Gotcha!

This is the greatest piece of animation ever constructed by human beings. It must be known that I am only guessing that human beings made this, because the nature of this video is so other-worldly amazing that it is not out of the question for it to have been made by celestial deities on a higher plane of existence. And also Bump of Chicken.

After merely two minutes and change, your eyes will be shitting out pieces of your brain. Your life will be forever changed and you'll temporarily forget the collapse of civilization occurring outside of your place of residence, because this video is ... good enough to change humanity. The human eye can see a million colors, but this animation has several trillion. It exceeds the limitations of the third dimension and stretches beyond infinity. It is all-consuming and limitless. It is universe-defining.

From the first sparkling notes to the ending chant of GOTCHA!, love from all sources penetrate your eyes, ears, heart, soul, red, blue, dick and cum simultaneously. Starting with four boys walking on railroad tracks and ending with two original characters passing by billboards of post-game bosses through each generation, GOATCHA! is a death blossom of nostalgia that will bring even the most hardened of cynical fans to their knees. Not a single split-second is spared in shoving in every personable animation possible. Whether it's a silent protagonist, a charismatic rival, an iconic Champion, an intimidating Gym Leader, or Diantha, each face in the lightning-fast carousel of callbacks is given a brilliant moment to shine; one more grain of Stardust in the bag. GOTCHA! leaves nothing behind and never forgets. The limits of time mean nothing.

Included in the tornado of nostalgia are strikingly well-designed original characters who traverse various locations, allowing the animator gods to deliver more scenes in dazzlingly clever ways, with the perspective often changing to connect the pieces together. Many flashbacks of intense, memorable Pokemon battles are played directly in their respective locations in between the journey of the two adventurers, who pass by legends casting shadows over cities and video screens continuing the montage. GOTCHA! is not just an orgasmic celebration of the series, it's a journey forward. A new adventure with new characters. They, too, have been injected with an abundance of charm and likability.

Art exists to enrich the lives of others. GOTCHA! is the reason why art exists. When art was invented in My Hero Academia by Walt Disney in 1690, his exact words were "I have created art because one day a Pokemon music video will be created and it will make Mozilla Fennekin shit his fucking pants." On September 29, 2020, art officially peaked. Nothing better has ever existed before, and nothing greater will exist ever again. We are free from the pressures of success and achievements. GOTCHA! has saved us all by being everything that we are not. Perfect.

Also, the music was good.

It would seem that to properly enjoy Gotcha!, some degree of nostalgic feeling towards Pokemon is required. Which, to be fair, is not exactly unexpected.

Should you be one of those that didn’t really get around to playing or watching Pokemon in their childhood (which somehow seems to be a minority group), this music video isn’t going to have the intended effect on you. After all, it consists mainly of short flashes of various characters from the Pokemon franchise, and you won’t even recognize a lot of those – even more as some of them are characters only from the games, not from the anime ... adaptations.

The animation is the best part – such quick-paced storyboard requires fluid animation to not look like a flipbook, and this requirement was fully filled. I also like how it has a sort of nostalgia filter that made parts of the video look more old-school, fitting with the theme. The song wasn’t really my cup of tea, I’ve heard better ones by Bump of Chicken.

In terms of story, there is no story – as mentioned previously this is practically a compilation of very short character clips tied together through protagonists of the games. So yeah, if this was your childhood then “Wow 10/10!”, if it wasn’t then not so much.

Dull, pointless and emotionless. Meaningless nostalgia bait at it's finest.

Clean art and fluid animation but because it's completely directionless and extremely poorly stitched together it completely fails to achieve anything at all. The use of filters doesn't do it any favours either.

Repetitive and dull music, not an ounce of creativity to be found, it feels like something you've heard 1,000 times before. I suppose that might be an achievement, although not a particularly positive one.

I fail to see any value in this what so ever. It's atrocious and fails as an animated music video on every front. Just goes to show how far cheap nostalgia ... bait will get you, especially when tied to a franchise as big as Pokemon.