Thanks so much for watching! Let me know your thoughts on the Ruby and Sapphire era of the Pokemon Anime and which Gen 3 Pokemon was your favorite?

when the world needed him most he returned

This series is an absolute masterpiece

Lucario and the Mystery of Mew really is one of the standout Pokemon movies. I like how involved Lucario is as a character and his connection with Ash, as well as just seeing a playful Mew interacting with Pikachu and Meowth

This is where ash's journey started to pick up for me. I've got the most nostalgia for this series and sinnoh. Adding contest battles made it so entertaining and different from the original series

I always loved how Winona had the shiny Swellow. Taillow was my first ever shiny all the way back in Sapphire, which had evolved into Swellow. Not even a month later, her Gym battle episode aired with *her* shiny Swellow.

Poor students watching Roxxane get her Ground type knocked out by an Electric attack... Learning the wrong lessons that wont work for them cause they don't have plot armor

This is the series where Pokémon found it’s pacing. Gen 3 was a great time for the franchise. I believe the Diamond and Pearl series perfected the pacing presented here, but we gotta give it to Advanced for paving the way for future series like DP, XY and SM. It’s often overlooked how important this series is and was for the franchise

As a "Gen 1er" I appreciate these videos ! Work keeps me too busy to watch the all the animes that came out but these are good to smoke a bowl & relax to, while also catching up on a journey that began when I was a small child & ended as I was a 36 yr old

advanced battle and battle frontier are incredibly nostalgic for me. i remember coming home from school and watching it with my older brother after xiaolin showdown on cartoon network. it was before i could form really consistent clear memories with media so i didn't remember much of it before watching this video, but still. most people grew to love grovyle from mystery dungeon. i grew to love grovyle from advanced battle also jirachi wish maker is the best Gen 3 movie and is one of my favorite pokemon movies period

So glad this new part is finally out, can't wait for gen 4!

The series also showcases Wurmple’s branched evolution by having May’s Wurple evolve into a Silcoon, then Beautifly why Jessie ends up with a Cascoon, which evolves into Dustox and has an episode where their Wurple evolve simultaneously and the two fight over the Silcoon.

Both Lucario and the Mystery of Mew & Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea are some of my all time favorite Pokémon movies. I watched them a ton as a kid.

Thank you so much! I can’t give much but please take this small token of appreciation! Watching part 3 now and I already can’t wait til part 4!

This series is a treat and a trip. Thank you for doing this for us old PokeFans.

Pokemon with Ash was amazing, I will miss them all!

As a kid, Destiny Deoxys was my favorite Pokémon movie...until the Giratina movie released... It also sparked my love for Zombie movies, of all things, due to the movie's aspect of a small group of people surviving in an overrun city.

Gen 3 was where I started watching since my parents forbade me from anything Pokémon related early on in my life. It inspired me to play Ruby, which started me on my own journey of enjoying both the games and the show. I'm really looking forward to part 4, since Platinum is one of my favorite Pokémon games.

Yo ashs corphish is such a gangsta!! Probably one of my favourites of his pokemon

Waiting for these parts to be uploaded as they come out is like when a new gen of Pokémon anime came out, just always exciting and awesome! I love them all!

Hey! Can I just say how much I love these videos of the complete journey of Ash Ketchum. As a fan from the 90’s like you it’s so nice to be able to look back on his adventure and just how much a beloved character like him has progressed over the decades. I cannot even imagine how much work has to go into creating a video this long let alone 8 of them to cover his whole journey! So just wanted to say thank you and keep up the incredible work!

I remember coming home from school every day back in the mid 2000’s and watching Static Shock, Pokemon, YuGiOH, and Jackie Chan. Watching this series has filled me with so much nostalgia and emotion that I haven’t felt in a long time. I’ve looked through your many videos and holy shit dude my brain came flooding back with memories! I loved Pokémon. I still do. My brother and I got Blue/Red, Gold/Silver, and Sapphire/Ruby. We watched the anime up until the end of this season. We didn’t get the new console as preteens and fell off during gen 4 and 5, but when we got jobs we bought gen 6 and 7. I’m glad you have this series going because it’s literally an hour and a half full of dopamine and you explain everything so clearly in all the categories you have. Im looking forward to what happened after I stopped watching the show. Thank you ❤

Brock's return was my favorite moment in the whole region. As a kid it was awesome to see him come out of nowhere and save them

Gen 3 was when I fully got into Pokemon. I used to play Sapphire a lot and even played it on the way to school somedays. It was a lot of fun and soon hopefully I'm going to go back and relive Sapphire again. The anime was also something I watched a lot, but it was around the time the first season of Diamond and Pearl already started. The Advance Battle theme was an absolute BANGER Also, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was a fantastic! One of my favorite movies when I was little.

