Sep 27, 2014
Here's my approach to kid's anime - choose a flavor and enjoy it.
Sure, there's some truly fantastic series being made sometimes, but a lot of things are just average. There's nothing wrong with average. Depending on your point of view, Average can be Above Average, or Below Average, or really awesome, or total crap.
When it comes to Pokemon, you don't want to watch all of it. It's been on for 15 years, it's never going to stop. So pick your favorite Generation, and watch that.
I picked "Best Wishes" because I loved the Black/White games. Plus, this series is modern, it uses digital
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ink, and is available in widescreen.
Story: One refreshing aspect of this season was the change for Team Rocket, they used to appear in every episode, but this season they're only used half the time. Jesse and James also get serious, they spend most of the beginning of the season succeeding in their schemes. Something else I noticed, every 12 episodes, we get a two-parter, a cool change of pace to show us that thing are not easy enough to resolve using one episode.
Sadly, Team Plasma do not appear until the end of this generation.
Characters: Ash's traveling companions, this time it's Iris and Cilan. I can predict that we will never see someone stick around like Brock did for Four Generations. I'm guessing the writers got tired of making the same gag over and over again, so now every traveling companion will be limited to each region, with only cameos every now and then.
Cilan takes Brock's role as "older brother" to Ash, and playing the man in the apron. Cilan's tick of comparing everything to food can get pretty grating sometimes. They also do a bit more with the fact that he is a gym leader and an expert on pokemon. They even add a rival for him named Burgundy, it's refreshing to see a character actually completely outclass their rival for once.
Iris is Ash's second companion, a Dragon Trainer, and a different take on the Tsundere Girl. Iris spent a lot of time by herself in the mountains, so it made her more bold, blunt, and energetic than an ordinary girl. While she sometimes berates Ash for not knowing things, there are times when she doesn't know things either. They add an Ice Type trainer named Georgia who is my favorite of all the rivals.
Ash gets a rival named Trip, who is just a watered down version of Paul.
Overall: I liked Pokemon Best Wishes. There are times when you just want to sit back and let the TV play. I wanted a super long simple show, and that's what Pokemon is. I give it a 7/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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