Do You Think Pokemon Anime Isn't As Good As It Use To Be?

[AnimeDDR110]

I for one think the anime is doing very poorly, ever since the battle frontier anime, and since they got rid of all the great actors & actresses. The Kanto, Sevii Islands, And Johto Region were great! Hoenn wasn't as good as i wanted it to be, and from there on it han't been on course.

 

[Crystal Clair]

I think the anime is better than it's been in a long time, rivaling Kanto or even beating it
Since I dont watch the dub of DP, I'm not affected by the voice changes.... well unless you mean adjusting to the Japanese seiyuu but that was easy.

This post has a lot of spoilers.... and I cant find the spoiler tag on the quick reply box so uh.... be warned





We've got so many new things in the anime -
Reoccuring characters
rivals
Greggle
Brock the breeder finally HAS AN EGG
Shinji
interesting gym leaders
awesome fillers - a cosplay ep, a dream ep and so many more
the animation is beautiful and clear. this series has actually gotten me into the whole digital color thing
MukuBIRD
the Pokemons' personalities
the unpredictability!!!! seriously this new season has unexpected surprises around every turn like Dawn getting Buoysel and Shinji having two starter Pokemon. Now I just wish the fandom would get over these things and then all will be well.
We've had some problems this season like episodes with bad animation and the lack of Team Galaxy (and the Shinji haitus) but when you look at the improvements, the bad stuff seems so little

no offense but I just think a lot of people here are sounding like Kanto/Johto/Houen elitists. Because DP flat out beats Houen in quality and also beats Johto, Orange Islands and maybe even Kanto.
So what if you dont like PUSA, just watch the raw. And if you dont know what's going on, just try to figure it out yourself. I dont know that much Japanese and I'm perfectly ok with watching the raws.


Sorry about that... I'm just sick of people daying DP is bad when it's not

 

[AnimeDDR110]

d/p isn't bad at all. i just dont like that anime and the battle frontier anime. the video game is a work of art. everything else, i can't say the same.

 

[MewthreeXL]

Diamond and Pearl is good because it replaced one cute girl with another.

 

[Kitty!]

Well AG was my favorite of the seasons. It finally introduced a girl who was able to have her own storyline and rivals and all. And plus, May is my favorite character, so AG was my favorite.

I'm not feeling what everybody is feeling for DP. I personally think it's pretty boring. Dawn's contests aren't as entertaining as May's, and her rivals aren't that interesting. I do like Zoey, it's just, her personality gets killed by Harley.

I loved the first few seasons. Misty was awesome. I loved her. I loved when Ash was a dumbass back then, and we had Misty getting pissed every minute. And the episodes were original. But people seem to overrate it. It's not THAT amazing.

But yeah. NOW I think the anime isn't as good as it use to be, since I just can't seem to like DP that much. But AG rocked for me. But once it got to DP, I started losing interest.

 

[Pocky]

The Kanto series is the best. Ash seemed to be more clumsy and funny, now he's just too serious. Plus, I hate how Ash gets a new set of pokemon in each country. The only pokemon he keeps is his Pikachu. (which should have evolved by now to keep people interested)

 

[Astinus]

I know that I watch the anime less. Sure, I tape the episodes since they play when I'm in work, but when I come home, I can't be bothered to watch them. The Pokemon anime isn't that much of a big deal in my life. I'm still in the fandom, but I just don't watch the anime.

One of the reasons might be because I grew up and the anime storyline didn't. I want more character development, not sitting there thinking good ol' Team Rocket is a major threat.

I do agree with Crystal Clair that the D/P anime is refreshing from the formula writing of AG and BF. I was surprised at a few twists to the plot, most of which are spoilers. :0

The voice actors change never bothered me. It took a while to get used to Meowth's new voice, but it wasn't something I would lose sleep over.

 

[AnimeDDR110]

well first of all:

the new voices got me to stop watch the anime. i will watch if they put misty back in. just so i can here what her new voice is like. ash's voice is not argulable. it makes him soound more mature and older, which he should be by the now. the other voices are just blah.

the anime story line is bad. i would just like it to be per episode that its not about just one pokemon. i would just like it to be a battle or a challenge. i liked the olderstory lines, even though they are similar.

i agree with everything Haruka Chan said. may was a funny and cute character, the only thing that would of been good is hert and drew kissed.

So, does anyone else agree with me in all of this?

