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    Weekly Anime Discussion - You bet your ass there's spoilers

    I really dislike the fact that the writers are pushing Serena's crush on Ash so hard in the last few episodes. The writers abandoned this idea with Misty a decade ago when they realized giving Ash a love interest was a terrible idea, so why bring it back with a new character? Serena also feels...
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    Is Nintendo bringing new hardware to E3 2014?

    Its probably a redesign of the Wii-U dropping the gamepad, or another 3DS redesign. Remember the GBA's lifespan was cut short at only 4 years when the DS came out early in 2004. The DS wasn't originally intended to replace the GBA it was advertised as the "third pillar." Its only when the DS...
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    New Trailer For 17th Pokémon Movie

    To be honest the last Pokemon movie I enjoyed was the Darkrai one, which was Movie 10. After the first DP movie I don't think any of the others have been particularly good. At this point I can't even remember the rest of the DP and BW movies and I even watched them all.
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    Ask the Staff

    So after 17 years, what do you think keeps the anime running with roughly the same repetitive formula its had since Season 1? Obviously the people watching the pokemon anime today aren't the same people who were watching 17 years ago. Are you surprised the show was never rebooted? Lastly, and...
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    A little mystery about the starter Pokémon...

    In the anime we've seen starter pokemon in the wild countless times, so I'm not really sure why this is an issue. Personally I hate it when Ash gets all the starters outside of Kanto because they usually wind up being his worst teams. Would anyone deny that Ash's Johto team and Unova team were...
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    Pokemon Anime to begin airing on Netflix from 1st March

    I doubt I'll watch it on netflix as I've seen Kanto hundreds of times, but its nice for people. Heh, the only good season of Johto was the "Master Quest" season which is pretty much the only one worth revisiting. All early/mid Johto did was pretty much drown the show in 2 years of repetitive...
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    The Nintendo are DOOMED thread

    The Wii-U is probably going to have a short 4-year cycle. There are virtually no third party games for Wii-U in 2014 other than WatchDogs, Lego Games and indie games. No system can survive without third party support. Ubisoft was one of the last big publishers supporting the system and it looks...
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    Favourite Legendary?

    Hate to be generic, but it was always Mewtwo
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    Do you watch the Pokemon anime?

    Ash's female companions usually fall into two groups: 1. Tag along female Gym leader who acts superior to Ash and mocks him for his mistakes. While this was understandable when Misty did it because Ash really was a moron back in Kanto, after Ash became so skilled by the end of DP it was a...
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    Do you watch the Pokemon anime?

    This is all just early impressions though. Character dynamics in every saga are always more interesting in about the first 30 episodes than later on. After about 100 episodes I'm sure it'll degrade like every other characters personality. Also May probably had the best characterized personality...
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    Do you watch the Pokemon anime?

    You mean the current saga? It's basically an expie of Hoenn so far. Literally everything about it reminds me of the early Hoenn episodes: - Serena is a beginning trainer unsure of her goal and has no idea what to do (this is how May started out) - Bonnie is the little kid sibling (Max as a...
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    Weekly Anime Discussion - You bet your ass there's spoilers

    Is anyone actually watching XY? Or was everyone turned off from the anime after how horrible the Best Wishes season was? XY is very similar to the Hoenn arc in writing which means its mostly enjoyable. Returning to a 4-person group is probably the best thing about the show so far. As I said...
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    Weekly Anime Discussion - You bet your ass there's spoilers

    Let's just hope Serena actually gets a goal, rather than being "just there" like Iris or becoming as boring and unlikeable as Misty became during Johto. At least she's a game protagonist so it means they're probably going to do something important with her. The writers work better with the...
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    Weekly Anime Discussion - You bet your ass there's spoilers

    To be fair the very beginning of each saga always starts off impressive because it seems new and fresh. But after the first 30 or so episodes air the characters get a bit blander and the show goes into the usual filler grind. I remember when DP started people seemed to be a lot more impressed...
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    Weekly Anime Discussion - You bet your ass there's spoilers

    Yeah, DP didn't have so good characters, but the story/battles/rivals were the best the series had ever done. But between how boring and stale Brock was, and Dawn/Piplup not being all that interesting after the first 50 episodes or so, it made DP sort of difficult to watch outside of the...
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