>What made early Pokemon so charming?
The games were made with passion and soul.
The anime was free to do what it wanted, had a great 90s cel animation style and a good OST.
The TCG was fun and easy to play, had beautiful artwork by various artists and was good for trading/collecting too.
Animation cels physically exist.
Computer animation can be perfect but therefore not real to the brain.
Think of the holograms in star wars how the transmissions appear damaged but if they were just crystal clear it would probably ruin the suspension of reality.
I think for the anime specifically it’s the fact that it was closer to regular anime than the stuff it eventually turned into.
The Sabrina arc from the first season is a prime example, they would never do something like this today
Yeah, it is a little bit more authentic. Things like Ash carrying his Kanto mons into Johto, or characters like Duplica and Ritchie showing up in Kanto and Johto. Little details like that make it seem like you are watching an actual anime that cares about it is own continuity and development. Granted, it is still a toy ad, but it was a bit more authentic.
>Hand-drawn >A main trio with actual personalities >The most iconic music cues and episodes >Ash was a jobber specifically because of his immaturity and inexperience
It wasn't a masterpiece, or even great, but it was something.
>only 151 well defined pokemon. quality over quantity. easy to memorize >undocumented pokemon unknown to the pokedex that were shrouded in mystery
it was always super cool how there were those rare episodes when undiscovered pokemon would make an appearance. literally the first episode gave us that. then again when they meet bill at the lighthouse and we see a silhouette of something in the ocean. it was magical
Good humor, creative episodes and originality
I've watched most of the Pokémon anime, but I still believe the stretch that started with Ash getting the 3 Kanto starters and ended with Charmeleon's evolution has the best episodes in the entire anime. Each one had a different experience, wasn't over reliant on the typical character of the week trope of most fillers and was overall really fun. I do think they dropped the ball after that, though, and the second half of Indigo Saga feels like a slog with no new captures for Ash and mostly bad filler
I mean the first half of Indigo Saga has the best pacing of Pokémon. Ash gets a full team in less than 15 episodes and gets 6 badges by episode 40. It's clear the long stretch between Koga and Blaine's battle was because the anime was having a lot of success so the writers were forced to stretch it, which created all the pacing problems of the rest of the season
its because ash was some little bastard fricking around having a great time on an adventure when most mcs were pure of heart it was kind of refreshing.
A lot of things in this thread but something important to also remember is the setting was originally a lot more grounded. It had some scifi elements from the start but everything about Pokemon was like taking the world from a kids perspective and blowing it up out of proportion, but then also making that world how the world works. Realism is usually shit, but Pokemon added just enough of it in. They gave up around Gen 4 and just went full sci-fi.
um.......the animation was sub-hd i thinks
That screenshot is from a movie.
>What made early Pokemon so charming?
The games were made with passion and soul.
The anime was free to do what it wanted, had a great 90s cel animation style and a good OST.
The TCG was fun and easy to play, had beautiful artwork by various artists and was good for trading/collecting too.
modern anime has shit awful color palettes
it was novel and you were an easily impressed child.
then why don't we have people calling mid era pokemon charming
They were
charming? including the anime or official artwork? i think not
They all have unique eyes, except for a few
Cel-shading?
They do?
The 90's was the last era of human innocence
Animation cels physically exist.
Computer animation can be perfect but therefore not real to the brain.
Think of the holograms in star wars how the transmissions appear damaged but if they were just crystal clear it would probably ruin the suspension of reality.
I think for the anime specifically it’s the fact that it was closer to regular anime than the stuff it eventually turned into.
The Sabrina arc from the first season is a prime example, they would never do something like this today
Yeah, it is a little bit more authentic. Things like Ash carrying his Kanto mons into Johto, or characters like Duplica and Ritchie showing up in Kanto and Johto. Little details like that make it seem like you are watching an actual anime that cares about it is own continuity and development. Granted, it is still a toy ad, but it was a bit more authentic.
>Hand-drawn
>A main trio with actual personalities
>The most iconic music cues and episodes
>Ash was a jobber specifically because of his immaturity and inexperience
It wasn't a masterpiece, or even great, but it was something.
By today's zoomerific standards that's practically a masterpiece
good points. adding onto this post
>only 151 well defined pokemon. quality over quantity. easy to memorize
>undocumented pokemon unknown to the pokedex that were shrouded in mystery
it was always super cool how there were those rare episodes when undiscovered pokemon would make an appearance. literally the first episode gave us that. then again when they meet bill at the lighthouse and we see a silhouette of something in the ocean. it was magical
>quality over quantity.
>misty
>personality
lol every girl companion after her had more personality than that b***h
Its the watercolor backgrounds. Homestly that is 75% of what makes older anime better.
Watercolor backgrounds.
you were 12
Good humor, creative episodes and originality
I've watched most of the Pokémon anime, but I still believe the stretch that started with Ash getting the 3 Kanto starters and ended with Charmeleon's evolution has the best episodes in the entire anime. Each one had a different experience, wasn't over reliant on the typical character of the week trope of most fillers and was overall really fun. I do think they dropped the ball after that, though, and the second half of Indigo Saga feels like a slog with no new captures for Ash and mostly bad filler
I mean the first half of Indigo Saga has the best pacing of Pokémon. Ash gets a full team in less than 15 episodes and gets 6 badges by episode 40. It's clear the long stretch between Koga and Blaine's battle was because the anime was having a lot of success so the writers were forced to stretch it, which created all the pacing problems of the rest of the season
its because ash was some little bastard fricking around having a great time on an adventure when most mcs were pure of heart it was kind of refreshing.
Grit. The pokemon world used to be depicted more realistically before they went down the neon colored utopia path.
A lot of things in this thread but something important to also remember is the setting was originally a lot more grounded. It had some scifi elements from the start but everything about Pokemon was like taking the world from a kids perspective and blowing it up out of proportion, but then also making that world how the world works. Realism is usually shit, but Pokemon added just enough of it in. They gave up around Gen 4 and just went full sci-fi.
DP anime was where it peaked. sorry boomer
Johto anime was peak, DP just brought it back to that level.
Because Shudo wanted to write an actual anime and not just a toy commercial
The anime stopped being good after Shudo left.