What anime episodes should I watch? I just started it but I cant imagine watching all 1000+ episodes. Is there like a summary of some seasons so I can skip them?
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What anime episodes should I watch? I just started it but I cant imagine watching all 1000+ episodes.
Just watch the first season and then watch 5 episodes from all other seasons and then watch every season where you liked the 5 episodes.
It takes...less time than you'd imagine if you have it playing in the background 24/7, occasionally tuning in for the battles and leagues and stuff
P.S.
~Around 5 months I guess? Just make it a part of your daily routine
The movies are definitely not to be binge watched, 1 movie a day is the best way to see them in a memorable way
I don't remember shit about any of the movies past Arceus. Kinda feel like they became glorified Pokemon of the Day but starring a Legendary after that point
>It takes...less time than you'd imagine if you have it playing in the background 24/7
Why bother having it on at all if you're not paying attention? You're not taking it in at all.
It’s not a “take it inkind of show, it’s a “have it playing while you do other minor activities on a Saturday morning” kind of show
Not my problem, you should've been born 25 years ago.
I was watching the anime as a kid I just didn't have my own computer and internet access to watch all the episodes until I was already starting to get bored of the anime, and even my viewership up to that point had been patchy since I was watching it on public television, not from a library of tapes.
Don't say you actually watched it then if you're gonna ignore most of the episode, ADHD moron
meh, there's not really an important plot or anything. the anime is pretty much a glorified commercial. don't think anyone's gonna bother making a watch guide. I would just jump around and watch what's interesting to you. watch a few episodes about pokemon you like, and if you like a certain cast of characters, watch more of their season.
A lot of the early anime is borderline filler that can be summed up like this
>character of the week shows up
>hit it off with the gang
>team rocket shows up to steal weekly character Pokémon and/or Pikachu
>someone (usually Ash) slaps their shit around
>team rocket blasting off etc
>gang part ways with character of the week
Some people like that, but if you are looking to make actual progress on the gargantuan 1000 episode meal before you, it’s probably worth speeding through those or just skipping them. Burnout will hit you hard otherwise
Two questions then
1. Has anyone ever made a watch guide? I know other big shows like Naruto have them and when you omit filler it cuts the episode count by like 50%
2. Besides the OP/ED, is there anything in the episodes you can skip? For example, the One Piece anime has a 7-10 minute recap at the start of every episode. So when you skip that and the OP/ED you get the episode down to 10-15 minutes a pop
1.there is a watchguide but only for the XY seasons, you can ask for it on /padt/
2.uh...you can skip the entire show.
BIG SPOILER: Being a Pokemon Master is defined by Ash to be "the person who befriends all the Pokemon in the world". No this isn't epic, it's actually extremely anticlimatic in the context of the show since it focuses way more on actual league competition on the rare occasion it progress the plot, in a very specific algorithm. (badges - league admission - league conference). Boiling it down to some friendship crap actually goes against the morale of the Hoenn league where the show basically says that friendship should not get into the way of fair competition.
Basically there's no coherent story or worldbuilding after the Kalos seasons, you could easily skip SM and JN. Everything before that is worth a watch though, all of the movies are worth seing too, even the newer ones.
>BIG SPOILER: Being a Pokemon Master is defined by Ash to be "the person who befriends all the Pokemon in the world".
in the very last episode I mean.
I usually don't spoil stuff but this is so idiotic and anti-cathartic even by ashnime standards that I won't concede.
Also I'd recommend watching all the movies first.
Really for a super condensed vision - I'd just recommend watching movie 5 - Pokemon Heroes - and from then on you decide whtehr you wanna see it or not.
Also movie 5 is going to play a CRUCIAL part in JN - the last season so you better start off wth movie 5.
Okay here's my reccomendation.
- movie 5 Pokemon Heroes!!! Must watch, it's awesome and seinenish even by normal seinen anime standards, feels kinda like a Miyazaki movie even. The only movie where the animators REALLY took the show seriously.
-Movies from 1 to 23 (I guess 3 of movies a day would be okay, hmm...but still, watching more than 1 per day isn't really satisfying, more like, confusing even)
-All of the ashnime from episode 1 up to the end of XYZ
-SM is like. Whatever but you can watch it by that point
-JN is kinda underwhelming but it has a huge subplot that delivers on the characters and secret lore from movie 5 Pokemon Heores so I guess you should see it.
That's it!
>Also movie 5 is going to play a CRUCIAL part in JN
You’re really overselling it. Latias in JN has no relation to the one in the movie and nothing from the movie is mentioned by anyone and the only relevant part is them showing altomare at the end of the second to last episode
>ash jobs almost every league he's fought.
>"uhh, actually, being a pokemon master is about muh friendship, i'm totally a pokemon master and not a fricking moronic jobber!!!"
>ash quits.
