool character. I can't say the same about Roy but that's my and many others opinion hahaha
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The new /vp/ anime
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Anne x Amethio soon
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I've posted here before, 40 yo boomer who's gone back to resume watching where I left off in childhood. Summary so far:
- I finished the Orange Islands which was super comfy.
- Watched all of Johto. Started off nice, nice to have the og team back together, but yeah the episodes really started to drag towards the end. And enouctered the first instance of jarring change - the drawing style. Something changed suddenly in the Larvitar arc, the faces were never the same again nor was the color palette (e.g. Jessie's hair). On the plus side Team Rocket were hilarious, peak puns.
- Advance more jarring - Misty suddenly being written off at the end of Johto. New group dynamic with May and Max. Ash being an insufferable asshole and the last couple of gym badges. I missed Misty, her two cameos were ncie though. But I kept going. Tbh with a brief couple of exceptions, it continued in the vein of end stage Johto, really boring and tiresome. The Hoenn League was underwhelming, felt like the battles were completely random. Was thinking of calling it quits after that but I decided to at least finish all of Advance by watching the Battle Frontier too. R/S/E was my last game, so I should at least catch up to that in the anime.
- Advance Battle frontier - seems ok at the start, arguably more lively and exciting than the first part of Advance. BUT...
...I just got to ep 146 and it's the most jarring thing of all. The actor voices are completely different! I paused, I couldn't go on, I didn't like it at all. Googled it, and yep, apparently that's the exact point 4kids was booted and TPC started doing the dub internally. Apparently it caused quite a stir on the internet and amongst the famdom back in 2006. Esp because the og actors weren't even allowed to audition to get their jobs back.
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Like I said I was planning to get to the end of BF, but it's so painful to hear these new voices, I'm wondering if I should just abandon it here. This makes me sadder than even the Misty character leaving. This is like in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers when Jason Zack and Trini's actors left (because Haim Saban was exploiting them and they all decided to leave together but at the last minute the other 3 actors stabbed the first 3 in the back and satyed on, enabling Saban to hastily replace them with Rocky Adam and Aisha and shoddily smoothing it over with production using old footage of the first 3 to create a mini arc where they transferred their powers to the new guys and Tommy becomes leader. Is BF so good that it could override my negative feelings about the voice changes? I know it was 20 fucking years ago and I wasn't even 'there' for it, and I should probably just get over it...but I feel sad :(
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>>59149131
I hate how bad Misty look in the new SM artstyle, even Pokespe Misty looks better than her.
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With Brock and Misty, he had two older, reponsible, sensible friends at his side, keeping him in check and keeping a lid on his worst instincts. He was the baby, and they protected him from himself.
But then Misty disappeared and timid inexperienced May and ultra babby Max came along. Instead of growing into the same role Misty had with him, becoming a mentor to them and acting more mature, he acted like a spoilt brat, frequently yelling at the newcomers. Brock should have stepped in more to fill the Misty gap and keep Ash in line, but he shirked and faded into background cuckdom as Ash bullied the younger two.
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The first language you watch something in imprints on you, it's hard to switch. One of my very first animes, Cowboy Bebop, I watched dubbed. I tried watching sub later, couldn't do it, just felt wrong. I also watched GitS SAC (my first GitS, even before the og movies) dubbed, and laster couldn't watch the sub. Apart from those two and Pokemon, I watched all other anime sub, and any dub clips just sound horrible and wrong.
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She looks too babby-ish there though, looks like a tuber.
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I started watching Pokemon dubbed, I have nostalgia for Veronica Taylor Ash. I still watched all of Pokemon BW onwards subbed, and I still watch Horizons subbed to this day. You get used to it.
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You don't have interest in watching Horizons?
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I do. I have watched it, and I like it. But it's a completely separate anime to me.
I've been watching the dub so the last arc I saw was where Fried and Charizard fell and disappeared, then a brief preview of a timeskip. I see that the new arc came out in dub in January, just haven't gotten around to it yet, will do when I have some more time. (DON'T SPOILER ME BRO)
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>I've been watching the dub
Why? Why not watch the sub when you say you watch subs most of the time anyway? It's not like you have any attachment to the new cast or their voices: it's a clean state, so nostalgia is not an issue that prevents you from watching the sub.
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>>59145999
Honestly impressive how there was a template for it in the form of a browser app and two console titles for decades and they still fucked it up.
