Pokemon XY SP: Road to Kalos

Anniversary special, but it’s a clip show and commercial for the XY games and of course, XY anime.

As the episodes starts on a plane, right when the last episode of the previous series ended – so at least we do get a proper continuity, Satoshi dozes off and that’s the excuse to cue the clip show. Right after we get taunted by some nice high definition scenes with the better looking older animation, we get the classic song and dance of Satoshi going "Wow I've never seen those pokemons before!", and starters of the region are introduced.

Following are short clips of battles with alright choreography ... which I assume will be seen in following episodes in full rather then being created just for this special. And sure enough, checking through the first episode of XY here are bunch of the scenes and I suspect the rest will be there in rest of the episodes.

This means that rather than a classic recap, most of this special is “recapping” what is yet going to happen, making this just a longer tv ad that basically gives you a bit of spoilers. The only benefit is seeing those older clips, in better resolution than tvrips of the original run, but there are not even many of those clips here. And if you don’t care about that, completionism is the only reason to watch this. So really just start with the first episode of XY otherwise.