Recent content by Lizardo

It's not just the title. What sold me more on the idea of Satoshi winning was that Alan had already defeated him twice before, effectively setting him up as the rival to beat this series. Convention usually dictates that this means Satoshi wins the final battle, the one that counts, as he did...

**** it, there are other things out there to watch.

Amazing, even with all of the reason in the world to win and all the momentum behind him, Satoshi still somehow loses. For what? We don't even have the traditional League format next game, so why not send him out of Kalos with a win? I don't care about the Champion's League or a final battle...

The Harimaron episode in XY&Z36 is probably just setting up for Team Flare, since that particular arc starts right after the League. I’m assuming that Satoshi vs. Alan starts just at the end of that episode to start the battle in the next two. More importantly, with a title called “Satoshi’s...

For me, the issue is that even though Shota won the last battle with Satoshi it still doesn?t feel like he?s a real threat to him. Satoshi not only defeated Shota twice before, he swept him 3-0 both times. In return, Shota only has a 3-2 win against Satoshi when the latter character was...

I don’t see Alan as Takuto, for a number of reasons. The reason Satoshi vs. Takuto played out the way it did was because there was only one episode to knock Satoshi out of the Sinnoh League. Every other full battle (excepting the similarly one-sided Shinji vs. Shirona/Jindai) has two or...

I really don’t want to get my hopes up, but it’s getting harder and harder to see Satoshi losing this League. Satoshi getting to the finals, no League rival who only exists to knock Satoshi from the tournament, Satoshi having already fought (and lost to) Alan before… if nothing else, this will...

I’ll pass on that. Satoshi and Pikachu episodes always seem to follow some formula of “Pikachu gets hurt, controlled, etc. and Satoshi has to save him”, and I think we’ve had two of those in XY already. The Gekkouga stuff might be tiring (I’m already wary of how much “Satoshi-Gekkouga” we’ll...

Haruka’s final goodbye in AG, when she just kind of randomly announces that she’s splitting up from Satoshi and Takeshi, kind of says it all about where their personal relationship was at the end of that series. That’s not to say they weren’t clearly meant to be good friends who cared a good...

Shōta won’t beat Satoshi. He already got his victory in XY&Z026 and “caught up” to him there, and there’d be no point to that episode if the writers were going to have Satoshi lose again in the League. This is the battle where Satoshi redeems himself from that loss. Plus, he would still have...

It did happen with somebody else. In XY&Z006, Sanpei shows Satoshi and co. a painting of an old Gekkouga that looks somewhat like Satoshi-Gekkouga. At the end of XY&Z007, he and the other members of the village draw the connection between that painting and the brief glimpse they got of...

@weedle_mchairybug, this has happened before. The Zoroark movie premiered during the Sinnoh League and forced a break there. It’s no big deal. A new summary for XY&Z033 mentioned that the Shōta and Tierno fight is for a spot in the semifinals. If that’s true, this says a lot for Satoshi’s...

Really, it depends on which series I’m watching Satoshi in and how he’s written in it. I don’t need Satoshi to be a complex character or to be overly-bratty and silly (as in the earliest Kanto episodes). He’s never been the former, and I actually find the latter pretty irritating. Likewise...

Here’s what PokéFan has revealed about the Kalos League so far: In addition to Satoshi, the other major competitors are: Shōta, Tierno, Trova, Alan, Ayaka, and Louis. For anyone who doesn’t remember them, Ayaka and Louis both appeared in TSME Act I as opponents for Alan. Ayaka also appeared...

I wasn’t sure about Satoshi-Gekkouga at first (the design took some time to grow on me), but I like how the anime staff has been handling it. This is the first thing in years to actually give Satoshi some character development, and that’s made XY&Z more enjoyable to watch. One of my stated...