On his 10th birthday, Ash starts his Pokémon journey with an unexpected Pikachu. He faces tough Gym battles but finds support in Brock, Misty, and new Pokémon companions Bulbasaur, Squirtle,... Read allOn his 10th birthday, Ash starts his Pokémon journey with an unexpected Pikachu. He faces tough Gym battles but finds support in Brock, Misty, and new Pokémon companions Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander.On his 10th birthday, Ash starts his Pokémon journey with an unexpected Pikachu. He faces tough Gym battles but finds support in Brock, Misty, and new Pokémon companions Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander.
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Sorry about that anyways, I'm more or less here to quickly say that XY to me is possibly the best Pokémon series of all time. Honestly we loyal Poke fans needed a more refreshing series after the disastrous and not very fun at all trainwreck that was Black & White and this series delivered on every level.
The characters are charming, Serena one of the finest Poke girls to come since I don't know, Dawn from D&P, Bonnie quite a funny characters that made me laugh my socks off and Clemont a really interesting character.
Not to mention Ash being the most confident he's ever been in the franchise.
Other characters are great with Professor Sycamore being my favourite Professor of all time and Alain one of my all time favourites and most of Ash's rivals were good too. (Did feel sorry for Trevor though, got knocked out of the league pretty early.) Team Flare are HANDS DOWN (and I do mean that) better here than in the games. Little old me felt their plan, their motivations were more developed and done better than in the games. Lysandre truly was a mastermind and he was pretty damn menacing to say the least.
The animation is truly brilliant with episodes like the battle against Olympia, Kalos League battle against Sawyer and the finale of the Team Flare arc some of the highlights.
And voice-acting from both English and Japanese sides were great (do have to admit, not too much of a fan of the dub's music though).
So overall, XY is probably hands down the best Pokémon series of all time.
There, I said it. Just don't throw tomatoes or broken TV's at me though because it's not gonna change my opinion.
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- TriviaAsh (Satoshi)'s starter Pokemon was going to be Clefairy (Pippi) but was swapped for Pikachu to make it appealing for boys and girls alike.
- GoofsIn one episode Brock's Geodude participates in an all-Fighting Pokemon tournament. A Geodude, however, is NOT fighting, it's rock/ground. In the original card series there was no rock or ground type, only fighting type to represent all three types.
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Jessie: Prepare for trouble.
James of Team Rocket: And make it double.
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation.
James of Team Rocket: To unite all people within our nation.
Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love.
James of Team Rocket: To extend our reach to the stars above.
Jessie: Jessie.
James of Team Rocket: James.
Jessie: Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light.
James of Team Rocket: Surrender now or prepare to fight.
Meowth: Meowth. That's right.
- Crazy creditsThe Pokemon logo makes one last appearance at the very end of the credits, after the Summit Media Group bumper.
- Alternate versionsThe 4Kids version included removing suggestive content and changing the fate of several characters, as well as editing the story to be much lighter and kid friendly in tone for the US release. The characters names were changed such as 'Satoshi' became 'Ash', 'Kasumi' became 'Misty' and 'Takeshi' was 'Brock', as well as changing almost all of the Pokémon's names to more 'American' names. Such edits as removal of written Japanese characters on various signs, billboards, etc. Cigar or anything that's a tobacco product, alcoholic like beverages, and any scenes that seem too violent. Ironically, however, the 4Kids version retained more of the Japanese original soundtrack than the TPCi version did overall. The TPCi version would also later in its run follow the same path as the 4Kids version, including censoring alcoholic beverages into orange juice cups by the Sun & Moon Series, removing glitter vomit, Meowth drowning, etc. And it would also censor Ash on a cross in the XYZ Series, as well as a mustache on a character appearing similar to Hitler in the Journeys Series, as well as souls into coffins.
- ConnectionsEdited into Neon Genesis Evangelion: ReDeath (2000)
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