Basically, the entire anime is pointless, imagine if one piece ended with luffy finding the one piece but he stops at the last moment before he can reveal what the one piece is and he said something stupid like "actually, the real one piece is the friends we made along the way." and simply left the one piece there and walked away.
Ash winning leagues is super contrived and never should have been a thing, the anime is just a commercial not worth watching outside the first season
>Has anyone ever made a watch guide?
Someone from /padt/ actually made a complete watchguide and it's included in the OP, you can ignore the babbling of the useless Latiasschizo
Naruto is based on a manga, where episode are either direct adaptations of manga chapters or anime-original stuff that "fills" weeks between the episodes adapting the manga. These never really add to the story because the story was written for the manga and not the anime.
Pokemon doesn't work like that, it's all anime-original material loosely following a video game.
Btw, there's one pace which is a project made to get rid of one piece's filler
>Has anyone ever made a watch guide?
Straight up stolen from the anime threads:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nr3LMRBx-tJZtSwAbc4s4YTEgg6MVFnc
Why should i trust this literal who opinion?
>Asks for a watch guide
>Gets one
>Bitches about it
/vp/ at its finest.
Anon, you have to understand this is a children's show, there is no complicated plot, the episodes are also rarely connected, plot-wise, you could jump into almost any episode and understand what's happening, given a few exceptions where a section of the story is segmented into multiple episodes
To understand the pokemon world, both watching the anime and playing the games works, though the stories are different
In conclusion, don't watch the anime if you don't enjoy it, the sparse amount of lore in it doesn't justify it, however, if what you want to learn about is specifically the anime characters and the world, then skipping episodes doesn't really makes sense, since every episode explores the anime a bit more, some more than others
>A lot of the early anime is borderline filler
I hate when people call the anime filler, what is the canon then? It is an entirely different story, with the only connection to the games being the world itself, there is no filler or canon, since there is no material that the story (not the world) is based on
You can say it feels like filler, though, that's different
When people talk about Pokemon filler they mean “episodes that don’t affect the overall plot”. Most character of the day episodes fall into that category.
>“episodes that don’t affect the overall plot”
That's most of the show, which also applies to almost any other kids' show
Correct. An episode being filler doesn’t make it bad, in fact many of the best Pokemon episodes are filler.
I never said filler meant that the episode is bad
>many of the best Pokemon episodes are filler
There are no filler episodes, as I have said in my initial post, this label does not make sense
The definition of filler episodes are “episodes that are unrelated to the main plot and don’t impact relations between characters”. When people talk about anime filler then they mean episodes that has stories that wasn’t in the source material.
For example the episode where Ash is crossing cycling road is a filler episode despite cycling road being in the games because it has no bearing on the plot whatsoever.
>the source material
What source material? There is none, it's a different story
I guess you could call the episodes that don't impact the plot "filler", but the meaning of filler is so vastly used to mean "not present in the source material", especially when talking about anime, that I find it non-sensical
This. Anipoke fans always throw around the term filler incorrectly. Pokemon doesn’t have filler. It is an original story. There is no source material like the Dragon Ball manga.
>Anipoke
What?
There is no specific definition for filler. If it doesn’t progress the story and is never referenced again, it’s filler
It's an adaptation of the world created for Pokemon Red and Green, so any locations or characters that didn't appear in the game and aren't parallels to existing game characters that don't meaningfully bring anything to character arcs or story progress are absolutely filler.
The Orange Islands, for example, an original location that was made exclusively for the anime, were it not for Ash catching Snorlax and Charizard deciding to no longer be a massive homosexual, would be completely skippable as nothing of actual consequence happens. Even the GS Ball plot can be ignored because the anime itself said "frick that" in favor of the movie Pokemon 4Ever.
>Even the GS Ball plot can be ignored
I'm still mad
me too, who gives a shit if Movie 4 would've been to close to it. Better than having a plot hyped up for 50 episodes go nowhere
It is still an original story. It is not like DBZ or Naruto that actually has filler episodes not based on anything from the manga. What does actual consequence even mean? Pokemon has never had some huge long-term narrative.
>hey ho look at me, I’m grass type ding dong here to use some grass types that Erica won’t!
>oooo weeee I hope team rocket doesn’t show up
>golly they did and wow they lost
>thanks Ash and friends for helping me out
>time to never hear from or reference me again oooo weee…
These episodes do NOTHING for the main plot and exist for no other purpose than to fill the timeslot for that week because of Japan’s moronic cable rules. All you miss out on is seeing a Pokémon that may never be shown animated again, or now and then seeing Brock or Misty get off their ass and actually participate in a battle
Filler doesn’t strictly mean “stuff not in the manga/light novel” it applies to live action shows as well and just refers to any episode that doesn’t advance the overall plot in any way
This
Imo filler is any episode that does not feature:
>meeting a new traveling companion
>catching a pokemon
>evolving a pokemon
>pokemon learning a new move
>gyms/contests
>meeting/battling a rival
>league championship
>fighting evil team (OTHER than team rocket trio)
Just watch E037. Best girl is on it.
