Pokemon Journeys was truly the Pokemon anime saga of all time

It's kinda sad when one of the best episode in Journeys is the conclusion to Lillie's story from Sun and Moon. That is a 10 out of 10 episode.

Journey's not _that_ bad, but for Ash's last adventure, it's definitely very disappointing that we didn't get stuff like Ash rematching the trainers that defeated him in the league, or the run back against those trainers including champions like Cynthia with past pokemon like Infernape and Greninja. We could've had the ultimate Ash team every fan has battle board and dreamt up from their childhood.

I think chloe had a good potential but they wasted it. My biggest problem with her is her relationship with Ash. Chloe have referered him as a friend multiple times but they never interact or talk. Its always akward when theyre together

The time has come.

Like Zac said: It's not about the destination, it's about the journey...a journey that nearly became a LOST CAUSE if it weren't for the positives countering the negatives.

I honestly think these five points could have made journeys GREAT 1. Introduce project mew since the start 2. Have goh catch less pokemon, and have those pokemon be somewhat developed. He needed a solid six pokemon team (Cinderace, Intellion, Grookey, Scizor, Flygon and Golurk) 3. Team Rocket should have had an arc in the show where they wanted to quit team rocket and have Ash and Goh help them fight back against Giovanni 4. Have Goh research his Pokémon more in the park, thus adding more to his character while focused episodes on the Pokémon he has in the park. This is the best opportunity to explore the craziest dex entries from the games in the anime. 5. Have Goh have fewer instances of random catching of multiple Pokémon during any episode, and have focused episodes where he forms an emotional bond before catching or spends the episode to battle before catching. He does have these episodes (Flygon, Cubone, Sobble and absol)

Journeys was definitely a wild ride. It had a lot of missed opportunities like Ash not bringing back older mons to interact with his Journeys team more often, wrapping up loose ends, focusing on Galar, or development to bring characters' arcs to a satisfactory conclusion. I'm not going to lie, a lot of the series just didn't work out well because they didn't take full advantage of the around the world concept and didn't plan ahead to flesh out plotlines like Chloe's, Project Mew, or Ash's early PWC run. Instead we got stuff like...blue pokemaniacs. But for what it was, it celebrated so much of the anime's history by bringing back a lot of older characters we wouldn't have ever gotten to see otherwise! Without it, we might have never gotten to see PEAK with Ash vs Leon in the biggest battle we've ever seen in the entire anime Journeys is a series about appreciating how we get to our destination - from the smaller things in life like spending time with your friends to support them to the trials and tribulations we go through until we finally climb our way to the top. Not all of it is good, and we'll fail sometimes, but that's what makes success even sweeter when we finally attain it.

25 years and almost a thousand Pokémon later, the final climatic battle still came down to Game Freak's golden boys, Pikachu and Charizard..

I can never forgive them for giving us little to none of Serena, May and Max

Journeys deserves major credit for making people actually like Iris. That's not something to scoff at when you consider how many people hated her before that

"The destination wouldn't matter if the journey didn't happen." So for all the big W's and L's the series or the anime as a whole had, they deserve to be worth remembering by...

I honestly feel like Chloe was a lost cause from the start,because if she didn’t become a researcher like her dad and became a performer people would still be unhappy with that cause of how often it happens to pokegirls.and I also feel that battling would not really fit her

“A new one on the horizon” I see what you did there Zac

Pokemon Journeys was very mixed series but for me I manage to enjoy it when it was good. Goodbye to Ash and Pickchu ❤ Hope to see you again someday!

What I hoped would happen in Aim to be a Pokémon master is that Giovani would have Team Rocket (All of them, not just the trio) attack Oak's lab and try to steal all of Ash's pokemon. Since Ash is now the world champion Giovani would see profit in his Pokemon. Then they would be able to steal some of them, and kidnap Ash it the process and take him to their HQ. And who knows, maybe all of that would make the Jessie, James and Meowth have a change of heart and finally turn on Team Rocket and help and rescue his pokemon.

One of my favorite things about this series was the chemistry between Ash and Goh. Sure they had opposite personalities, but I couldn’t get over how most people hated Goh due to his way of catching Pokemon.

Even tho Journey's has some ups and downs, I like the series yeah I know it weird overall but it's sad to know that this is Ash and Pikachu last time in the anime. Thank you Ash and Pikachu for everything!