So this is the season where I dropped out of the series as a Kid. My favorite character was Misty, and since I wasn't able to watch every single episode since i came onto the series a little late and had to rely on inconsistent re-runs the only real plot thread I was able to follow and care about was the relationship of Ash and Misty. I saw the first episode and was able to see how it started, and I watched the second Movie and was able to see allot of the ship, so I just kinda assumed the two would get together and I really enjoyed finding hints of that in the series while watching whatever random thing Ash was doing at the time. Sometimes he had 6 or 7 badges, sometimes he was getting his 3rd, sometimes badges weren't even mentioned but he has a new pokemon I've never seen before! None of that story mattered, all I cared about was how Ash interacted with his pokemon and his friends. Then Ash dumped his old pokemon off and left my favorite friend behind to go on a new adventure, so I just kind of lost interest after Johto. However watching this video kind of makes me sad I did. I think if the younger me had pushed through the changes I think I would have enjoyed this season allot as a kid and got really invested in Ash's new team. I would have loved Ash's Treeko as a kid, from the clips you showed he looked aggressive! But it is what it is. I kept playing the games for a bit after this, but around the time Gen 4 released I was going into middle school and kids around me kind of had the mindset that pokemon was only for little kids, so I kind of just fell out of the series all together due to peer pressure. I completely missed Gen 4 and 5. Then when Gen 6 came out I had just graduated from highschool and had a new group of friends who either never gave into that pier pressure back in the day or just didn't go through it talking about how much fun they where having. It was then that I started really learning about strategies and more competitive game mechanics that I never picked up on as a kid, you know, cause I was a kid. So I picked the series back up with Gen 6 and have been playing the games ever since. So with that being said, I'm especially excited for your next couple videos in this series. I played the Gen 4 remakes that came out a little while back so I have an understanding of what happens in gen 4 now, but I still don't know much at all about Gen 5 other than I think maybe PETA is the bad guy, or something like that. And thats as far as the games go, by this point I was so far detached from the anime I don't know If I've ever even seen footage of the Gen 5 anime. Like I know I've at least seen Dawn and her Piplup before, so I know i've at least seen a few scenes from Gen 4, but I don't know a THING about 5. I'm very excited for you to teach me a thing or 20!

You put so much work into your content. Especially, this series. Feels like there’s a lot of passion behind it. Thank you, for that. I get to relive my early 90’s kid nostalgia through this. There are a lot of other videos, giving the history on the series, but yours is the only one that has kept my attention. Thank you.

words cant describe how thankful I am for this series

The Advance Generation is pretty underrated, it's my 3rd favorite Generation (first two being DP and XY)

I have never realized that the characters had development. I remember Pokémon as a bunch of stand alone episodes that sometimes had plot development. And sometimes suddenly different Pokémon were on the team. And suddenly we had Misty and May. My main complaint about Pokémon was always that Ash said 'We will see each other again!' to everyone he met and in my experience that never happend. How wrong I was. So many returning characters all the time 😂

idk what's worse- having to watch ash's episodic journey in real time, watching the new episode every week, or having to watch it all back to back and having to make a video on it.

I was very eager to hear you talk about Lucario. It's a movie I never got to watch until later in life and I was not disappointed. The ending hits so hard and the cherry-nail on the coffin-top is that it was the last time we got to hear Veronica Taylor as Ash...

YES PART 3

Best KZfaq related dopamine hit is when a creator uploads the next part to a series you forgot you were waiting for.

YES! The long awaited return

30:05 I saw this in the theaters in Japan. Got a special gold coin depicting Meowth in the pre-movie short.

