Julie at least looks like she belongs in Pokémon. I can't tell if Ava belongs in Turning Red, Grubhub, or the dozens of other animated shows in the infamous CalArts style seen throughout the past decade.
>be 6 y/o kid >see the TCG cartoon >want to play tcg >build any single prize deck >get instantly BTFO by sableye >build any multiprize deck >get instantly BTFO by gardevoir
maybe tpci should consider fixing its clown meta if they really want to appeal to a wider audience
I miss playing with my old Expanded decks so badly bros. This is exactly the point where I stopped trying to bother with Standard because every deck was just that one over and over again. At least with Lugia there was *some* variety and skill involved after the initial setup, it didn't do absolutely everything like this deck. I just want to play with my Raichu and Pikachu V again.
Especially the fact that the MC is a mixed race b***h, with chink dad (probably not real dad) and a loose brown mother.
God, I loathe this shit so much.
Not a single brain cell in the group. Also whats with tall black lesbians in gay media? I have seen only one tall black girl in my life and she exclusively dated white dudes.
Global homogeny isn't a conspiracy theory, it's just a label for safe, focus group tested white bread shit that's intended to appeal to a global market without offending any significant demographic. Usually resulting in a bland, toothless product. It's just marketing, not a conspiracy. And I think it's a perfectly apt description for this series.
This looks either like a generic modern canadian slice-of-life cartoon, or one of those cringe JW/Mormon animated PSAs about the perils of doing anything that isn't total subirdination to your cult and your brainwashed parents…
They had the chance to go full Yugioh and just lost it. It’s not even a way for people to learn how to play the TCG. You can’t even really tell what’s happening. It’s like when you’re playing a game and start making up your own rules.
I like the mini series for what it is. Its comfy. Nice change of pace imo.
If they were to make a Pokemon tcg anime, it should not go "full Yugioh." Make it something akin the gbcolor tcg 2 game. "Full yugioh" is autism overdose.
>it should not go "full Yugioh."
Either you commit to your bit or you don't, anon. What's the point of a TCG animation that doesn't want to commit 100% of it to the TCG bit?
>"Full yugioh" is autism overdose.
I'll take autism overdose over the absolute flat line this thing is. The art is generic, there's really not much actually happening, and it doesn't even adequately represent the game, so what's even left? There's no entertainment coming out of it being sincere about its stupidity like Yugioh is, but it doesn't even have the value of trying to teach kids about the game.
A lot of what you're left with is just a standard kids-in-school cartoon and there's no shortage of shows that are better than this for it like Recess or EEnE. But because it shows Pokemon sometimes it'll get a pass for being way below mediocre.
"Full Yu-Gi-Oh" is a trued and true formula though.
What's the point of making this the TCG if you aren't going to have fun with it? Just make it kids in the pokemon world,be here you can be loser with rules anyways.
Globalization was a mistake.
It's fricking embarrassing how Pokemon has fallen for this crap when Pokemon at its most soulful was a Japanese thing made by Japanese people first that baka gaijins could also enjoy and enjoyed because it was Japanese in the first place.
Gen 6 was the first one to begin fully pandering to international audiences.
Strangely it was kind of dialed back in Gen 7 (or maybe character design direction was just better), but then they starting going all in again with Gen 8, and by Gen 9 it was terminal.
Gen 5 was the last one to be released in Japan first by several months.
Gen 6 was the first one to have a simultaneous international release date, and also appealed hardcore to Western Gen 1 fans specifically with all the Kanto references.
Also, this is more my opinion, but the dark skinned characters in Gen 5 felt natural while their presence in Gen 6 seemed strange.
It would’ve been more weird for the America region *not* to have Black folk. You could say the same about modern Paris, I guess, but all of France is not Paris and there was a very strange design shift where they gen 6 had almost entirely natural hair colors. The art style was still overall anime, but the colors were not. They took a step back from that with ORAS and going onwards but that always marked me as weird (along with gen 9’s art style shift in particular).
>it's okay because it makes sense
Here's an idea: don't make a region set in shartmerica and you won't feel any need to have Black person NPCs in your game. The place is a cultureless shithole anyway. They made a game set there because they wanted to pander to the international audience. morons on this board don't want to admit it because they're nostalgic for Unova, just like they won't admit any of the other problems that began there and pretend they came around later on instead.
9 months ago
Anonymous
BW1 was Masuda’s passion project, pandering to an international audience was obviously not its intention and ironically scorned a lot of American fans by featuring only new Pokémon until the postgame. If anything the response to it was part of what lead to the overall design changes though, yes.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>setting the games in the heart of globohomosexual isn't international pandering >having the champion of the region being a brown female isn't international pandering >bringing in a foreigner to design new pokemon for the first time ever is not international pandering >having a portrayal of an interracial relationship is not interracial pandering
Then what the frick is?
9 months ago
Anonymous
This might come as a shock to you, but Japan really likes America, for all the wrong reasons but they delusionally think it’s cool. Outside of making another game take place in not-Japan it was the obvious choice. And Iris is not the champion of BW1.
9 months ago
Anonymous
in a foreigner to design new pokemon for the first time ever is not international pandering
This actually already haooened before, but in a Pokemon spin-off game.
In Pokemon XD or something Turner designed dark Lugia
9 months ago
Anonymous
America is better for the individual than japan. Culture is a weapon either used to control you or by you to control others.
Anon, you're coping. Unova's setting was chosen for the purpose of pandering to an international audience, as was the decision to bring in a Western game artist for the first time that gen. B/W were the exact moment this all began.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>as was the decision to bring in a Western game artist for the first time that gen
Turner was absorbed along with the majority of what was Genius Sonority after PBR released, that seems like coincidental timing. Making the Brit the lead art director for Galar probably wasn’t, though.
Gen5 but only for the first games being the limitus, everything else afterwards was globalist pozzed garbage. You have no idea how many morons don't understand that Marlon isn't a nignog
The funny thing is that I've seen plenty of Southern Americans rejecting the "latinx" thing 'inclusive' snowflakes and gringos want to push on them.
In Romance languages, the masculine form and the neutral form are expressed by the same vowel, whether they like it or not.