I hate how they screwed up Mewtwo. They could've have a two parter where the first part is the adventure to him, then part 2 can be a full 20 minute battle.

A while back I got to meet Jason Griffith and he he said recording these last couple of episodes was kinda emotional because of it being the last time he’ll get to voice Cilan.

Journeys was a pretty good series in Pokémon. It had some ups and downs, but overall, it was nice to see some old companions and characters to this series and a perfect send off to Ash's journey In the end, I enjoyed it

Going From XY anime to Sun and Moon anime felt like taking a nice vacation after taking on THE BUSY SEASON at work. Which makes absolute sense given how intense the XY anime was, how structured it was, how mature Ash was, how insane the finale was. We needed a bit of a cool down....Meanwhile going from Sun and Moon anime to Journeys anime felt like going on an extended vacation, and getting more lost than Leon would in Sword and Shield. I should note, it isn't all bad. It certainly had some high moments. And in the end, it doesn't even matter because Ash Ketchum now has that WORLD CHAMP DIFFERENCE BABY.

Hoping it's not an April fools joke Update: glad it's not an April fools joke

jn had so much room to be the best series. sucks it couldnt be more than it is. i feel like it started getting better a quarter in the series and his pokemon started getting major development.

The Best way to end the Pokémon anime would be a battle between Ash and Giovanni, to defeat the entire Rocket Organization, with the support of the masters eight and an ultimate Team that you mentioned before.

Great review zac, felt like you were one of the few that could look at the series with a critical view instead of being blinded by nostalgia or salty hatred. Now waiting for the top 10 journeys' battles!

Zac doesn’t understand the deep narrative and story set up the handy man Plusle and Minun episode offers.

The journeys ends today ❤

Rip Ash Ketchum Hope To See Him Pikachu & All His Pokémon One Day

One of my biggest issues is the fact that Ash’s Pokémon in journeys got a few episodes of development and then were shafted unless they needed to battle. Except Lucario, and Pikachu of course. Like Dragonite, it was his first catch! Then it got like two main battles before doing nothing until getting swept by Rihan and his Flygon.

Ain’t no way they don’t have an Ash cameo somewhere in the next series.

in regards to May, Ive always wanted to know if she won the johto grand festival or not, remember in her return in diamond & pearl she was shown to have 3 johto ribbons, i know her voice actress was unable to come back but heres an idea: they couldve had Norman return as one of Ash's world coronation series opponents(pre master class), I think Max mentioned during advanced that Norman is strong enough to be an elite four member so it wouldve fit perfectly and from there he could've mentioned May and her endeavors

They had so much potential with Aim To Be A Master. The fact they didn't use it to properly wrap up Ash's story is quite sad

They did ash dirty. They had every power to make journeys or aim to be a Pokémon master the best series. Their laziness making the series bad

I enjoyed Journeys for the most part, but one thing I can't forgive is how little they covered Galar. It was my favorite recent region and I was looking forward to see Ash traveling around and meeting all the new pokemon and people. But Galar barely had any real time to shine!

👍 Fanservice/Continuity (when made it right) 👍 Yuki Hayashi 👍 Some good battles 👍 Unpredictability 👍 Some decent small arcs 👎 Way too episodic 👎 Way too fillery 👎 Shallow fanservice 👎 Choppy powerscaling 👎 Lack of screentime and interactions in Ash's team 👎 Subpar animation 👎 The way Legendary/Mythical are handled 👎 Huge missed oportunities overall - No reserves being the biggest of them 👎 Goh (everything about him. A co-protagonist shouldn't exist in Ash's final season)

One thing to notice is that people expected ash to bring his old mons back in the masters 8 but from the view of the writers, if they did Ash VS Alain then everyone wanted to see the rematch of Greninja and MCX. But if they did so they had to do it in every battle. Some people would be disappointed as the mons they wanted to see might not appear and would be angry. The point also was to highlight Ash's journeys Mons. Hope people understand what I mean. Peace. Great vid btw.

Can you please do a massive video ranking all eight Pokemon anime series from worst to best? I feel like that would be a great way to conclude your reviews of the “Ash Ketchum Era.” You could also do a top 20 Pokemon anime episodes or top 20 Pokemon anime moments.

What I missed from Ash is his training after everytime he lost a gym battle, he tries to create a new strategy and really hypes me up if it succeeds in the battle. The one thing for me that will really make him the Pokemon Master is if he defeats Tobias and Mewtwo. I also pity Team Rocket since they have never beaten Ash at least once, and that they were the de facto companions of Ash from the very beginning.

