Azeria

Japanese trailer iirc.

Remember: Both Kyogre and Groudon are on the poster. We may get a parallel version with Team Aqua next week.... Besides, I don't see why you're surprised Courtney was odd, her ORAS incarnation was crazy as fuck anyways...

Honestly, I never really used the 3d feature. Kinda hurt my eyes, so doesn't change much for me.

IGN is Team Magma and: HOLY FUCK THAT SCEPTILE. PRIMARY LOTUS THAT GOLBAT LOL.

Jan back at it again with the gr8 mapping. Beautiful tbh. Goldenwood looks gorgeous.

"Aaaand she's pissed. Oh boy." Rafael's eye twitched once more as he looked at the very rapidly approaching girl he'd just stabbed, rapidly approaching and on fire too. That was actually pretty cool, if very dangerous... Seeing very few other options, he attempted to jump to the side, only for the fist to graze his arm and his jacket quickly caught on fire and Rafael quickly took it off and threw it to the side. Something caught his eye as she went past him however, a sheathed weapon, most likely the thing he kept sensing the pull from. Though with his current amount of Lumen and his quite rapidly depleting stamina, he wasn't sure if he could pull anything with it like he'd done with the guy that'd turned himself into metal for some reason. Either way, he didn't want see what would get put on fire next. "Well, that's another thing that's been ruined in the last few minutes. Hope you don't mind if I just call it quits. I'd rather nothing else get burnt or melted..." Rafael said while he grabbed his arm as the burns on it started acting up once again. They didn't stop him from doing much but now that he wasn't focused on getting the hell out of the way of whatever flaming abomination that came flying his way, they were a lot more annoying. Thank the lords above he didn't get hit by that last one...

Exactly as the title states. What pieces of mythology and lore behind the Legendary Pokemon are your personal favourite. Personally, I tend to prefer the story behind the Legendary Beasts and Ho-oh in Johto though Giratina's backstory is a very close contender.. Crystal was my first Pokemon game so it has a bit of a nostalgia factor to it, Ecruteak itself is my favourite town in the series after all, but I always liked how mysterious they are, there's barely anything you see of them aside from the initial encounter at the base of the Burned Tower outside of wild encounters you have with them. Entei the fierce, Suicune the graceful and Raikou....Honestly, I feel like Raikou kinda gets shafted. They show how fierce and dominant Entei is through it's depictions while Suicune is portrayed as graceful and wise. Meanwhile Raikou is essentially a blank slate. Interesting thing is how their types line up with what actually occurred. Raikou represents the lightning that struck the tower, Entei represents the fire that engulfed it and Suicune represents the rain that put out the fire. While what they were before the tower burnt down will most likely remain vague for eternity, their legend lives on. And then comes what is essentially the equivalent to the devil in Pokemon. Giratina. A Pokemon that once helped shape the universe, one that governs over anti-matter and was later banished for it's violence. It is now said to gaze into our world from another realm; one where neither time flows nor does space expand. It's said to appear in ancient cemeteries. One can notice straight away that there's a certain number pattern going on between it's 2 forms. 6 wing spikes, 6 ribs, 6 legs in the altered form and 6 wings, 6 leg-spikes, 6 ribs in the Origin form. While it's never been confirmed, Giratina is pretty clearly implied to be the 'Devil' Pokemon, even it's species name indicates this even further as it's appropriately titled as the 'Renegade' Pokemon. What's even more interesting is that it's creator and trio master, is the equivalent to god in the Pokemon universe. The distortion world is a very dark, dreary and maddening place. It's intriguing how despite the fact that it's never actually stated that Giratina is the 'Devil' Pokemon, the symbolism and lore behind it all indicate towards that being true. There's simply no way this wasn't an intentional design choice. Perhaps they'll touch upon that if they ever remake the 4th generation games.

Darmanitan

Just realised something. That leaked starter evo for Litten seems to be based off of Heel Wrestlers who fight very unfair using underhanded and cheap tactics, which is why so many people seem to be thinking it's Fire/Dark. It's also very hated. Which is the very point of heel wrestlers; for them to be hated. They feed off it. So this makes me wonder, is it a success for it's intended purpose after all? Never mind the fact that it'll probably look way better in it's in-game model. In other news; The demo is 400mb. The Game itself is 3.2 GB. That's nearly TWICE THE SIZE of X/Y and OR/AS. Absolutely insane. I imagine the improved overworld models take quite a bit of that space but on the other hand, this probably means there's a LOT of content in the games themselves.

She'll most likely have Scizor. It was her ace in the league after all...

Oranguru + Mega Kanga THEY KNOW THEY CAN'T ALLOW THAT LOL. I'm seeing new megas coming later in this gen. No way they're just abandoning the thing just like that.

I mean, Leafeon/Glaceon's evo methods were made to introduce area evolutions so....

They probably ate some chocolates. Now they're diggers.

Consider what the two Pokemon are based off of. I'd be very surprised if there weren't carnivorous Pokemon out there.

Heatmor and Durant.

Lance's cheating coming in handy for once

Rafael scowled as he saw his ruined knife fall to ground, useless, but had to soon jump out of the way of the second coming of the bird of flame. "Tch, now I have to get another one of them." He muttered as he started walking towards Rame, having taken two more knives out before walking towards the white haired girl, flinching every few seconds because of the burn on his arm. After getting close enough, he felt it. That same feeling he did only a few minutes earlier. Rafael looked closely at his opponent, but couldn't exactly make out what it was from his current distance. Deciding that waiting to find out wouldn't do him any good like this, Rafael started running forward. Seeing as long rage fighting didn't seem to be doing him any good. As soon as he got within 4 meters of her, he threw one of his knives at her leg before moving a bit to the side, ready to redirect the blade if she tried to burn it to a crisp, like she did the other knife.

Silver's exclusion was weird, but I'm hoping he gets a whole episode dedicated to him, like Blue did.

Might have been a different studio, the style is noticeably different. Honestly, I absolutely love how people complain about "Pokemon not giving them a more mature anime, or at least one without Ash." Then when they DO give you just that, you guys complain about minor factors. Like, no wonder they rarely try stuff like this.... The animation here was just fine, it was wonky and inconsistent at certain parts, yes, but quite frankly, it didn't affect my opinion of it all that much. It made the rockets look drunk as fuck and quite dumb, which they are, so that's accurate enough. What the fuck were they drinking that led them to believe they could take on an E4 member...

Will, MIGHT have been a recent addition to the E4. IDK. Of the E4 still kinda makes sense, since he's the Champion of the E4 and was an E4 member himself. Either that or Team Rocket's behind the times.

So....Episode 4. I feel as if the time limit works best on episodes like this and episode 2. It can feature a small storyline just fine and it did it well, instead of focusing on battling and leaving us unsatisfied. The animation was wonky at certain parts, but more so funny wonky. The grunts looked hilarious and I feel like that's more of a positive here, since the rocket grunts are jobbers at their core. They're also trying REALLY hard to make Dragonite a badass because jesus christ, just look at him. I also liked Gold's cameo here. It seems to be a slight change from the canon HGSS storyline, in which Gold is the distraction and has most of the rockets battle him, but it's implied he still fought Petrel. Speaking of Petrel. I AM SO HAPPY THEY SHOWED PETREL INSTEAD OF ARIANNA. He's the best Rocket Admin tbh. I enjoyed it a lot more than Episode 3, and I hope they have more of these kinds of episodes. Sad they didn't show Silver here though. Hoping they still show him in one of the next 2 Johto episodes.