Something as small as a harmless grammar rule will drive wokies insane.
>visit the same page in Spanish >It's spelled correctly
Those are just Employee resource groups anyway, every large company operating in the US needs to have those.
>be white leftist >obsessed with solving prejudice against oppressed minorities >change the culture of minorities to be more in line with your culture >this apparently isn't oppressing minorities by damaging their language/culture
????
>The Pokémon Company is in the filename. >The descriptions of some of the groups involved mention The Pokémon Company International.
Aside from the lack of proper media literacy shown off here you have a point about this show coming from absolute morons with a “diversity-first” mindset.
She's clearly moronic, she's an adult woman post covid with old pokemon cards from the original ex era yet thinks giving them away to Goodwill is a good idea.
>Ex era
That's nothing. Millennial boomer here and this is the first page of my old collection (no first editions though unfortunately). I want to sell off the whole binder but I've taken the time to do it.
Say whatever you want about this short, it did a great job showing how autistic the kids that play the TCG are if it wasn't for her dad helping her visualize things with imagination magic, this short would portray the same experience as 90% of kids >get cards >find the kid that plays TCG >He is insanely annoying and you never get to have fun >never want to play TCG again
Path to the Mid
The art style is just weird Disney knockoffs
Everything feels uncanny and like that meme GrubHub ad but with really weird keyframes and tweening
It's full of what sounds like awful stock music
This feels like it was made for terminally online Twitter degenerates to promote the "neurodivergent experience"
The industry's a mess. Anyone with any talent got out years ago and now makes more drawing on patreon than they would slaving away for one of the big corporations.
Everything is bland and sanitized so people don't get offended and go tell on them to the ad companies. Everything is made to be as widely appealing as possible so they can milk it as much as they can. There are no niches anymore. Everybody who made these things as their passion has either died, quit, or sold out to the corperate gods.
TL;DR israelites
A lot of the good Western cartoons that don't look like shit while still looking distinctly Western (so not anime ripoff shit like ATLA or that recent Superman show) got shitcanned because nobody watches them. See Spectacular Spiderman, or Young Justice. Face it, quality Western cartoons just don't sell.
>cute
It's not cute. >harmless
It's literally veering into the realm of propaganda. Instead of fostering an environment for genuine exploration, finding friends or whatever the frick pokemon wants to do now, and diverse perspectives, the show leans emphasizes its messages and moralizes you THIS IS BAD. THIS IS GOOD. REMEMBER GOY, diluting any fricking depth and making it even more moronic than a 4 year old kid with autism and down syndrome at the same time.
>It's literally veering into the realm of propaganda. Instead of fostering an environment for genuine exploration, finding friends or whatever the frick pokemon wants to do now, and diverse perspectives, the show leans emphasizes its messages and moralizes you THIS IS BAD. THIS IS GOOD. REMEMBER GOY, diluting any fricking depth and making it even more moronic than a 4 year old kid with autism and down syndrome at the same time.
What the frick are you talking about? It's about a group of middle school kids playing Pokemon TCG.
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The art style and writing and humor is so disgustingly Western Corporate Cartoon that I struggled to watch till the end.
Globalization truly was a mistake, I wish Pokemon stopped trying to appeal to the Disney lobotomized masses.
It makes Pokémon Concierge look like a soul project in comparison.
At least it takes effort to make stop-motion and the style doesn't seem to scream Disney artistic AND political garbage.
Agreed, but I'd still take this over that corporate cartoon tcg bullshit.
Man, why couldn't they make it anime both in visuals AND writing? Because visuals are easier to spot but what honestly bothered me the most in this thing is the writing. Why are nowadays' Western cartoons so shitty? Humor feels so cringey and idiotic, pathetically American.
Is it even possible to make a soulless stop-motion/claymation show at all?
I mean even shit like Veggietales is legit kino despite being mostly religious oropaganda
I mean, it's fine, just extra moronic. >"Lmao this game sucks ass and the meta is broken, just use your imagination if you want to have actual fun and win, kid"
Imagine having to tell your daughter to Chuuni out so they can have actual fun playing TCG. There's no other way they could have made the game actually interesting, aside of course from dickybaiting.
Can't scare away the kids and the parents with the costs of meta decks before getting to the actual meat of the competitive scene, 1st episode is just the indoctrinating introduction for casuals who didn't understand TCG before.
>1st episode is just the indoctrinating introduction for casuals who didn't understand TCG before.
Too bad they didn't actually teach any rules beyond setting up the field and made it look like you can throw whatever amount of energy you like whenever and can evolve at all times.
Women throw an absoute b***hfit when they are portrayed negatively and regularly enforce standards for their portrayal in media. Men are cucks who just sit there take it, especially white men.
They can't.
There's literally nothing wrong and they think screaming about repetative hyperbolic politics makes them interesting people.
It's biggest crime is being boring.
Character design are generic.
The story looks boring, but this is epi 1 so gets a pass
The animation is actually good, but the lack of action brings it down.
And the main problem:
There's no actual focus on the game itself, the fricking first duel in the series got skipped and we don't get to see it, even in the first episode of YGO we get to see Yugi vs Kaiba, but here there's none of that. It's fricking ass.
They can't.
There's literally nothing wrong and they think screaming about repetative hyperbolic politics makes them interesting people.
It's biggest crime is being boring.
Then what could I be gaslighting people about? Should mixed race people just simply not exist in fiction at all because fricking idiots like you will assume it's "propoganda"?
Find something worthwhile to be angry with. Or have sex for once in your life. Even just go to the gym and fricking lift.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>Then what could I be gaslighting people about?
You literally just insulted him lmao >Should mixed race people just simply not exist in fiction at all
Correct >Find something worthwhile to be angry with. Or have sex for once in your life. Even just go to the gym and fricking lift. >implying I'm not already doing these things
9 months ago
Anonymous
No, I'm pretty sure you're not if you are getting upset over this. There is nothing to be upset about and you're mentally ill.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Are you telling me what to be upset about?
9 months ago
Anonymous
Yes. Be upset about something that actually matters. If you had a life then maybe you'd have something worthwhile to be upset about.