That's not Giselle.
Is there anywhere to find the episode with the original Porygon episode preview?
The japanese version has a preview for the Pikachu village episode but the original had a preview for the Porygon episode.
There is a guide that lists all the important episodes that have important character introductions, catches, evolutions, gym/league/rival battles, and evil team sub plot. Honestly as someone who has watched most of the episodes if you were to follow such a guide then Kanto-Hoenn, and Alola will be miserable.
only watch until the orange league
After that watch the specials and movies
I currently do the same thing but I'm satisfied with one episode per day. Maybe I will give up in Unova or in Alola.
Although I originally only wanted to watch a movie after a season ends I began watching one movie per week on week-end. The movies are more enjoyable but the episodes also have their charm.
And I think I'll rewatch every movie after I finish a season.
The continuity is ass.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category:Episodes_written_by_Takeshi_Shud%C5%8D
From episode 1 to the end of Battle Frontier is all you really need
Then the World Tournament if you really wanna see the conclusion
Everything else is filler, rehash, or just plain bad
But Dawn is hot
Uglier rehash of May tbqh
Agreeing with , though I'll give some more detail.
All of Kanto and Orange Islands.
For Johto, following the watch guide, all the non-filler episodes or all non-filler up until EP143 (GS Ball abandoned) or EP146 (Wobbuffet joins Team Rocket), then skip to the league for closure.
Hoenn is only good for May's contest arc. Rest of AG starting from the league and encompassing the Battle Frontier is decent enough from what I remember.
Rehash burnout hit for me in Sinnoh, so I don't recommend any beyond AG, or Orange Islands if you want to be extra cynical.
The first 5 movies are recommended along with movies 8 and 21.
Most Specials I would recommend with varying reasons from not featuring Ash, doing something different, or just cute Pokémon doing cute things.
All anime listed in the watch guide's Other tab are recommended and have no continuity with the main commercial anime.
Dub is fine for most, but Sub is a must for any Special in the Chronicles series (Chronicles's dub is really bad.), Movie 5 (Backstory cut from dub, original dub release ruined the colors.), and maybe anything after TPCi took over the dub during the middle of the Battle Frontier.
Skipping episodes is for gays. Watch them all or be a wuss
Kanto, Orange Islands and Johto. That's all.
>Johto
Frick off.
Why ya crying, zoomer?
none.
moron.
First episode of OS then last episode of Ultimate Journeys to quickly see how trash series was from start to end.
>First episode of OS
>trash
OS wasn't trash, it had SOUL.
>OS wasn't trash, it had SOUL.
Soulless opinion
>The entire OS series.
>The Battle Frontier
>The entire DP series.
>SM series.
>JN series.
These are the only series with actual progression so watch them.
>OS
>Progression
OS is the root and had many of Ash's character development. Its definitely the first series people need to watch.
Every anime, movie, ova except Horizons - It became garbage beyond by then.
horizons episode 18 is pretty good, it's fairly stand alone and tells a story about burn out and how a chance encounter expanded horizons
otherwise i love the original ash series, up until the orange islands at least because it felt a lot less sanitised than basically everything onwards
Watch the first season, then skip every other season and watch horizons
only reason to watch pokeanime is for the absurd amount of girls in there, it's pretty bad otherwise
The first few seasons are alright. After that I'd just skip to the end of every season to see the league matches.
just watch kanto, johto and hoenn, then watch the movies up to arceus, then stop
that's the best move
Don't forget Dawn.
1 and 2 are good, mostly compared to classic anime around the time period more than the soulless corporatization. 3 Isn't awful but you start to feel it mostly by 4 and 5. 6 tries some more shonen stuff and 7 tries more slice of life so if you're into that then watch those. lmao season 9 and 10.
In terms of movies, would recommend all up until Zoroark. Watch I Choose You though, would highly recommend
It ends on such a wet fart you may as well not bother. Just watch Kanto and the Orange Islands then pretend it ends there with marrying Misty and having kids. That's the ending Ash SHOULD have gotten!
Ash marrying Misty I mean.
Watch season 1, then orange islands idf you're still enjoying it. From johto, I'd say the eps where ash meets a witch and turns into a pikachu, the larvitar egg eps, the lugia special, and the silver conference.
If you're bored during any episodes, just fricking skip. Even as a kid it's not like you were home every Saturday morning.
I stopped watching when they went to Hoenn, can't comment on that.
Don't forget to watch this episode in the Orange League series since it can be tricky to find.
Basically watch any episodes as long as there's no Rhydon in it.
Simple as.
>any episodes as long as there's no Rhydon in it.
Why?
It's Rhyperiorgay, don't reply to him
because they aim for the horn