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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

Alright, I'm going to be honest. Pokemon Best Wishes came out greater then I expected it to be. I had low expectations at first, but seeing the first two episodes already changed my mind.

Best Wishes wasn't really off to a great start with it's first episode. The plot was used before and kind of getting bland or at least in my opinion. Pikachu seemed to be demoted to a level 5 or less yet again, and like all generic animes, we have a cruel-hearted rival. The second episode changed my mind.

Best Wishes seems to try to re-create Pokemon as a brand new type of anime. We're given a storyline that follows the first generation (2nd episode being the first). I thought they did an impressive job and I'm not going to elaborate on that since it does spoil the second episode.

I like the new background music. There's a feel of excitement during the battles, and a feeling of new when listening to the preview theme too. There's new battle BGMs which is impressively enjoyable to listen to.

A lot of graphics are changed for the better with a lot more 3-D aspect as well. I'm really liking these animation changes compared to Diamond and Pearl.

Characters... Right now, only Iris is introduced. I find her voice to be quite irritating, but she seems to be the right friend for Ash because of what I previously stated Best Wishes seems to be trying to do.

Overall, I'll be biased on this, I love Pokemon. I rewatched both episodes Raw and subbed close to 20 times already. read more