9 months ago
Anonymous
While some things are more worth my time to be upset about, it's entirely subjective.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Some are subjective, but not for this no matter how you try to justify it.
9 months ago
Anonymous
B-But...!
9 months ago
Anonymous
But nothing. Get a life. Get real friends. Lift. Find a woman to frick. Get a job. Move out of your mommy's house.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>Move out of your mommy's house.
I already did this part though. I have a job too.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Good. Now do the other things I mentioned.
Shouldn't he find a man to frick if you're going to force diversity? At least be consistent in forcing your agenda.
I don't care. He just needs to find someone his own age to frick.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>someone his own age to frick.
No e-girls allowed?
Yep, we are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
KEK
9 months ago
Anonymous
Shouldn't he find a man to frick if you're going to force diversity? At least be consistent in forcing your agenda.
9 months ago
Anonymous
No thanks
The easy life is better
And sex is disgusting
9 months ago
Anonymous
>It's ok to be a fricking loser if I admit it!
9 months ago
Anonymous
He is right, you know?
9 months ago
Anonymous
No, you're not right.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Prove that sex isn't disguting.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I had it. It's not. You're just making excuses for your failures and don't want to put any effort in.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Yes. Be upset about something that actually matters. If you had a life then maybe you'd have something worthwhile to be upset about.
>It's subjective >This is not subjective because I said so.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>Ok here's why a blank wall is political because I say so.
I'm not denying that, and that doesn't justify them to display them as racemixers with a racemixed child. You think that choice was by accident? No it was all planned for SOME reason.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Not that anon but you're so fricking cringe dude. >WAHHHHH NO WANT PALE PERSON TO LIKE BROWN PERSON WAHHHHHH
If they were all nazis screaming white power, you'd give your computer a 3 hour standing ovation.
You don't care that it's propaganda, you only care that there's a brown person in it and that triggers you because you're fragile.
>i-it doesn't J-J-Justify!!!
It doesn't need to, it's just two people. Who cares?
9 months ago
Anonymous
>you only care that there's a brown person in it and that triggers you
Correct. And especially more with the whole racemixing thing. >because you're fragile.
It's more of a territorial thing, but you'd probably have no problem getting your "race" cucked away >mocking my words >it's just two people.
Who are an interracial couple, yes.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Race mixed kids exist. It's not propaganda you fricking idiot.
9 months ago
Anonymous
They do exist, yes, but they didn't have to choose them for the series. And yes it is propaganda because literally anything can be propaganda for anything
9 months ago
Anonymous
>ESG is not propaganda
Hi moron.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah I'm one of them and I fricking hate being pandered to all the time.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Hapamutts have been responsible for most of mass-shootings that occured in the past decade.
It’s bad because scoop up net is a banned card and a stage 1 oddish realistically could never beat jolteon ex. Also ex gives you two prizes when they get knocked out and she took 3.
Cartoons about card games should all be about mental games, cleverly tricking or playing around your opponent and bombastic psychological gymnastics between players using fantasy as an anchor. This cartoon is just Pixar's "Inside Out" but with pokemon serving as the "emotional guide" crutch characters, the girl is charismatic but clearly a Mary Sue and that undermines what would otherwise have made for a fun little short about the TCG.
YWNBAW shilloid, also it's false advertizement because IRL mudskins don't buy those cards - hey just rob the vans that deliever booster packs en-route to the stores instead.
She's clearly moronic, she's an adult woman post covid with old pokemon cards from the original ex era yet thinks giving them away to Goodwill is a good idea.
Women *are* moronic tho, that's why they send love letter to serial killers and demand unrestricted influx of rape-hungry migrants from turd-world nations where a woman's value is on par with livestock.
i liked it well enough
took a few turns i didnt expect like the friend going through an actual play for game but was otherwise about what i expected
i like the card game so ill take exposure where i can get it
>all these people defending globohomosexual liberal brainwashing propaganda because "it's a kid's show"
It's precisely because of it's a kid's show that this white genocide propaganda is dangerous
>/vp/: Borders are good. Keep those filthy immigrants out of our country! >also /vp/: NNNOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST DEXIT OUR POKEMONERINOS AAAAA SAVE ME Black personMAN!!
Don't you realise it? All the races hate racemixing for their own reasons. If anything it's mutually agreeable and supportive to not portray racemixing, as opposed to discriminating in any way.
It's all marxism and all communism. That is the ultimate goal of the deep state and globalists. They use minorities, LGBTQ, and feminists as shields. Each group forms the head of the communist hydra and they use them as shields to further instill their subtle marxist propaganda and so they can rule over YOU.
>it's a "/pol/gays get triggered by minorities being in a kid's cartoon when they themselves constantly complain about blue haired tumblr feminists getting triggered at minor things" episode
It's literally the same thing. >Is that porn of two hot lesbians kissing? I'm OFFENDED that you wouldn't include my body type, being a plus sized (trans) woman. >Is that a video of a mixed race couple? I'm OFFENDED that you wouldn't make them both white, being a plus sized white crusader.
They removed Brock (and put him back in when they realized people liked him) alongside edited Jynx all the way back in Gen 1 because they were scared they would offend Black people. The SJW/globohomosexual rot in Pokemon started before either were common terms.
Ok so I watched the episode instead of blindly accepting the opinion of Anons here.
Aside from the painful race-mixing and diversity bullshit, I really liked Ava's soft voice and Joshua's upbeat but fun personality.
Also there were some funny moments with the abrupt juxtaposition of Ava's inner world and the outer reality. The artstyle is kinda cute but sometimes too Pixarish, and her Jap father looks like a fricking blob or something.
Also too many brown people seriously wtf.
I rate it a 4,8/10. >t. I don't play card games
I know, right? She only plays to be socially accepted. She doesn't even like Pokemon, she almost fricking threw the cards away over "getting humiliated" at school for losing a card game, holy shit
this is the worst pokemon related thing ever made
It's not even the worst thing attached to the tcg man. It's fine.
Julie at least looks like she belongs in Pokémon. I can't tell if Ava belongs in Turning Red, Grubhub, or the dozens of other animated shows in the infamous CalArts style seen throughout the past decade.