You should've covered the part where Pidgeot returned. I know it was just a short cameo appearance. But it's an iconic moment in my opinion. The best return of any Ash's Pokémon

That filler introduction had me rolling! Good change over! I do agree with everything you said here. There was so much wasted opportunity in the final run for ash and filler was not needed it made the whole series feel rushed and boring

I think you did a really good job of summing the series up. It’s frustrating, I could rant and rant about all the things Journeys did terribly, and yet I can gush about so much that I absolutely loved and never thought we’d ever see. The big draw backs for me are lack of cohesion between episodes and lack of development for Ash, and Goh’s, Pokémon - when I’m thinking of how to improve the series, it amounts to addressing those two things. The failings of Journeys made me grow to appreciate BW more - I still think Journeys is better but I think it’s funny how that worked out. But, yeah, good review Zac - you said pretty much everything I would have said

I must confess in the matter of this series: I really detest Pokémon Journey, and honestly, I don't think I can handle watching this because: A). I don't agree with how the character Goh is portrayed in the series, especially with him catching way too many Pokémon which is very insulting. Even if he does have some redeeming qualities, it will never change the fact that I despise his presence. B). It's a shame to know that Chloe Cerise did had a potential to be a solid character in her own rights, but sadly at the end of the day, her story was cut tragically short with not much character development arc. C). I can not agree or even accept some of the Pokémon Ash catches, simply because it doesn't make any sense or (in my opinion) come off as questionable. Finally, the idea of the whole series being episodic with some unwanted fillers feels frustratingly counterproductive, and as for those promises of Ash having a rematch with some of his rivals that he lost to especially Tobias? What rematches against his rivals? All in all, I have no desire to ever watch it's series on Netflix (can't stand that video streaming service) and I'm not really interested on ever giving the new protagonist and their new Pokémon a chance in Pokémon Horizon.

The series is definitely not for everyone, but I did enjoy it from time to time! Wish it didn't have as much filler as it did in the beginning tho 😭

The two in ones didn’t take advantage of the format to show the same time period or sequence of events from the POVs of two characters or sets of characters, which could have spiced it up and made rewatching more rewarding to spot where the two stories intersected. Instead it was used for the comic relief storylines that couldn’t be stretched over 22 minutes (and to be honest barely got to 11 minutes worth of material).

What should've happened is the episode with Ash's losing steak before the Goh Pikachu episode, then have the rematch with Bea after.

Looking back, I really wish they’d removed most of the filler and instead of aim to be a Pokémon master, they waited a while and made a final season for Ash instead, one pretty much designed to go out on possibly an even bigger bang than the masters 8, and that’s team rainbow rocket Like, come on, you can’t tell me that doesn’t have potential. The first couple episodes would explore Ash’s life as world monarch, and have him questioning what being a Pokémon master means, have Ash go to other regions to stop evil team leaders he’s seen before and their legendary Pokémon (while he questions wtf is going on), finally have a proper confrontation with Giovanni, maybe the main team Rocket trio finally quits for good and conclude a redemption arc? And tie up some loose ends with some episodes in between I know that’s kind of a big ask, but I genuinely think they could’ve done that, it would go to show just how far Ash has come and just how powerful he is now. That’d be pretty fire

Pokémon Journeys is an interesting series to analyze. It may have a lot of lows, but it’s highs are too great to dismiss it and all in all the series turned out well. There was some great fan service, the concept’s great, and I actually liked the new characters I give it a 7/10 overall, heavily flawed but good overall

24:40, It's not all bro. How can you forget Arbok and Wheezing bro? They are OGs. I literally cried so much as a kid when I saw that episode. And still to this day get emotional rewatching it.

What if the proper conclusion for Ash is saved for a movie? We can have a 2 hour movie where Ash meets Liko and discovers that the roots of the vines attacking Kalos are in either Area Zero or one of the DLCs. We can even have a cool scene where Ash Greninja returns with Zygarde.

I can’t be the only one who was expecting Chloe’s Eevee not evolving to be because it was going to Gigantamax. It seemed so obvious. Nope. It was SIDEQUEST MATERIAL. Bummer.