 

[Gatocamera]

THE MANGA IZ BETTER THAN THE ANIME

 

[Miss Reyna]

I don't really mind much the voices. I say that a lot of characters have much more better voices then they did when 4Kids had the dub. I do love the new James voice. He finally sounds like a bad guy. Teeheehee

Well when you think about it. It has been like that since the beginning of the animes. The whole 'pokemon of the day' thing or what you call the episode being about just one pokemon. Your fave saga was basically a whole one of those episodes. Like one episode was about magcargo and then there was one about hitmontop. Still I do like how they make a focus on the pokemon and how they intertine them into the episodes.

I just like to look at each episode as a fresh new look. The show may have not change much as in story line but I do enjoy watching each episode wondering what will happen. I mean so it may be the same plot and thing but what makes it so fresh that there are some episodes that just are amazing like the episode where Jay appeared in. Those kind of episodes just make watching the anime worth it.

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

I still like it the way it is as of now. I never lost interest of it as well. I love when Brock starts flirting with a girl and then Croagunk will come out of its ball and poison jab it


:t354:TG

 

[Jorah]

Its better than it used to be. I think Johto Journeys/Johto League Champions was the worst. There were too many fillers I think that were just the same thing. There were some interesting episodes but a lot of them are just meh. I completly went out of Pokemon at Johto so I think it was at its worst then. Its improved since then I think.

 

[Rivvon]

I really think that it hasn't gotten better. It doesn't have the same humor that the original two seasons had.

 

[SatoshiLuver]

Meh its okay now. i dont watch the ****ty english version though. on the last ep of pokemon. and they're the VAs. im not gonna be able to take it seriously. theyre gonna ruin the moment. thats y im strictly anything japanese for the DP saga. i have diamond in jap too cuz the DP dub names suck. but anyways. anime's animation value sorta went down. they dont move as well and their drawings of the characters rnt as great. i liked Johto and Kanto best.

 

[Dymin]

Yeah whatever happened to the original voice actors? The new ones sound so akward, I thought they did it to make them sound more mature but the old voices were better!

 

[Lo-chan]

Kanto and Jhoto were much better in my opinion =/ I don't watch Pokemon anymore cause it just got old. It seems like the show the same thing over and over again. Its sort of easy to predict whats going to happen next now... Jhoto wasn't that great, but its better then Diamond/Pearl and Hoen.. -_- I miss the old Pokemon anime D= Much better ^^

 

[Aegis]

I don't care for D/P all that much. Every now and then I'll come across an episode that interests me (mostly concerning Dawn, or a contest), but for the main part I think it's gone a little down hill.

In Kanto and Johto Ash was all immature and head-strong, but in D/P (and AG too) he became this wise-like trainer guy. Meh, it just wasn't the same to me. I liked it better when they got themselves into things by stuff Ash said and all, not by choice. The story lines are also getting a little old, just a little repetitive from the ones before. And my final peeve is the animation. Now, the animation itself is good, but just at certain times Ash seems a little stiff. I know that isn't major, but it does annoy me a little. And then theres the voices, but I try to watch it in SUB's anyway, so I can't hold that against them.

Don't get me wrong, I still really like the anime, I just think it's gone downhill some. :3

 

[RYOUKI]

I still watch the Anime even though many people thinks every episode is just the repeatition of all the Episodes :\
I don't think the Anime has lost it's magic touch,
though for me...the Anime will always be the best!

 

[Spinda]

I'm a very critzy Pokemon Anime fan, I especially dislike Advanced Challenge, especially the fateful 'What you seed is what you get' episode.

Master Quest was pure awesome. I loved the Lugia episode 2 parter and the Red Garydos episode. Every minute was well worth watching, it was just generally more exciting. I'm glad they're showing it again.

Frontier was OK. They tried to make it exciting. But the Deoxy Crisis and Pokelantis episodes were bad. They were a little more active than they were in advanced battle.

I watched the first 2 episodes of diamond and pearl, and I loved it. I wasn't too happy at the fact that Dawn is a Co-ordinator, but I like her anyway.

 

[The Infinite Devil Machine]

I'm sick of the D/P bashing. The Kanto seasons weren't really that amazing, people! My favorite region was Johto quickly followed by Sinnoh, so far. Season 1 didn't have contests to fill out the series, so we were swamped in(sometimes unpleasent) fillers. Johto seasons didn't have contests either, but it had enough plot based episodes that they didn't need to fill it out.