She absolutely does not, this is cope if I've ever seen it just so you can justify your ridiculous hyperbole
Julie fits with Pokémon's art style more than Ava ever will. Seethe.
At least this actually had Veronica Taylor voicing it too so they put some effort in.
That’s not gen5
The Pokemon Company was the worst thing to happen to this franchise
I legitimately don't understand
Why the hell isn't a pokemon on the thumbnail? Looks like some generic disney shit
the pokemon in pokemon haven't mattered since SM
They couldn't be bothered to make a thumbnail.
I can't believe they managed to get the Toy Story IP for this series! The Woody cameo was unexpected.
Ava is the main character.
Pokemon was always about the human characters (especially in the west)
>you need Ash
No we fricking don't, thank you very much
Cringe.
>guy who directed the two worst gens said a thing
Uhhh, okay?
But he's Pokemon's creator
Sure but Pokemon wasn't actually good until Masuda took over in Gen 3.
I see
Gen 3 so boring I noped out of pokemon entirely until gen 5.
sure you did
>be 6 y/o kid
>see the TCG cartoon
>want to play tcg
>build any single prize deck
>get instantly BTFO by sableye
>build any multiprize deck
>get instantly BTFO by gardevoir
maybe tpci should consider fixing its clown meta if they really want to appeal to a wider audience
I miss playing with my old Expanded decks so badly bros. This is exactly the point where I stopped trying to bother with Standard because every deck was just that one over and over again. At least with Lugia there was *some* variety and skill involved after the initial setup, it didn't do absolutely everything like this deck. I just want to play with my Raichu and Pikachu V again.
Hey man. Pokemon missed the Yugioh hype. So they might as well do this to be popular with TCG anime.
*puking Typhlosion*
Absolutely vile art style. Everything about this shit screams globohomo
Especially the fact that the MC is a mixed race b***h, with chink dad (probably not real dad) and a loose brown mother.
God, I loathe this shit so much.
>Everything about this shit screams globohomo
Everything about this shit screams grubhubo
ftfy
you sound like a obese weeb
Get used to it pal, this is your beloved bipoc franchise now
Not a single brain cell in the group. Also whats with tall black lesbians in gay media? I have seen only one tall black girl in my life and she exclusively dated white dudes.
Is it weird that I got most angry over the donut steel instead of N being there and Hilda not being a womanlet.
Hilda is not a womanlet, the phone dating sim is not canon
Stop peddling alt-right conspiracy theories
Global homogeny isn't a conspiracy theory, it's just a label for safe, focus group tested white bread shit that's intended to appeal to a global market without offending any significant demographic. Usually resulting in a bland, toothless product. It's just marketing, not a conspiracy. And I think it's a perfectly apt description for this series.
This looks either like a generic modern canadian slice-of-life cartoon, or one of those cringe JW/Mormon animated PSAs about the perils of doing anything that isn't total subirdination to your cult and your brainwashed parents…
it was cute
They had the chance to go full Yugioh and just lost it. It’s not even a way for people to learn how to play the TCG. You can’t even really tell what’s happening. It’s like when you’re playing a game and start making up your own rules.
I like the mini series for what it is. Its comfy. Nice change of pace imo.
If they were to make a Pokemon tcg anime, it should not go "full Yugioh." Make it something akin the gbcolor tcg 2 game. "Full yugioh" is autism overdose.
>"Full yugioh" is autism overdose
>it should not go "full Yugioh."
Either you commit to your bit or you don't, anon. What's the point of a TCG animation that doesn't want to commit 100% of it to the TCG bit?
>"Full yugioh" is autism overdose.
I'll take autism overdose over the absolute flat line this thing is. The art is generic, there's really not much actually happening, and it doesn't even adequately represent the game, so what's even left? There's no entertainment coming out of it being sincere about its stupidity like Yugioh is, but it doesn't even have the value of trying to teach kids about the game.
A lot of what you're left with is just a standard kids-in-school cartoon and there's no shortage of shows that are better than this for it like Recess or EEnE. But because it shows Pokemon sometimes it'll get a pass for being way below mediocre.
>But because it shows Pokemon sometimes it'll get a pass for being way below mediocre.
It's spreading beyond the games now!?
"Full Yu-Gi-Oh" is a trued and true formula though.
What's the point of making this the TCG if you aren't going to have fun with it? Just make it kids in the pokemon world,be here you can be loser with rules anyways.
I can't believe normies actually love this thing or is this what trendy nowadays.
It's like kids not knowing bad video games are shit when growing up
they don't know good animation so they eat the shit up
I thought children's videos didn't have comments anymore
the video is barely out don't worry, the moronic youtube kids comment section hammer is coming down any moment now
Definitely not a shill bot
>Path to the peak
Eww cringe. Here’s a better path. Aww, shit I gotta target something. I guess I’ll target the brown girl in the op pic.
>BUT IF YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES
>DOES IT ALMOST FEEL LIKE NOTHING'S CHANGED AT ALL!?!
Fricking frick
The top two are girls tho.
>tfw I will never have Lumity in my life.
Please remind me which show is directed by the paedochad behind the Eddie Puss webcomic, Loud House or Owl House?
Loud House, but he got blacklisted by a bunch of roasties years ago
I wonder how special fans feel
They dodged a bullet on this.
To be fair special is only slightly less shit than this was
>To be fair special is only slightly less shit than this was
Yeah, you got that right.
it’s a shame the animation’s so good for a series nobody’s going to watch
>CGIshit
when will corporates learn? nobody likes cgislop. Not kids, not adults.
N
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Globalization was a mistake.
It's fricking embarrassing how Pokemon has fallen for this crap when Pokemon at its most soulful was a Japanese thing made by Japanese people first that baka gaijins could also enjoy and enjoyed because it was Japanese in the first place.
Yawn, it's just an another Kanto-spam episode!
>OMGGGGGG FAT BROWN PEOPLE IN THE USA JUST LIKE ME THAT IS SO FREAKING RELATABLE I WILL NOW CONSOOM
Nuke Americans
>everyone is a mystery meat
Grubhub chads we eatin good
that was awful it looks like it was made by these frickers
What was the cutoff year before this shit infested Pokémon?
