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Contains spoilers but I am keeping the major ones aside. I will be focusing on the characters and story as a whole, not stuffs like the arts or the music in any kind.

This is clearly the best Pokemon series story wise.

This series takes the best things from the previous regions and evolves one step further. The story now introduces us to the Sinnoh region and Hikari as the main heroine. Here, the things are kept really simple with goals set to the both characters Satoshi and Hikari from the get go.

All of the episodes are about Sinnoh region and so this is the longest region ... episode wise till this day. Because of this, it succeeds in giving time to develop not just Satoshi and each of his pokemons but also Hikari and her contest battles. Satoshi in this region is already self-flourished and knows what he can accomplish unlike before with a winning habit developed. He already was a mature and composed trainer but also learns to battle in an adaptive way giving him the freedom in his battles and imaginations.

Hikari on the other hand isn’t as experienced as Satoshi, so she learns through her journey and mistakes. The contest battles here are so much better visually and tactically which are now equally interesting as Satoshi’s battles. Hikari has her rivals to grow as a contest trainer with new tricks every now and then. Her wins and losses are carefully explained with valid reasons and solutions are also presented and are agreeable. The contest battles are now focused on the visual representation which wasn’t always the case before.

Pocchama (Piplup) made this series many times better.

The best thing from this series is introduction of a genuine rival for Satoshi. Satoshi had some rivals in the past trips but none of them really convinced to be one. We get Shinji in this series who gets introduced in first few episodes and plays a big part in the journey of Satoshi throughout the whole series. There also is the story of Shinji and Chimchar that left a good mark on the journey. There are rival battles here and there some with 3-on-3 and some with full battles.

There is a huge involvement of the enemy team (team galactic) and the champion, Shirona across the episodes. The legendries in this series are well explained of their capacities and origins. All of the elite fours also make their appearance with quite enough screen time. The league battles were also executed well than before.

To decorate the masterpiece with a cherry on top, the movies of Sinnoh regions are by far the best ones. Not only they are great individually, the movies are connected to each other forming a story on its own.

Not gonna lie but there are surely episodes that you get bored with and better off sleep but when you look at the whole journey, it's different than the others in a good way.

Overall, the series focuses on the story as a whole unlike before so they seem logical as well without much of plot armor or plot holes. The seriousness in the story keeps this region ahead of the other regions.

Contains spoilers but I am keeping the major ones aside. I will be focusing on the characters and story as a whole, not stuffs like the arts or the music in any kind.

Following the uninteresting Johto region, this series taking place in the Hoenn region actually worked pretty well.

This series made the difference first by introduction of Haruka, a newbie trainer. Because of this alone, Satoshi had his moments where he looked and was actually mature and had patience in comparison. Speaking of which, this series gave Satoshi as much time he required to grow as a trainer which got us out of the nightmare ... from the Satoshi we had before. He started to gain experience and also served as a mentor at the first for Haruka.

Another win from this series is the introduction of Pokemon Contest. This gave us a different approach to the Pokemon world. The episodes weren’t uninteresting anymore and didn’t repeat the Johto region since this included a fine story for two trainers than just one. Though the contest battles worked as the secondary story, it really stayed as the sub-story of the main as Satoshi’s adventures often overshadowed the contest battles.

The series also shows the battle frontier as an arc so the whole Hoenn adventure was compact. The battle frontier takes place in Kanto and gives us the reminiscence of the things back then.

But with the things at the back end, some of them made me feel rushed and plot armored just for the sake of the completion of their dreams and stuffs. There also were some of the unnecessary character development at times.

Overall this was uprising of the Pokemon series and was just the better version fixing the bad pacing and lack of the story depth in the previous series. The animation also became better from near end.

Contains spoilers but I am keeping the major ones aside. I will be focusing on the characters and story as a whole, not stuffs like the arts or the music in any kind and the fact that you’re reading this, I assume you are somewhat older than the intended age group of Pokemon.

Being the first Pokemon series, this one doesn’t really prove to excel in any category.

The main idea of this series is pretty simple and that is introducing us to the Pokemon World. I find this fairly logical and exactly what was needed but certainly it lacked the punch. This series pretty ... much focuses on Pokemon and not the battles or the trainers. As a result we’ve got this bratty Satoshi who is very immature and is looked after by two gym leaders to guide him to the pokemon battles and how to be a trainer. Since it wanted to focus on the pokemons, the gym battles aren’t even a battle sometimes and the party of Satoshi’s pokemons frequently changes. The battle rules are also questionable in the series sometimes but were later updated to a better version in the next series.

The problem with this series is clearly the pacing. The Kanto region lasted just for the first 80-90 episodes which went pretty fast and well but with orange islands following it, which was boring as hell and we got the remaining episodes on Johto region which made it even worse. Almost all the episodes are a one episode stories without much of a connection throughout the journey, which aren’t really exciting as well. It really stays loyal to the original game for better or for worse.

I also have problems with characters like Shigeru who is once introduced as a rival but Satoshi clearly isn’t even on his standards. This might be an unpopular opinion but Charizard was annoying as hell in the entirety of the first half. I personally think it was beacause Satoshi wasn’t a fully grown trainer but he never became even at the end of the whole series. He wasn’t given the time to grow as a trainer himself.

As a whole, this series is pretty monotonous which made it kinda mid without anything much to talk about it.