New Pokemon Anime Is Set In The First Generation

[Xman490]

The first official trailer for Pokemon: The Origin opens with tribute to the original Gameboy games, showing us the classic Nidoran vs. Gengar intro, complete with iconic soundtrack.

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As the kind of person who knows that it's a Nidorino (with its round body and pointy ears) fighting the Gengar, I am excited for this. It's good enough that I can still play the original games on my Gameboy Advance SP (lasted 11 years and counting, with the games not tarnished by a run-down time system), but this is great!

 

[Innegativeion]

I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw this.

It's basically what I was hoping for since I stopped watching the original Pokemon anime in the 3rd season, when I was like... 9.

I pray to god this is half as awesome as it looks, and pray that's it's popular enough to have more game-centric animations made.

 

[The White Hunter]

bland and inoffensive.

HOW DARE YOU!

[sub]Yeah, this is getting a little out of hand...[/sub]

How dare you kick over that plant pot! What's the point in such violence?

I! I don't... I just don't even....

[sub]Time to head back to the League cave methinks, I designed us a new emergency logo since ours is apparently copyrighted[/sub]

OT: I hope this turns out to actually be worth watching, unlike the last ten years of the anime.

 

[RaikuFA]

TV special or not, I need this *drools*.

What's this argument about? Charmander is neutral against the first gym and at a disadvantage in the second, making him the most difficult starter of all three. Only the strongest trainers take that challenge.

What? Fire is weak against rock, not neutral. Brock has Geodudes and an Onix (both I believe are rock/ground) and a rock throw can easily put down Charmander. So against Brock, Charmander is at a disadvantage (especially since Charmander's other attacks at the time would be normal type, which is also resisted by rock). Giovanni (the last one) is the ground type gym leader, and when rock hits ground it's neutral but not the other way around.

Exactly, that's why they added the chance to catch a mankey in FR/LG, for the Charmander fans.

Bulbasaur all the way though.

 

[N_of_the_dead]

Riddle me this. What Pokemon is number one? WHO is number one!?

Rhydon?

OT
I look forward to this, and now wondering which pokemon he'll be catching?

 

[Xan Krieger]

What's this argument about? Charmander is neutral against the first gym and at a disadvantage in the second, making him the most difficult starter of all three. Only the strongest trainers take that challenge.

But it's trivial to spend a few days grinding charmander into a charmeleon by the time you meet Brock and that makes the fight so much easier. Sure it's weak against rocks but if you grind it like I did a scratch will split those rocks in half.

OT: I'm more excited than a little girl going to see One Direction in concert, make it a series please.

Captcha: This is Our Game
As someone who still plays Pokemon Blue yes it is, yes it freakin is and I couldn't be happier.

 

[Rad Party God]

Charmander as the new Pikachu?... and it actually evolves into Charizard?*... no Misty in sight bitching around?... no Team Rocket trio?... and no Ash!?...

Color me interested

[small]*Let's hope they don't repeat that BS about Charizard not giving a shit :/[/small]

 

[Beryl77]

Riddle me this. What Pokemon is number one? WHO is number one!?

Rhydon?

You mean Mew?

OT:
Yeah, I got pretty excited when I heard about this. Luckily, both Brock and Oak look different from their normal anime counter parts. So hopefully this means that it really will be different from the anime and we'll have a competent protagonist for once. Maybe if this gains enough popularity, it will actually be made into a series or at least they'll also make animes about the other games. Legend of Korra was also supposed to be only one season long at first, so there is still hope.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

"Oh, hey! It's Red! And Red's rival, Douche! Good to see you, Douche!"

Those were my thoughts during that trailer. Because the old jokes are still funny. And goodness this thread got derailed quickly, but Red is clearly smart--Charmander is the best! He's strong against what, five of the eight gyms, and two of the Elite Four?

Besides, we all know the best starter is Link Cable.

 

[mysecondlife]

Big fan of Bulbasaur here. I hope he gets some amount of love in this one.

 

[Drauger]

And not a pikachu in sight.

Sounds like it could be interesting.

THIS

Seems interesting I'll probably miss the only fun part of the original pokemon series , Team Rocket but still seems nice.

 

[AxelxGabriel]

Im fully ok with a new Pokemon anime, but if it does NOT have the original Pokemon theme song, then it's got nothing.

 

[teh_Canape]

No Bulbasaur = Fail.

That is a funny way of saying Charmander is the best starter.

I agree, Squirtle is the best starter.

go water starter or go home
reppin' Squirtle and Totodile

 

[Lieju]

Exactly, that's why they added the chance to catch a mankey in FR/LG, for the Charmander fans.

Bulbasaur all the way though.

Actually, they added Mankey in Yellow, since you had to start with Pikachu. (And made it learn Low Kick at level 9)

I wonder who Red will have as companions. Although if it's a short special it can work just fine with him traveling alone.

As for starters, the first gen is one where I like them all equally.
I chose Bulbasaur on my first playthrough, though, because I was told it was easiest. (And since I bought Red version, which my friends told me was harder than Blue I decided to go with that.)

I guess I prefer Charmander, though. I usually choose the fire-starter (I know I will in X and Y) because it's the rarer type than water or grass.

 

[an annoyed writer]

I have mixed feelings about this. I mean, Ash was an annoying, incompetent, borderline retarded shit-for-brains bumblefuck that didn't succeed without industrial-strength metaphorical training wheels bolted to his dumb ass, and his companions weren't all that much better, but honestly I kinda liked the fact that he was so severely flawed. It was a show where your main character was everything BUT a badass, and it kinda stood out because of that. Plus the electric rodent was cute and all that. With this new series all of that is gone. Of course, it means that now we should get to see the adventure of a pokemon trainer that's actually somewhere in the range of competency, like just about every player who has touched the goddamn game, but I have reservations about it because we have so many "Follow badass dude doing badass things" shows already that it might not stand out like the original did. Either way, I wish them luck.