Gen 6 was the first one to begin fully pandering to international audiences.
Strangely it was kind of dialed back in Gen 7 (or maybe character design direction was just better), but then they starting going all in again with Gen 8, and by Gen 9 it was terminal.
>Gen 6 was the first one to begin fully pandering to international audiences.
Nope, that was Gen 5. Black person npcs sealed the deal.
Gen 5 was the last one to be released in Japan first by several months.
Gen 6 was the first one to have a simultaneous international release date, and also appealed hardcore to Western Gen 1 fans specifically with all the Kanto references.
Also, this is more my opinion, but the dark skinned characters in Gen 5 felt natural while their presence in Gen 6 seemed strange.
It would’ve been more weird for the America region *not* to have Black folk. You could say the same about modern Paris, I guess, but all of France is not Paris and there was a very strange design shift where they gen 6 had almost entirely natural hair colors. The art style was still overall anime, but the colors were not. They took a step back from that with ORAS and going onwards but that always marked me as weird (along with gen 9’s art style shift in particular).
>it's okay because it makes sense
Here's an idea: don't make a region set in shartmerica and you won't feel any need to have Black person NPCs in your game. The place is a cultureless shithole anyway. They made a game set there because they wanted to pander to the international audience. morons on this board don't want to admit it because they're nostalgic for Unova, just like they won't admit any of the other problems that began there and pretend they came around later on instead.
BW1 was Masuda’s passion project, pandering to an international audience was obviously not its intention and ironically scorned a lot of American fans by featuring only new Pokémon until the postgame. If anything the response to it was part of what lead to the overall design changes though, yes.
>setting the games in the heart of globohomosexual isn't international pandering
>having the champion of the region being a brown female isn't international pandering
>bringing in a foreigner to design new pokemon for the first time ever is not international pandering
>having a portrayal of an interracial relationship is not interracial pandering
Then what the frick is?
This might come as a shock to you, but Japan really likes America, for all the wrong reasons but they delusionally think it’s cool. Outside of making another game take place in not-Japan it was the obvious choice. And Iris is not the champion of BW1.
in a foreigner to design new pokemon for the first time ever is not international pandering
This actually already haooened before, but in a Pokemon spin-off game.
In Pokemon XD or something Turner designed dark Lugia
America is better for the individual than japan. Culture is a weapon either used to control you or by you to control others.
Anon, you're coping. Unova's setting was chosen for the purpose of pandering to an international audience, as was the decision to bring in a Western game artist for the first time that gen. B/W were the exact moment this all began.
>as was the decision to bring in a Western game artist for the first time that gen
Turner was absorbed along with the majority of what was Genius Sonority after PBR released, that seems like coincidental timing. Making the Brit the lead art director for Galar probably wasn’t, though.
Gen 4 was the last gen that didn't have a bunch of shitskins running around.
Gen5 but only for the first games being the limitus, everything else afterwards was globalist pozzed garbage.
You have no idea how many morons don't understand that Marlon isn't a nignog
Man we really are evolving backwards.
>Latinx
Stopped reading there.
>latinx
i don't get it
it's latino or latina
??
um sweetie, that's nazi language
white liberals decided the spanish language wasn't gender neutral enough
The funny thing is that I've seen plenty of Southern Americans rejecting the "latinx" thing 'inclusive' snowflakes and gringos want to push on them.
In Romance languages, the masculine form and the neutral form are expressed by the same vowel, whether they like it or not.
Something as small as a harmless grammar rule will drive wokies insane.
>visit the same page in Spanish
>It's spelled correctly
Those are just Employee resource groups anyway, every large company operating in the US needs to have those.
Se dice latine
Only if you want to get a 0 on your writing test.
Colonization is good when liberals do it
>be white leftist
>obsessed with solving prejudice against oppressed minorities
>change the culture of minorities to be more in line with your culture
>this apparently isn't oppressing minorities by damaging their language/culture
????
Damn, leftists are secretly racist too?
>The Pokémon Company is in the filename.
>The descriptions of some of the groups involved mention The Pokémon Company International.
Aside from the lack of proper media literacy shown off here you have a point about this show coming from absolute morons with a “diversity-first” mindset.
Why is the hot brown-skinned mom with 2/10 NEET-looking man? She has ass, great hair and a corporate job. She could do so much better.
giwtwm
She's clearly moronic, she's an adult woman post covid with old pokemon cards from the original ex era yet thinks giving them away to Goodwill is a good idea.
>Ex era
That's nothing. Millennial boomer here and this is the first page of my old collection (no first editions though unfortunately). I want to sell off the whole binder but I've taken the time to do it.
Weird time to think you need to make a flex against a fictional woman but alright moron.
I liked the part where she admitted to getting stung on her dicky.
kys
You mock me but I'm not wrong.
Souless, i wish we could go back to the good old days
>"We want a Grubhub audience"
Say whatever you want about this short, it did a great job showing how autistic the kids that play the TCG are if it wasn't for her dad helping her visualize things with imagination magic, this short would portray the same experience as 90% of kids
>get cards
>find the kid that plays TCG
>He is insanely annoying and you never get to have fun
>never want to play TCG again
Joshua was a cool guy.
Path to the Mid
The art style is just weird Disney knockoffs
Everything feels uncanny and like that meme GrubHub ad but with really weird keyframes and tweening
It's full of what sounds like awful stock music
This feels like it was made for terminally online Twitter degenerates to promote the "neurodivergent experience"
I will not be there no matter what
Why is western art so revolting?
Jews are in charge of the entertainment industry
It didn't used to be like this. Like everything else in western society, parasites took over.
The industry's a mess. Anyone with any talent got out years ago and now makes more drawing on patreon than they would slaving away for one of the big corporations.
Everything is bland and sanitized so people don't get offended and go tell on them to the ad companies. Everything is made to be as widely appealing as possible so they can milk it as much as they can. There are no niches anymore. Everybody who made these things as their passion has either died, quit, or sold out to the corperate gods.
TL;DR israelites
>wanting to make a profit is for israelites only
When do I get my hat in the mail?
better than BDSP and SV's art
No sense of beauty or real standards.