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The very idea of Amethio and Roy mega evolving Zygarde and Rayquaza fill me with nothing but rage.
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Believe in DotLiko.
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>Yellow mane and light blue colored body like Clemont's Blonde hair and light blue tracksuit.
> A Electric type with Mega Evolution.
Can somebody give me one reason why the anime picked Luxray over Manectric for Clemont?
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>>59153237
What if the core isfake Kyurem?
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Right now I'm focusing on Advance. But that's a good idea, it's the perfect moment to switch to subbed now. I finished the rest of the episode (the first with the new voice actors), to see if I could get over it. I got through the episode, but I just don't like it. Part of it was more the cadence and the acting chops of the new actors, doubtless it would have taken them some time to get into the groove, a lot of the delivery was bad in this episode not just in terms of vocal timbre, but in cadence, tone, volume. So yes while I'm sure they got better over time, now is the perfect moment for me (20 years in the future) to try watching the sub.
I like the Horizons dub, so I'll stick to that when I find the time to binge the latest available arc.
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My lord.
My god.
My SAVIOR SPINEL!
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Does anyone here know what Spinel is saying or knows if there's an English version of this?
https://x.com/anipoke_PR/status/2042422319205978218
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Pagogo should skin him alive.
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https://nl.utako.moe/TV_Tokyo/tracks-v1a1/mono.m3u8
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Rhydon rocks.
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Punch Uruto.
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Pecharuntbros, rejoice.
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Most Gods are.
>>59155821
I wish Tapu Lele would abduct me.
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They walk right into the Lion's den.
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Metaphorical approach of their graves.
>All of them get destiny bonded
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Lucky bastards drowning in coins.
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No way.
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Ok, who the hell snitched?
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>Mov3 is potentially gone
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
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>April 17th: PM2023 134 - The Ultimate Showdown! Mega Evolution!!
>Roy, Uruto and Friede duel against Sango, Onyx and Agate! But during this fierce see-saw battle of Mega Evolved Pokémon, Roy spots the key to victory! What is it?! Meanwhile, Liko and the others meet up with Amethio before finally reaching the central parts of Rakua... where they spot...?!
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Something really bad is gonna happen to all parties involved, it won't end pretty.
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He's fucking in
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bros are they going to die?
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>The closest thing to Shadow Pokemon from Orre is the Rakurium.
>The closest thing to Mystery Dungeon bosses (Seemingly) is the Rakurium reshaping into an entity.
Anything else from the other spin-offs that makes the trio complete?
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Maybe they throw in something from Ranger
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Sorry anons I didn't play the Ranger games but I'm very aware that they are one of the biggest spin offs
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Right? I like her funny faces
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As a dub-watcher, I can say that Bill Rogers' Brock eventually grew on me. He's easily the best of the recasted VA's, and while this is a character you haven't met yet, I also really liked Dawn's. Now, I'd like to tell you that things'll turn around big time, that after dozens or hundreds of episodes of dubbing Pokemon, TPCi will eventually manage to build a solid foundation of its own to stand on, but I'd be lying. TPCi's dub is produced cheap, quickly, and without much care. It's stuck a constant cycle of improvements and walk-backs. It never manages to just be good, there's always some sort of asterisk, and sometimes, that asterisk's really big. Even when Lisa Ortiz (a 4kids alumni) got brought in to direct the dub towards the end of XY onwards, her directing still wasn't enough to save the majority of performances.
If you tough it out, the dub will eventually become serviceable, but it'll never hit 4kids' highs, and its lows sound far more annoying. The narrator and Giovanni eventually get their OG VAs back, and Rachel Lillis randomly pops up in Diamond and Pearl to play Maylene, but other than that, the old cast is gone.
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>Cap becomes a human
>replaces both Friede and Roy
>Friede, Roy and Dot get locked and forgotten in the OLM basement
>Amethio gets promoted as a main character
>the plot becomes a never ending love triangle between Cap, Amethio and Liko with Pokémon elements sprinkled in
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>MegaFug, MegaZygarde, and teraTurtle combined all of their powers to evaporate the DrugCore through the wishes of the Gang.
>the Heroes and the Legendaries evaporates, Turtle left behind their Jewel shell.
>Another timeskip for the new Anime/Arc to tie over until WiWa release.
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