Chit-Chat: The Anime Chat Café

[Sun25]

I think Rotomdex are cool:-)

 

[Kostas]

Btw, a new opening theme will appear in June 15.

 

[jjc927]

For the original or the dub?

 

[Frozocrone]

For the original or the dub?

Japanese version.

 

[Hikamaru]

For the original or the dub?

He meant the Japanese, since the dub only changes opening on a yearly basis.

 

[CidHazard]

He meant the Japanese, since the dub only changes opening on a yearly basis.

I thought it was a per series basis :D

XY and XY&Z dub only had one OP a piece

While the original had 3 variations of the Volt! and Mega Volt! with a couple of variations with Mad Paced Getter.

 

[Hikamaru]

https://twitter.com/animator1965/status/877672697425047552

Looks like Motherbeast Lusamine and Lillie's "Z-Powered Form" outfit change will be coming to the anime. Now I gotta hope they don't screw that up with more cringe faces.

 

[Kostas]

Is this confirmed to be real? I don't believe it's real tbh, guess we will have to wait and see.

 

[Iceshadow3317]

Is this confirmed to be real? I don't believe it's real tbh, guess we will have to wait and see.

According to some of the tweets it is real because it is someone named Iwane's Twitter. I don't know who Iwane is, but looking at it, it looks real.

I can't see anything debunking it to be fake right now other than maybe just extremely early. Although we are finally going to the second island, I would say that will be a while.

3 seasons is what I am expecting since the Switch Game isn't supposed to come out till 2019. That is about the right amount of time for 3 seasons.

Next season might be the start of the Skull arc and then maybe last season is the Aether Arc.

 

[Hikamaru]

https://twitter.com/cvxfreak/status/883015372550676480

It appears that Brock and Misty, along with all of Ash's other companions from OS-XY, will be appearing in the movie but only as a cameo during the end credits. What a way to let these iconic characters go to waste, and that is reduce them to the most minor role possible.

 

[jjc927]

It would be nice to see something one of the producers, writers, whoever said about why they created new characters besides Ash and Team Rocket instead of using the originals. I just don't get it, other than they didn't want the movie to be a total rehash of season 1. At least they show Ash's companions at the end in the credit to acknowledge the show's history, but still it's just weird that a movie to celebrate the franchise's 20th anniversary and the show's beginnings is barely true to the story.

 

[jjc927]

There's an article about the new movie replacing Brock and Misty on MSN- http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/pok%C3%A9mon-is-erasing-these-two-characters-in-their-upcoming-movie-we-can%E2%80%99t-believe-it/ar-BBEaDoH?li=AAfq3b1&ocid=spartandhp. No information other than the tweet with the character listing we've already seen though.

 

[alisaie]

If they wanted to completely just rehash the first few episodes than that's what they would do as a special. I can understand why they wouldn't want to do that for a full on movie. I'd like to see the actual movie before criticizing their choices. And a cameo with everyone who was important and helped Ash along his journey sounds better than trying to shove them into the movie somehow. Nothing good can come out of that.

 

[Hikamaru]

Another new piece of stuff relating to M20 is the director Kunihiko Yuyama being interviewed for a magazine about why the movie is what it turned out to be:

Spoiler:

- Why did the script end up being about the encounter of Ash and Pikachu?

Since "Sun&Moon" [anime] is now being broadcasted on TV, we had plans of making the "Sun&Moon" movie and also discussing about the inclusion of a 20th anniversary all-star [cast] gathering idea.

However, each movie production has its own different style, I felt there was something slightly wrong about that draft then returned to the starting point, reflecting on what "Pokemon" is all about.

So, it is the encounter between Ash and Pikachu that it is the origin of "Pokemon". Due to the fact that 20 years have passed and some people don't know this beginning, we changed the plan to "let's draw one more time the encounter of Ash and Pikachu, from the start".


- The scenes when Ash is puzzled about handling Pikachu were freshly projected [on the big screen].

As long as it is the anime series, Ash will inevitably become the hero; therefore for this movie, I wanted him back as a typical 10-year-old boy that becomes frustrated and carelessly say abusive stuff when losing a battle. This movie portrays a weaker Ash but, on the other hand, also show lengths that exceed the line that Satoshi and Pikachu could not cross until now. I would like the viewers to pay attention to this.

So there you go, it was initially planned to be an all-star cast (aka all the previous companions supposedly meeting up with the SM group) but unfortunately a case of Executive Meddling changing it to a retelling of Ash's story so that the newest generation of kids watching get to know how Ash and Pikachu met. That's why they have left us with the mess that everyone is salty about. They only cared about the target demographic when making this movie.

 

[Frozocrone]

It would have been a bigger mess to have all the characters and the all star Pokemon of each human.

I'm not surprised the idea was brought up but ultimately put aside in favour of M20s premise.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

So there you go, it was initially planned to be an all-star cast (aka all the previous companions supposedly meeting up with the SM group) but unfortunately a case of Executive Meddling changing it to a retelling of Ash's story so that the newest generation of kids watching get to know how Ash and Pikachu met. That's why they have left us with the mess that everyone is salty about. They only cared about the target demographic when making this movie.

And this is a problem how? A couple of my Disquis friends and I were just commenting about how the anime fanbase is being too salty about this news because we understand the need for target demographics.

 

[jjc927]

I don't think it would've been good to do an all-star cast for the movie. There's no way they could properly fit everybody in so it makes sense and they get at least somewhat equal screentimes and roles.

Quick programming note for the dub- This Saturday's new episode on Disney XD is airing at 8:30am eastern rather than 9. It will be on again at 9 next Saturday though.

 

[Hikamaru]

Another note for those watching Sun & Moon on Disney XD. There will be a break week on August 12th due to a marathon of the new DuckTales series. SM026 will be airing the week before that, on the 5th.

 

[Frozocrone]

Blam. Blam. Blam. Blam.

These are Japanese spoilers for those that only watch the English dub.

Spoiler:

I can't be bothered to post them in the relevant episode threads :)

 

[Kostas]

Spoiler:

Very interesting. Maybe Kiawe is going to catch this Marowak? I would be very happy with this. Also, is this Olivia's Probopass? I wonder if we'll see an evolution of Rowlet/Rockruff on this battle