Or they conclude the existence of beauty oppresses the ugly, so it's baddy bad and has to go.
A lot of the good Western cartoons that don't look like shit while still looking distinctly Western (so not anime ripoff shit like ATLA or that recent Superman show) got shitcanned because nobody watches them. See Spectacular Spiderman, or Young Justice. Face it, quality Western cartoons just don't sell.
Because there are no good draftsmen left.
I don't get what's so bad about this? It's cute and harmless. There's nothing worth getting angry about.
>cute
It's not cute.
>harmless
It's literally veering into the realm of propaganda. Instead of fostering an environment for genuine exploration, finding friends or whatever the frick pokemon wants to do now, and diverse perspectives, the show leans emphasizes its messages and moralizes you THIS IS BAD. THIS IS GOOD. REMEMBER GOY, diluting any fricking depth and making it even more moronic than a 4 year old kid with autism and down syndrome at the same time.
>It's literally veering into the realm of propaganda. Instead of fostering an environment for genuine exploration, finding friends or whatever the frick pokemon wants to do now, and diverse perspectives, the show leans emphasizes its messages and moralizes you THIS IS BAD. THIS IS GOOD. REMEMBER GOY, diluting any fricking depth and making it even more moronic than a 4 year old kid with autism and down syndrome at the same time.
What the frick are you talking about? It's about a group of middle school kids playing Pokemon TCG.
>Wanting depth
>In a pokemon tcg youtube short
weebs need a reason to whine
Hello Joe. How's Japan?
Rent free. Mentally ill.
Oh it's (You) Merricku-San, when are you posting that Mongolian Supermarket Promo Code to get a Shiny Weedle in Pokemon Go? Gotta get that exclusive on your website!
The art style and writing and humor is so disgustingly Western Corporate Cartoon that I struggled to watch till the end.
Globalization truly was a mistake, I wish Pokemon stopped trying to appeal to the Disney lobotomized masses.
>Make a region set in shartmerica complete with Black person NPCs
this was the moment when it became obvious where the series was heading
It makes Pokémon Concierge look like a soul project in comparison.
At least it takes effort to make stop-motion and the style doesn't seem to scream Disney artistic AND political garbage.
her long thin neck is unsettling
Agreed, but I'd still take this over that corporate cartoon tcg bullshit.
Man, why couldn't they make it anime both in visuals AND writing? Because visuals are easier to spot but what honestly bothered me the most in this thing is the writing. Why are nowadays' Western cartoons so shitty? Humor feels so cringey and idiotic, pathetically American.
Concierge will only be kino if she gives good ending room service to the pokemon and have sex with them, no lube and no condoms.
Is it even possible to make a soulless stop-motion/claymation show at all?
I mean even shit like Veggietales is legit kino despite being mostly religious oropaganda
Black person
I would like to take a moment to remind everyone b***hing about the show in this thread:
You will NEVER be Japanese.
I mean, it's fine, just extra moronic.
>"Lmao this game sucks ass and the meta is broken, just use your imagination if you want to have actual fun and win, kid"
Imagine having to tell your daughter to Chuuni out so they can have actual fun playing TCG. There's no other way they could have made the game actually interesting, aside of course from dickybaiting.
If father told her about the meta and gave actual tips it'd be based and I'd watch it.
Can't scare away the kids and the parents with the costs of meta decks before getting to the actual meat of the competitive scene, 1st episode is just the indoctrinating introduction for casuals who didn't understand TCG before.
>1st episode is just the indoctrinating introduction for casuals who didn't understand TCG before.
Too bad they didn't actually teach any rules beyond setting up the field and made it look like you can throw whatever amount of energy you like whenever and can evolve at all times.
>race mixing propaganda 30 seconds in
KEK
grow up
>accept the decline of civilization and the acceleration of a one world government
Kys
you sound like an insane doomsday cult member, go outside
He did.
Neither of them is white and unseasoned so why does it matter?
>mother pajeet
>father japanese
Life is short.
And?
You're wasting yours.
>DUDE, WHAT IF WE NORMALIZED PAJEETS IN JAPAN BY MAKING A PAJEET/JAPANESE COUPLE AND ITS RACE-MIXED CHILD?
That is normal
It's not "normal", and it shouldn't be. Frick you
I said I wouldn't jerk off today but I can't resist this.
You can't be fricking serious
>Cartoon with strong family values
I'm thinking based
Would it be propaganda if they were all one race?
>dad is repeatedly shit on throughout
What did they mean by this?
Weaponized Feminism obviously
Just like every cartoon?
It's as if... They're doing it on purpose!
*every Westoid cartoon
Women throw an absoute b***hfit when they are portrayed negatively and regularly enforce standards for their portrayal in media. Men are cucks who just sit there take it, especially white men.
>dad is the one who teaches Ava about the heart of the cards that results in her “getting gud”
It could have been a lot worse
Closer to Vanguard’s approach than Yu-Gi-Oh’s
Why is race mixing bad?
Racemixing is only reserved for white men
Sometimes I watch the Last Airbender and pretend it's Pokemon
>Am I out of touch?
>No, it's the children/normies who are wrong.
This shit was pretty good. You have to be pretty jaded to not enjoy it. You should have a nice day if nothing brings you joy.
Are you woke? Fricking far left pig.
There is literally nothing wrong with immigration and mixed race relationships. Race doesn't matter, we're all people. It's 2023, wake up
Kys commie
This was....Actual;ly fun and good? Besides defeating all 6 pokemon with one attack.
>Besides defeating all 6 pokemon with one attack.
that's all i needed to hear to know this is just fricking ass
She got her last two prize cards. I'm dying laughing at you two getting btfo by a children's show.
Explain why this is bad without bringing up race, politics, or not making your dick hard.
They can't.
There's literally nothing wrong and they think screaming about repetative hyperbolic politics makes them interesting people.
It's biggest crime is being boring.
OK. The Trading Card game is boring and having to use imagination underlines the sentimentality of it.
they are playing the game wrong
This isn't the anime, they actually played how the real game is played.
Character design are generic.
The story looks boring, but this is epi 1 so gets a pass
The animation is actually good, but the lack of action brings it down.
