Ranked #2013

Pokemon Best Wishes!

You know, Best Wishes is a huge surprise.
After religiously watching Pokemon up until Misty left, I had sworn the series had gone downhill.
I'd gone from watching every single episode, to watching the occasional one whenever I was flipping through the channels on TV.

Because I'm really excited for Black and White, I decided I'd start watching Best Wishes, and I have to say, It was WAAAAAAAAAAAY better than I expected.
The characters are lovable, the new pokemon are great, and the setting is new, yet nostalgic.

The Art and Music are AMAZING. I reallly love the visuals and the sound. For example, the episode with Darmanitan and the clock tower was really pretty.

There also seems to be more of a story this time around, but it mainly revolves around the shady activity of Team Rocket.
My only real complaint is that the lovable Team Rocket seems to be absent. SOMETHING happened to them, and they aren't as fun anymore.
They havent "blasted off" once in the entire series so far (I'm up to episode 12), and there have been little to no jokes between them.
They're acting like serious bad guys, which is good and bad.


Anyway, I highly suggest it ^_^ read more

First I will start off by saying that Best Wishes was way better than I expected it to be. Its still not as good as the original anime series but its a big improvement from the horrible Sinnoh anime.

Now I've never really been the biggest fan of the anime I stopped watching when Misty and Brock left and watched a little bit of the Diamond and Pearl anime which I couldn't stand. The Hoenn anime is still a mystery to me. I always preferred the games and manga over the anime. I thought the characters had a lot more personality in them (well not in the games as the main character doesn't speak.)
I wish that they would just kick off Ash Ketchum as he is never going to become a Pokemon master is he. In the next region I hope they have new characters but I know that's never going to happen.

So anyway let's get back to the review. I think that the art and sound are great as its always been. I've always loved the music in Pokemon so there is nothing really to say there.

Now I really don't have a problem with any of the characters apart from Ash but I've explained all of that above. My favourite character would have to be Cilan closely followed by Iris. I love their personalities.

I think Team Rocket are better in this anime as well as they seem to be a lot more serious like real villains but sometimes I just wish they would crack a lame joke like they used to in the original anime, but I really don't care if they don't it would just be fun to see.

So overall I like this series. It still has a long way to go but it is a lot better than the previous anime. I would recommend old fans of the anime to watch this. You might be surprised. read more