So I caught up on Poopymon

• Cucurbita wrote on 2013-01-29 12:56
  Finished up Diamond and Pearl, started getting caught up on Best Wishes. I thought I'd blabber on about what I think about it.
  
  Everything in spoilers, not that any of you who haven't watched it yet ever plan on it.
  
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]Holy shit, Ash finally made it top 4 in a league? But he lost because his opponent was throwing legendaries out. His team managed to take out 2, but jesus christ... using legendaries should be banned in league matches. Like how is that even fair?
  
  Lovely Cynthia defends her champion title, as she should.
  
  So Diamond/Pearl ends and starts Black/White.
  
  [SIZE="5"]The BAD:[/SIZE]
  

  
  
  • Ash, once again, decides to leave all his hard trained pokemon and catch/raise new ones. This leads to him losing in just about every fight ever. His Pikachu was disabled in the first episode by a plot device, so he lost a fight against a starter too. I get that he wants to experience a new region to its fullest and all, but it really conflicts with his whole "becoming pokemon master" thing.
    
    
    
  • Brock wasn't the best character, but he was still a pretty good companion for Ash and has stuck by him all this time. But this time, we have Cilan here. This guy is just bad. His personality is not interesting, he has absolutely nothing to offer to the series, and looks like someone out of Cyborg 009.
    
    
    [Image: http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/4b/Cilan_anime.png/800px-Cilan_anime.png]
    
    
    
    
  • The writers managed to completely forget one very important aspect when introducing a female lead this time as well. We can forgive the fact that she is a [S]sand nigga[/S] tall loli with ridiculous hair, but we can't forgive the critical importance of having her on a BICYCLE, which Pikachu DESTROYS. This has been the model for every generation and it is highly regretable that they couldn't follow through with this running gag.
    
    
    [Image: http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/8/8b/Iris_Swinging.png/800px-Iris_Swinging.png]
    
    
    
    
  • Pre-animated attack animations. To be repeatedly used. Typical in long running animes, like Fairy Tail.
    

  
  
  [SIZE="5"]The GOOD[/SIZE]
  

  
  
  • Team Rocket doing their job. From the very start of the series, Jessie and James are given a specific mission by Giovani to infiltrate the new region. It must have been the whole "special assignment" thing, because throughout the series you can really see them going try-hard. One of the biggest things that made Pokemon stale was their constant repetitive "try to steal pokemon, fail very easily, blasting off again" antic. Their roles being upgraded from comic relief to something more of an involvement in the plot is quite deserving.
    
    
    
  • Fucking ghost subway terrorism. Is this a modern western? Hell yeah.
    
    
    
  • Most battles are actually very enjoyable to watch. They don't feel like fillers and has a lot of action. Most importantly, it had IMPACT. Even a tackle was so satisfying to see.
    
    
    
  • The anime soundtrack is a remix of the game's. For anyone who hasn't played B&W... it had a really fucking good set of tracks.
    
    [video=youtube;Rn4vt8jX190]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn4vt8jX190[/video]

  
  
  [SIZE="5"]The ASS[/SIZE]
  

  
  
  • Three words: Bianca. Big. Ass. Both figuratively and literally.
    
    
    [Image: http://i.minus.com/iDuk79tMvatp1.png]
    
    
    I'm sure it is Bianca. I'm sure it is.
    
    
    [Image: http://i.minus.com/i1EQnzfHf7wDB.png]
    
    
    [S]woop woop pull over dat ass too fat[/S]

  
  [/SPOILER]
  
  Verdict: Pokemon Black and White is a pretty decent anime. It has a lot of improvements on the previous seasons. The battles are actually really good, but fall flat every once in a while by using plot devices like "IT EVOLVED FOR A POWER UP TO SAVE THE DAY", which is very cliche and unfun. I don't recommend watching it though. Fuuuck its long.
  
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]About characters.
  
  Elesa's armpits are bursting with flavor
  Skyla's thighs have been nerfed during the adaptation to the anime
  Adel is kind of a dick
  Giovani waging war on Team Plasma is actually pretty fucking awesome
  Cynthia is still the pinnacle of womanhood
  Caitlin is still cozy
  N is not as creepy as I expected him to be
  Dawn is still defenseless with that miniskirt
  [/SPOILER]
• Oizen wrote on 2013-01-29 15:22
  Only you would watch pokemon for the women.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2013-01-29 15:48

  Quote from Oizen;1021853:

  Only you would watch pokemon for the women.

