Pokémon: Twilight Wings

Pokemon shorts that seems to be canon to the main series. This involves all the new Galar based characters. Hence no Ash nor Pikachu in these shorts. All the voice casts were original and same as potrayed in Pokemon journey. Some new characters with their first appearances, meanwhile few new characters had already appeared on the main series.

Great animation quality. Scores were okay. Lack in action and battles, focuses more in characters introduction. Hence, its a promotional short for the Pokemon Sword & Pokemon Shield games. Slightly dark tone setup, almost resembles movie level. Highly recommended.

This callls it "Valerian Star Tournament", while the core anime refers to its own league by some other title, but who cares in the end, it's the same thing.

And without this miniseries we'd have again no connection to the weight of the championship, so it's canon is though a bit flimsy, it's perfectly acceptable, because it is needed to give the necessary weight to the core anime.

The first seven episode culminates in a certain poke-battle, nothing specific with its own value, but it still builds character for Leon adequately, so it's actualy good storytelling, even with some weaker/filler episodes, to give him - and the others - to create the World Cup League.

As usual, this spinoff/sideshow is better than the core, and rly not that long.