And the main problem:
There's no actual focus on the game itself, the fricking first duel in the series got skipped and we don't get to see it, even in the first episode of YGO we get to see Yugi vs Kaiba, but here there's none of that. It's fricking ass.
Kys.
>kys
You're not an interesting person, and will never do anything interesting with your life.
This comment is the definition of gaslighting
>There's not a single mixed race kid in the entire world!
What the frick is wrong with your perception of reality?
I never said that
Then what could I be gaslighting people about? Should mixed race people just simply not exist in fiction at all because fricking idiots like you will assume it's "propoganda"?
Find something worthwhile to be angry with. Or have sex for once in your life. Even just go to the gym and fricking lift.
>Then what could I be gaslighting people about?
You literally just insulted him lmao
>Should mixed race people just simply not exist in fiction at all
Correct
>Find something worthwhile to be angry with. Or have sex for once in your life. Even just go to the gym and fricking lift.
>implying I'm not already doing these things
No, I'm pretty sure you're not if you are getting upset over this. There is nothing to be upset about and you're mentally ill.
Are you telling me what to be upset about?
Yes. Be upset about something that actually matters. If you had a life then maybe you'd have something worthwhile to be upset about.
While some things are more worth my time to be upset about, it's entirely subjective.
Some are subjective, but not for this no matter how you try to justify it.
B-But...!
But nothing. Get a life. Get real friends. Lift. Find a woman to frick. Get a job. Move out of your mommy's house.
>Move out of your mommy's house.
I already did this part though. I have a job too.
Good. Now do the other things I mentioned.
I don't care. He just needs to find someone his own age to frick.
>someone his own age to frick.
No e-girls allowed?
KEK
Shouldn't he find a man to frick if you're going to force diversity? At least be consistent in forcing your agenda.
No thanks
The easy life is better
And sex is disgusting
>It's ok to be a fricking loser if I admit it!
He is right, you know?
No, you're not right.
Prove that sex isn't disguting.
I had it. It's not. You're just making excuses for your failures and don't want to put any effort in.
>It's subjective
>This is not subjective because I said so.
>Ok here's why a blank wall is political because I say so.
Literally true. Anything can be political
Only through the eyes of the mentally ill.
>Explain why this is bad without bringing up what is bad
You should fricking have a nice day
Those are not valid reasons
Yes they are, filling a children's cartoon with blatant propaganda is wrong.
It's not propaganda
People of different skin colors exist, lol
I'm not denying that, and that doesn't justify them to display them as racemixers with a racemixed child. You think that choice was by accident? No it was all planned for SOME reason.
Not that anon but you're so fricking cringe dude.
>WAHHHHH NO WANT PALE PERSON TO LIKE BROWN PERSON WAHHHHHH
If they were all nazis screaming white power, you'd give your computer a 3 hour standing ovation.
You don't care that it's propaganda, you only care that there's a brown person in it and that triggers you because you're fragile.
>i-it doesn't J-J-Justify!!!
It doesn't need to, it's just two people. Who cares?
>you only care that there's a brown person in it and that triggers you
Correct. And especially more with the whole racemixing thing.
>because you're fragile.
It's more of a territorial thing, but you'd probably have no problem getting your "race" cucked away
>mocking my words
>it's just two people.
Who are an interracial couple, yes.
Race mixed kids exist. It's not propaganda you fricking idiot.
They do exist, yes, but they didn't have to choose them for the series. And yes it is propaganda because literally anything can be propaganda for anything
>ESG is not propaganda
Hi moron.
Yeah I'm one of them and I fricking hate being pandered to all the time.
Hapamutts have been responsible for most of mass-shootings that occured in the past decade.
MEDS.
NOW.
Not an argument
Reddit. Go back there.
What is reddit?
It's where people like you belong
The place with better porn threads than 4chins has, because they seperate on-model kino from off-model cringe coomshit.
It's yet another plate of boring and safe corporate slop with a boring and safe corporate artstyle
It’s bad because scoop up net is a banned card and a stage 1 oddish realistically could never beat jolteon ex. Also ex gives you two prizes when they get knocked out and she took 3.
What else is there in life?
Cartoons about card games should all be about mental games, cleverly tricking or playing around your opponent and bombastic psychological gymnastics between players using fantasy as an anchor. This cartoon is just Pixar's "Inside Out" but with pokemon serving as the "emotional guide" crutch characters, the girl is charismatic but clearly a Mary Sue and that undermines what would otherwise have made for a fun little short about the TCG.
Because it is boring. They made a show about the real world with Pokemon sometimes instead of making a show about Pokemon.
I disliked the implied nationalities of these characters and was hormonally frustrated that there is no fan art of the younger child character.
You'll be getting your rocks off soon enough:
That was just a joke, goddamn those people are fast.
YWNBAW shilloid, also it's false advertizement because IRL mudskins don't buy those cards - hey just rob the vans that deliever booster packs en-route to the stores instead.
Women *are* moronic tho, that's why they send love letter to serial killers and demand unrestricted influx of rape-hungry migrants from turd-world nations where a woman's value is on par with livestock.
Make a third video game cowards
They did
Tcg online
Tcg live
Not the same as having a full on adventure mode
why wasn't the fricking tcg special about them
Are we really getting upset over a literal childrens' show?
>completely sterile and inoffensive by-the-book toddler animation
AI could create slop like that
Maybe AI did. It's becoming a credible theory after what happened to SV with its lack of care for worldbuilding and off-looking official art.
i liked it well enough
took a few turns i didnt expect like the friend going through an actual play for game but was otherwise about what i expected
i like the card game so ill take exposure where i can get it
We're never getting that PokeSpe / Adventures adaptation.
And thank God for that
Why
Because they would have probably ruined it
It was ruined when it was first written
I've only read the first chapter but turning Green into a silent edgelord was cringe
Let's be honest, adventures isn't good
>all these people defending globohomosexual liberal brainwashing propaganda because "it's a kid's show"
It's precisely because of it's a kid's show that this white genocide propaganda is dangerous
How do people end up like this?
Too much internet
Mass-immigrants tearing off your home to build a refugee camp.
There's racemixing happening right now and there's nothing you can do about it. Damn I love being brown.
