Twelfth Pokemon Movie Sets Guinness Records

[Anarchemitis]

Sad face.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I remember seeing the first one when I was a kid and falling asleep. It was boring as hell. You'd at least expect to see some pokemon kicking ass in a pokemon movie.

 

[scotth266]

Is the series still about Ash and pikachu? Did he ever get it on with Misty, or is she even still part of the show? I only ever saw the first two movies (which were awesome), and then kinda moved on. Although, I think I would go see something where it's a huge battle royal of all the Legenary, because watching the rarest of rare slaughter each other with cartoon violence does sound pretty cool.

Misty got the boot for another chick, who was vastly less interesting. May was her name, I think.

Seriously. She managed to be worse than Misty, who was... actually a excellent trainer/character by comparison. And then they apparently replaced her with someone worse.

They tried to ditch Brock, but the person that they replaced him with was so hated that they brought him back.

Check this out. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Ptitlei015gc004kw4]

I'm actually interested to see this now... a subbed version of course (ENGLISH DUB IS DEATH TO MY EARS.) I don't really like Pokemon, but it could be a nice nostalgia trip.

 

[Voltano]

And just for the heck of it, here is a interesting fact: The boy and the star of the films/episodes is suppose to be 10 years old, there are only 365 days in a single year and yet the number of pokemon episodes featuring the boy vastly exceeds that number. So unless he has like 3 or 4 adventures a day, the whole thing makes next to no sense.

...And I thought Jack from the '24' shows was incredibly busy throughout the entire series.

I remember watching the first film in Theaters, though I vaguely remember the plot now...Still, to hear that there is a theme park built around this series is...Sad.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Is the series still about Ash and pikachu? Did he ever get it on with Misty, or is she even still part of the show? I only ever saw the first two movies (which were awesome), and then kinda moved on. Although, I think I would go see something where it's a huge battle royal of all the Legenary, because watching the rarest of rare slaughter each other with cartoon violence does sound pretty cool.

Misty got the boot for another chick, who was vastly less interesting. May was her name, I think.

Seriously. She managed to be worse than Misty, who was... actually a excellent trainer/character by comparison. And then they apparently replaced her with someone worse.

They tried to ditch Brock, but the person that they replaced him with was so hated that they brought him back.

Check this out. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Ptitlei015gc004kw4]

I'm actually interested to see this now... a subbed version of course (ENGLISH DUB IS DEATH TO MY EARS.) I don't really like Pokemon, but it could be a nice nostalgia trip.

This saddens me. Misty was at least a decent character, capable of (bad) emotion, and that whole vague romance thing made a modicum of sense, but oh well, I suppose. I guess if it was consistently the same three people trying to catch 'em all, the show might have actually lost appeal (ha!). Seems weird that it's only the girl who has to leave, though.

 

[LadyZephyr]

Isn't Arceus the pokemon that is basically God of the Pokeworld? :is vaguely tempted to see it....:

 

[scotth266]

This saddens me. Misty was at least a decent character, capable of (bad) emotion, and that whole vague romance thing made a modicum of sense, but oh well, I suppose. I guess if it was consistently the same three people trying to catch 'em all, the show might have actually lost appeal (ha!). Seems weird that it's only the girl who has to leave, though.

As a person who watched the Pokemon anime as a kid until his (very early) teen years, I agree completely. I actually SAW the episode they ditched BOTH Misty and Brock... and it caused much rage in me.

It sort of gives you the feel of being cheated, having watched all those episodes for nothing. In the sense of "unfufilled romance" Pokemon even ranks above Inuyasha in terms of "WHY WON'T THEY DO SOMETHING ALREADY!"

Oh, and they tried to ditch Brock twice too, just to be clear. They tried to replace him with some random dude (who was essentially a clone of Brock), and then swapped him out for some kid (who I distinctly remember as being irritating as I'll get out.) Brock won out in the end though, thank god.

 

[Millaninja]

Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ.... 12, I grew out of the anime and movies a while ago, but I still play the games... I'm working on All Dark and All normal type teams off of pearl...

oh, and btw...

God dammit, Little Foot. When will you finally fucking die?[/quote]

Or Grow up, even? After All of this time, you still look like a hatchling...

 

[PhantomCritic]

Wow. I stoped watching these after the first movie. It's hard to believe it's still this popular.

It's Japan, pretty much everthing thats not popular everywhere else, is over there.

 

[Iampringles]

The first one was the only decent film, in my opinion.

2nd was pretty ok, and the third kinda lost the plot...

As to how they made it to twelve, I do not know. But, congratulations.

 

[milomalo]

i still like pokemon ... alot

 

[pigeon_of_doom]

I'd half expect that if we ever sent forward the best media our cultures had produced those three enduring classics would be on the American short list, and Mobile Suit Gundam, and a couple of the Pokemon movies (if not the whole series) would be somewhere on the Japanese ones.

Best media? Of course not, pop culture icons? Maybe along the same lines as Luke Skywalker is here. The huge success of Twilight and Transformers recently in the western world pretty much eradicates any pretence of superiority of our media over theirs. And Kurosawa's films are far too huge to be ignored, easily on par with Casanova and many other classics. Sure, cultural differences and the post-war focus on animation due to lack of funds and western actors/settings have led to a strange gulf between the cultures, but there's no need to be quite so disparaging.

Still, twelve films, wow. All I remember from the first two which I saw is that absolutely incredible song from Pokemon 2000 that some girl has to play to summon Lugia.

 

[Kriptonite]

Would it be ironic if the 13th one failed misreably?

Thank you. You absolutely made my day! /\\ Pure unfiltered awesome here!

 

[FinalHeart95]

This is Japan's Harry Potter I guess.

 

[Kiereek]

Would it be ironic if the 13th one failed misreably?

ironic? i don't think so. funny? yes

 

[ssgt splatter]

Would it be ironic if the 13th one failed misreably?

No. With Arceus, they pretty much covered all of the Legendaries of the series, so I'm pretty sure that they're running out of new material.

They have to be. If they make a 13th movie, it would have to end the series and Ash might just possibly have a love interset by then. I mean jesus, 12 movies and god knows how TV episodes and the main hero of the show still doesn't have a girl? Come on.

 

[cavsfan69]

Kind of on a side note here, but did you guys know ash ketchum was voiced by a girl (Sarah Natochenny)

 

[ssgt splatter]

It's Japan what do you expect.

And just for the heck of it, here is a interesting fact: The boy and the star of the films/episodes is suppose to be 10 years old, there are only 365 days in a single year and yet the number of pokemon episodes featuring the boy vastly exceeds that number. So unless he has like 3 or 4 adventures a day, the whole thing makes next to no sense.

Good point because there's like what 1500 episodes at this point by now? Anyway the way I see it, Ash is two years older at the end of each group of films. So after movie 5 Pokemon Heros, he's 12. After movie 9 Temple of the Sea, he's 14. Again that's my assumtion, since in the 9th movie his voice gets deeper so he must of hit puberty somewhere between movies 8 and 9; so they are trying to make it seem like he is "growing up."
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but I could be wrong.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Kind of on a side note here, but did you guys know ash ketchum was voiced by a girl (Sarah Natochenny)

WHA?!
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Well, maybe that explains why they don't give Ash a love interset!