That "no destination line" is basically my feelings about the whole Pokemon anime. This is why I stopped caring. I had no high hopes for this anime anymore because it's a merchandise driven show that panders more to kids not meant to be taken seriously at All, and I wish more people would realize this.

To be frank, the episodic nature really hinder a lot of the pokemon interactions for ash and his team, which didn't help them at all

We had a good run... Now it's time for a new adventure.

This is how I would write Aim to be a Pokémon master. Gary asks ash what it means to be a PM. Ash doesn’t know and oak approaches him. he says that he has people that he wants him to see. Red and blue. Pokémon masters. I hoped this series would try to introduce them. Ash try’s to challenge red but he rejects him. So the group explores and ash learns what it means to be a master. Ash truly bonds with Pokémon. But their is one more thing. To be a master you have to be strong as well. All of ash’s companions come to watch his final battle. He battles red and it’s a draw. Red says that ash is a master but ash doesn’t want to stop traveling. So ash gets a new outfit similar to his old ones and taking inspiration from reds. And that’s how I would write the end of ash’s story. Him still traveling the world with him and pikachu.

There was also something else that was wasted on Chloe's Eevee; the whole evolution thing. During her debut Eevee was being tested with evolutionary stone, but unlike most Eevees where once they touch a stone they would evolve, Chloe's Eevee didn't. And they never try to figure out why. What makes this more tragic is that they could've easily answered this question within an episode or two. Chloe's Eevee can Gigantamax. Anyone who's played Pokemon Sword or Shield would know that if Pokemon like Pikachu, Eevee and Kantonian Meowth have the ability to Gigantamax they lose their ability to evolve. Chloe, and to an extension the scientists that were studying this strange Eevee could've learned the true reason why she couldn't evolve if they just had an episode focusing Chloe's Eevee triggering a Gigantamax. Maybe have her be one of the Pokemon that were infect by Chairman Rose's actions and become the giant fluffy fox. But nah, let's not do that and instead just have episodes where Chloe and her Eevee interact with trainers that have an Eeveelution, and then just leave her out of many potential and important development.

I miss ash I used to watch the Pokémon anime on KZfaq and my love really grew for it I hope we see ash again one day in the future 😢

Chloe what a garbage companion. I miss early journeys Chloe where she was sassy and she always had Yamper with her, then she caught Eevee and became an pokégirl with another Eevee but worse. Her Eevee doesn't evolve I thought the anime was gonna show Gmax Eevee, but no just unnecessary filler journeys moment...

Thank you for all your incredible and deep dive reviews of different seasons, wathed all of them today in one breath, great work!

Journeys was a lot of fun, but I just wish that they actually explored Galar and all the new characters and Pokémon. Sword and Shield had tons of wasted potential that would have made Journeys so much better, like adding Hop's character arc and introducing Bede and Marnie early on.

Pokémon Journeys was a episodic mess, but it was still a joy of a ride watching episodes daily (expect Aim to be a Pokémon Master and the many breaks between The Masters 8). I expected much more with the returning companions and Pokémon, it was still cool seeing them return. Although I wasn't there to see Ash's journey start, it was still a fun journey following Ash and Pikachu, and it's sad to see him go. Ash's chapter is finished, but let's hope that the next series does him justice with the next characters being his predecessors as the new and fresh protagonists.

I wish Ash's Pokémon had their spinoff series, as well as his companions... Like another Chronicles. That way, a lot of those characters can get more proper development away from Ash and even some potential closure. Heck, I even wrote two fan-fics that can relate to such these kind of stories. It would be fascinating to see the possibilities of who all could return.

I heartily agree with the 2 in 1 episodes being more like silly antics with Spongebob and Patrick -_- ...

This was the first series I watched from week to week, I mean I was only 9 when it came out in 2020 but I still loved the show, it was a perfect ending to the best anime ever, I recently just watched every Pokémon episode and I think it’s fair to say he truly became the best like no one ever was, I’m sad his journey is over but Don’t be sad because it’s over, be happy because it happened Goodbye Ash

I swear in the new series if they have Goh or Chloe before Ash and do the same thing about meeting Ash with him being the world Champion and everything and hype it up then have him show up out of nowhere I’m so down 😞

If you think less and just chill and enjoy the journey, it is a good series. I'll watch a better shonen if I want an intense/perfect story

I've known you from childhood well into adulthood. Through ups and downs. I will cherish the lesson of never giving up. I will miss you terribly, Team Rocket

The problem with Goh wasn't his character. The problem was his development. The way he caught most Pokémon were rushed.