Honestly if people are happy together there really isn't anything wrong with it, people here are just being racist homosexuals about things
Because morons will always be happy together to meet their needs, doesn't mean they're doing the right things
Finally someone here with common sense
I just think this is globohomosexual corporate dogshit. This isn’t going to destroy the huwhite race.
>/vp/: Borders are good. Keep those filthy immigrants out of our country!
>also /vp/: NNNOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST DEXIT OUR POKEMONERINOS AAAAA SAVE ME Black personMAN!!
These images are a synonym for "I concede". I look forward to your next reply only reinforcing your concession.
Don't you realise it? All the races hate racemixing for their own reasons. If anything it's mutually agreeable and supportive to not portray racemixing, as opposed to discriminating in any way.
>These images are a synonym for "I concede". I look forward to your next reply only reinforcing your concession.
Thank you
Japanese Pokemon media became the most popular franchise in the world but we have to have Pokemon ESG and Pokemon DEI versions
>DEI
Haven't heard of that yet, what is it?
Corporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs. It's called DIE for a reason.
I see, thank you
>adults watching a cartoon aimed at children complain on a Ganker board that its not up to their standards
naruhodo..
Anon, are you lost or moron? Where do you think you are at?
I'm complaining about the cultural colonization.
It's all marxism and all communism. That is the ultimate goal of the deep state and globalists. They use minorities, LGBTQ, and feminists as shields. Each group forms the head of the communist hydra and they use them as shields to further instill their subtle marxist propaganda and so they can rule over YOU.
>I have no idea what these words even mean but I'm gonna repeat them because I saw other people say these words and I wanna be COOOOOOOL.
>projecting this hard
You can just Google those words, you know
I know.
Why didn't you?
But I did, you're just assuming I'm talking out of my ass
>you're just assuming I'm talking out of my ass
Because you are.
Nope
Yep.
No
It looks like shit.
The existence of black people is propaganda.
I'm saying this without any irony.
The existence of your mom is propaganda for getting my dick hard.
/pol/sisters....
Black christian women are superior and more loyal than your average white roastie.
If this is true, then you wouldn't have a problem with Black christian men impregnating white women.
The problem begins with "white woman"
I see nothing wrong with a white man having children.
Then why be hypocritical like the trannies?
How did one of them end up looking white?
Genetics
>Pic related his dad is black
>it's a "/pol/gays get triggered by minorities being in a kid's cartoon when they themselves constantly complain about blue haired tumblr feminists getting triggered at minor things" episode
>blue hairs never went away, corporations further aligning to them
>/pol/gays decide to complain the same way they did
What's the gay phrase used to excuse the shit state of the status-quo?
"Dont hate the player, hate the game"?
It's literally the same thing.
>Is that porn of two hot lesbians kissing? I'm OFFENDED that you wouldn't include my body type, being a plus sized (trans) woman.
>Is that a video of a mixed race couple? I'm OFFENDED that you wouldn't make them both white, being a plus sized white crusader.
Yep, we are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Imagine their children
>/misc/ get triggered when there's a White woman with a minority
>/misc/ also gets triggered when two minorities get together
There's no winning.
Get this Steven Universe looking homie outta here. Ava is for the Bulldyke
>Tells a SU looking character to GTFO
>Posts someone who's also SU looking
white people genocided, enslaved and even nuked minorities for thousand of years
stop complaining
>even nuked
The Atlantians were right for nuking the Wewuz-kangdom.
You're lucky the Finno-Korean hyperwar didn't last 200 more years.
Fake news. History is a gigantic rape of everyone vs everyone. China did worse.
>nuked minorities
it's a jap and a poojet
What do /misc/tards hate the most? LGBTQAI+ shit or diversity
Lgb is within the circle of diversity
Life
One brings the end of humanity and the other keeps humanity alive. So the first one obviously
white people started 2 world wars, created the nuclear bomb and exterminated the entire central and south america culture
all of that were israelites
why do brownoids think israelites are white
Because they have white skin
so do albino Black folk
>watch this for the keks
>pokemon tcgshit all over my recommendations now
Thanks a lot
Just delete the video from your watch history, bro
use incognito next time
wtf is that
It's propaganda
My girlfriend is white but I'm not
Zased if true
She's for the streets
They need a character who only collects waifu/husbando cards.
If my skin is white, my wife's skin is white and out children also have white skin. Does that make us white?
If you need to ask, then you already know the answer
>this thread
But I don't have a gf
>Its up
Yeah, up your ass next to the bugs joe
Are Pokemon cards recyclable?
Surprised they went for Ghost trainer being the antagonist and not a Dark-Type one since Dark type is called Evil in JP.
Because dark is associated with black which could trace back to the skin color which is a big nono to display blacks as the antagonist
They removed Brock (and put him back in when they realized people liked him) alongside edited Jynx all the way back in Gen 1 because they were scared they would offend Black people. The SJW/globohomosexual rot in Pokemon started before either were common terms.
Some Black person in the USA was preparing to sue Nintendo for it, they changed Jynx to avoid the onslaugh of israeli lawyers
Ok so I watched the episode instead of blindly accepting the opinion of Anons here.
Aside from the painful race-mixing and diversity bullshit, I really liked Ava's soft voice and Joshua's upbeat but fun personality.
Also there were some funny moments with the abrupt juxtaposition of Ava's inner world and the outer reality. The artstyle is kinda cute but sometimes too Pixarish, and her Jap father looks like a fricking blob or something.
Also too many brown people seriously wtf.
I rate it a 4,8/10.
>t. I don't play card games
When you try to bring up your daughter's spirit and encourage her over a bad day but it turns out she's a fricking schizo sperg...
I know, right? She only plays to be socially accepted. She doesn't even like Pokemon, she almost fricking threw the cards away over "getting humiliated" at school for losing a card game, holy shit
Those cards must have been sprinkled with cocaine. There's no other fricking way
Guys, it's over. We won the argument against the librards, shills and glowies, again.
Go ahead and believe that if it helps you sleep at night
Wait! Her dad is Japanese and mother black. What exactly is the problem here?
The mom is a pajeet like her voice actress