  
  
  Man, no other pokemon battle will ever animate a fucking Tynamo use tackle over and over again and give it so much impact.
  
  http://www.pinoyanime.tv/pokemon-best-wishes-episode-52/ (starts at 15 minutes in)
  
  Anyways I really liked it. But you gotta filter out all the filler episodes to squeeze the 100 episode series down to about 30 otherwise its just too long to watch.
  
  The conclusion for the season was really good. Dragonite going ham, Pikachu being sugoi desu, and lots of meloetta.
  
  I fucking love meloetta.
  
  [video=youtube;HvPgGgn-0bE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvPgGgn-0bE[/video]
• Taycat wrote on 2013-01-29 18:39
  They screwed over Meloetta in America...
• Paul wrote on 2013-01-29 22:44
  Video reminds me of Joshiraku's Ending... oh look, there's even a Meloetta x Joshiraku video.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2013-01-31 05:57

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki X;1021957:

  They screwed over Meloetta in America...

  
  
  Uhh how?
  
  They didn't change the VA at all for the localized version.
• Taycat wrote on 2013-01-31 06:01

  Quote from Cucurbita;1023031:

  Uhh how?
  
  They didn't change the VA at all for the localized version.

  
  
  I dunno, she sounds a little different.
  Might be the audio quality of the episode I watched maybe.
• Ceui wrote on 2013-01-31 07:42
  Oh I get it.. It's called Black and White because there's a black girl and a white guy in Ash's group!
  
  I've never actually played Black and White, nor watched Best Wishes so I'm clueless about the characters.
• Taycat wrote on 2013-01-31 07:49

  Quote from Ceui;1023076:

  Oh I get it.. It's called Black and White because there's a black girl and a white guy in Ash's group!
  
  I've never actually played Black and White, nor watched Best Wishes so I'm clueless about the characters.

  
  
  Black and White refer to the colors Reshiram and Zekrom get.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2013-01-31 15:17

  Quote from Ceui;1023076:

  Oh I get it.. It's called Black and White because there's a black girl and a white guy in Ash's group!
  
  I've never actually played Black and White, nor watched Best Wishes so I'm clueless about the characters.

  
  
  Its one of my favorite generations. People really put it down because of some uninteresting pokemon designs but as far as the world, music, and gameplay goes it was really well done.
  
  

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki X;1023082:

  Black and White refer to the colors Reshiram and Zekrom get.

  
  
  Ironic because white gives you Zekrom and black gives you Reshiram. Confused the fuck out of me.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2013-01-31 17:04
  Annnnd now I see what you mean.
  
  Japanese Version:
  
  [video=youtube;uXHFPQxoFVs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXHFPQxoFVs[/video]
  
  English Version:
  
  [video=youtube;qtemdiZVUj0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=qtemdiZVUj0[/video]
  
  The difference in ability between voice actors is so plainly obvious it hurts. I read somewhere that they had the same voice actor... and seeing how she doesn't have any different lines, I thought it was true.
  
  I just... I didn't know...
  
  Why would they do that?
  
  Her singing is so perfect.
  
  [video=youtube;girCdkMwA04]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girCdkMwA04[/video]
• Oizen wrote on 2013-01-31 17:16

  Quote from Cucurbita;1023165:

  Its one of my favorite generations. People really put it down because of some uninteresting pokemon designs but as far as the world, music, and gameplay goes it was really well done.
  
  
  
  Ironic because white gives you Zekrom and black gives you Reshiram. Confused the fuck out of me.

  
  They'd blend in with the cover if it was the other way around.
• Natural Harmonia Gropius wrote on 2013-01-31 17:32
  Ash is still fucking 10 years old. Even after holiday specials and shit that clearly shows that time has progressed. The manga is better.
• Taycat wrote on 2013-01-31 23:08
  It sounds like they echo'd Meloetta and lowered the pitch...
  That's a dumb thing to do.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2013-02-01 00:25

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki X;1023454:

  It sounds like they echo'd Meloetta and lowered the pitch...
  That's a dumb thing to do.

  
  
  The VA is simply not as good at singing. You can just tell.
  
  I have no idea why they changed VA's for pokemons whose names are the same in both versions.
  
  

  Quote from Natural Harmonia Gropius;1023223:

  Ash is still fucking 10 years old. Even after holiday specials and shit that clearly shows that time has progressed. The manga is better.

  
  
  He is canonically at least 12.
  
  He introduced himself as 11 in the start of DP, and it has been one year since then that he is in his BW journey.