I mainly grew up with Indigo, Best Wishes, and XY, but I'll miss this show. P.S. Liko is NOT Ash's daughter.

I'm good with burning down about at least 80-85% of this series and the rest in needing heavy renovations. And dropping Goh from a main protagonist to very minor recurring character at best to not existing preferably. To also nerfing Leon hard, like a steel toed boot to the nuts hard, definitely one of the worst champions I've seen. I also feel the whole show could have ended with DP or preferably XY in winning either league as I see it.

Despite its many many flaws I quite enjoyed Pokémon Journeys. Originally I was gonna stop watching the Pokémon anime after Sun & Moon but as soon as more characters starting returning like Gary, Iris, and more it made me want to watch it again and I'm glad I did. Dawn, Gary, and Paul's return are some of my favourites. It was great because while I was in Japan last year I got to watch the conclusion to Ash vs Leon live. It was so epic to see this character I've grown up with finally achieve their goal. Not just winning a league but becoming number 1.

We had high expectations for Journeys giving us closure on the storylines for *many* trainers and Pokémon. Most of the reunions we were hoping for didn't happen, and the ones that did were a waste.

another missed opportunity with Goh bringing Porygon back to the anime... there is even some great fanart out there with this idea

Videos uploaded on April Fools Day are always a gamble.

COVID really put a damper on the series overall, but if this was gonna be his last journey, they should’ve absolutely pulled out all the stops. All his old pokes. All his companions old rivals. An actual climb up the ranks and not that bs where he ranked down then back up off screen. The list goes on. The gist is we should’ve seen EVERYTHING.

Thank you for your reviews! (: I started following your channel just as you started doing Journey's. I'd just finished watching all your other big review videos, but once I ran out, Journeys started up! Watching the full episodes of the show... was kinda slow and unenjoyable honestly, but watching your reviews was a great way to stay up to date and hear about it from start to finish. (: I hope you have fun watching and reviewing the next series if you choose to do so - I'll be sure to keep watching. :3

Another great review as always bro! This series definitely was mixed with super highs and super lows. But overall very enjoyable despite the controversies and at times awful decisions. I liked, the emotion in the series was strong, but definitely had poor writing imo.

I do hope that Ash makes some sort of cameo and reference.

What if Chloe actually was a companion for Ash and Goh. Have her at first try to join the World Coronation Series with Ash and when it doesn’t pan out for her, have her try Goh’s thing and when it doesn’t pan out for her, she decides to choose her own path to becoming a coordinator. Also have her catch more Pokémon than just Eevee

The ending was great cuz it was to reinforce that Ash’s journey just will continue. The last episodes show him being the Pokémon Master he wants to be. And I will never understand why people want him to catch a legendary. Like it was never going to happen. And I’m glad it didn’t so the little fan boys could cry more!

Journeys has its moments, but its flaws really dragged it down for me, especially when it came to the episodic nature, Goh, and Galar's treatment.

Journeys had the amazing ideas, but executed them extremely poorly. 😐

I don't care what you anyone says. Chloe is a better companion than goh ever will be. Not only did Goh abandon Ash when he was needed the most, but he also didn't even attempt to catch Mew, which was his main goal. He went from playing pokemon go in nearly every episode to not even doing much in the project Mew. Worst companion in Pokemon history. Fight me

The weirdest thing about Journeys is we don't talk Dynamax 😅 the main phenomenon of the series

Despite all of journeys ups and downs I can still confidently say this is one of my favorite pokemon series (Journeys team=best team)

Of terms of how NOT to write an ending, the ending does a good job of that. For instance we waited for 26 years…26…..YEARS for Ash’s dad. We even got the alternate timeline with his dad as a focus…..and we never found out?!?!?!?!? This is NOT okay and a big FU to the fans. This is just one of the MANY issues I have with it.

Honestly they could've done this had the series start with Ash traveling through galar and facing each gym for the galar league meet go in episode 2 or 3 to introduce the project mew and have Chloe travel along side them. Once Ash finished the galar league he hears about the pwc league like battle frontier compete in that whilst still having episodic episodes

Would love to see a ranking of the Aim to be a Pokémon Master episodes

Didn’t Jessie catch chewtle too?

6/10

The thing I hate th most about journeys is that they have build up 4 to 6 legendaries that they could have given Ash but they gave him 0 those are Lugia, Ho-oh, Latias, Mewtwo and even Zacian and Suicune

Best girl Dawn 💙

Even though Ash, Goh, and Chloe was controversial, at least as a trio, I really like their interactions together.

I do think Galar got shafted a little not having Ash catch a full team of Galar mons, and not showing off all the Galar characters from the games

Here is just a quick list of things I liked and didn’t like from Pokémon Journeys Liked: - the concept of the Masters 8 - Ash vs Leon and Ash vs Cynthia - Returning characters and Pokémon - Ash - Animation - His team - there are more things I liked about this series, just can’t think of any on the top of my head . Things I didn’t like: - Goh and Chloe were just the worst - Way too much filler - Episodic and Lack of focus - Journeys team not being given proper development - Not that much Galar focus - This being Ash’s last series, if they showed me this is what they wanted this too be his last series, I would have laughed, cause no one would be that stupid. But they were.

Pokémon Journeys is a series that had so much potential to be the very best, only for it to end up being the most lackluster one with a few good moments. Like Journeys being episodic at the beginning because of the time slot is understandable, but once it got into a better one, they still decide to be episodic. It took until episode 37 for Ash to meet his old friends again, who were from Alola, the last series. It took until episode 65 for another old character to return. You can tell the writers had some good ideas but they never lived up to their full potential. For example, Goh wanting to capture every Pokémon was their idea for why Ash and Goh would travel between the 8 regions, but it never felt like Goh was any closer to capturing Mew. It wasn't until episode 68 that Goh actually had a way to progress towards his goal, with Project Mew, but that also never lived up to its full potential. Chloe not knowing what she wanted to do was a good idea for a character arc, but I think the issue was the writers didn't even know what she wanted to do either. Once she got Eevee, I think the basic idea was for Chloe to Gigantamax Eevee, but I don't think they knew how to get her there. I think her arc was cut short and they just scrap it, making her entire character arc pointless as it never got a proper ending. The World Coronation Series was their way for Ash to battle old characters from the previous series and to battle the new Galar Gym Leaders. Ash only ended up battling 4 Galar Gym Leaders, Bea, Opal, Marnie, and Raihan. They could have had Ash battle more Galar Gym Leaders, but they rather had Ash battle nobodies. Ash's rematches weren't that much better, he only had 3 rematches with Korrina, Iris, and Volkner. I think fans would have rather had Ash rematch people he lost to like Flint or Alain, instead of characters we already seen Ash defeat. It was also the perfect time for Ash to use his old Pokémon to battle against Trainers across the world, but instead he used a team that barley had any development that wasn't named Lucario. Finally their is Galar. I have no idea why Cerise Laboratory wasn't located in Galar. At least if it was there, we would have seen more Galar Pokémon and characters, but nope, we have stick with same old Kanto. Before I watch the series, I thought Goh and Chloe were from Galar, especially because they showed Goh with Scorbunny, and Chloe with Yamper. Ash also barely used Gigantamax in battle. It wasn't until episode 99 where Ash finally used Gigantamax again in battle since episode 13. That is so bad, especially because it's main gimmick of Gen 8 and they gave Pikachu a Gigantamax form only for Ash to use it twice in the whole series. At the end of the day, I'm just disappointed at the missed potential of Pokémon Journeys. Here's hoping Pokémon Horizons can learn from the mistakes of Pokémon Journeys.

A new series on the horizon. Pokémon Horizons 😂

Pokemon journeys have a lot potential but a lot of things that happens with this series cause it miss opportunity this series could have. The understaff at OLM and them doing 9 show's at the same time did show the production of journeys. Blame on the OLM highers up for that one, when they moved most of the staff to different show's. covid 19 screwed everything over for production time. Episodic storytelling because that stupid Sunday timeslot and they could've stop that after moving to Friday slot. But nope that didn't help either due by exces or main director. It didn't help that they rushing trying getting journeys done before SV game's launched on Nov ( which at the end SV game's were best fast selling switch game for 3 day's which they didn't need the anime to promote it on the same day as the game's launched at all.) (Until tears of the kingdom could likely beat Pokemon SV weekend launched) Which they may gotten more time to finish up journeys and APM. Started working on horizon series.

One of the biggest problems of Pokemon is battles being won/lost off screen to get through the episodes faster

I enjoyed it, despite its many, *many* flaws! 🥰