My new favorite playlist to fall asleep to. It's so fun waking up periodically either by my cat, or to get some water and thinking "oh, he's there now" with evolved Pokemon and new badges etc.

I can't thank you enough for this series. I really doubt I would have ever gone back to watch (especially the early seasons of) Pokemon, but it's great to have a condensed version of most of the important events and how they play a role in the story! Much appreciated 🙏

I think that what makes different/stands out about Ash in gen 3 compared to the previous two is that in the first one he was a complete rookie and sometimes trainer that needed to learn how to treat his pokemon, in the second one he's still a rookie but one that at least knows the basics of being a pokemon trainer and in gen 3 he kinda has as role as a mentor to May. A trainer that, like Ash in the previous seasons, starts her journey knowing pretty much nothing about pokemon and that ends up having a rivalry with someone that seems to be more competent than her but that ends up respecting her. In a way, May´s journey parallels Ash's original journey and althought sometimes can end up unnoticed, Ash is the one giving her advice about how to be a trainer (while still having moments where he needs to grow as a trainer). This was a pretty cool video. Really looking forward to watch part 4.

I cannot wait to see how long this series is gonna be. I bet it will be at least 3x longer then the Hey Arnold video and I am here for it

absoloutley love this series the fact that thewre will be one for every party of his journey at some point is so hype

For some reason, as a kid, I loved the episode where Max befriends a Shuppet. That episode stuck with me so much that I always wanted a Shuppet in every game. It’s become my favorite Pokémon for this reason. Loved this era. Onto the next! Love your videos!!!

I'm loving this tour of Ash Ketchum. Thanks Jordan.

Gen 3 was how I got into Pokemon. I got a gameboy advance for my 5th birthday, and with it, Pokemon Ruby. I've been hooked ever since.

Gen three is the best gen in my opinion. Games and anime where so good

I can't wait for the next part to come out this is just gold

This is where I fell of with the series, thank you so much for your thorough walk down nostalgia lane. Looking forward to going through the future generations. Thank you for all of your hard work!!!

Gen 3 is the best to be honest in just nostalgia bringing in so many new people to the franchise. Word of mouth was king and ruby and sapphire was lit as heck!

I’m sure I’ve commented on one of these before but man, thank you for this. I’ll go back to these videos forever

So a funny thing about the Lucario movie. I had dropped Pokemon the series around gen 2 but would watch the movies with no context of why Ash's friends were different people. After Jirachi I was kind of done all together with pokemon aside from the games. Then the Lucario movie came out, which I only got to see because my sister... stole it. I to this day don't know how she walked out of the store with it but she did and we watched the movie. I loved Lucario so much that it became my username for many years to follow and being called Luca for short ended up becoming my actual name upon transition.

being born in 2000 this was definitely my favorite gen to watch every morning before school so i was waiting on this episode specifically. clutch timing as always jordan🤝

I love Ash bringing back old Pokémon during Battle Frontier

Since the Deoxys movie was my first Pokémon movie I was really surprised when in the seventh generation of the anime we had a character similar to Tory. If I had a nickel for every time a kid in the anipoké was traumatized by an alien pokémon when younger and since then was afraid to touch pokémon I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice.

This is where I began my journey with the anime, I remember really liking the new companions and the movies were great (particularly Lucario and the Mystery of Mew; love that movie). Excited to see this retrospective!

Absolutely my favorite generation. Battle Frontier was my favorite series as a kid. Aggron has to be my favorite gen 3 mon

Never kicked so fast on a video in my life, you've got me hooked more than the actual show did

I really hope in part 4 you bring special attention to how genius Ash's battle with Tobias was. Bringing Heracross as his first choice vs Tobias's only known Pokemon, Darkrai, is probably the smartest move Ash makes in any battle up to that point and it impresses me to this very day.

Once again I return to continue my journey down memory lane with Pokemon and Jordan

I hadn't played or watched pokemon in 20 years, I somehow stumbled across your channel, and these have become my new favorite videos I've seen in many years. Thank you so much for making these. You clearly put so much effort and care into them and it really shows, along with your hey Arnold! Retrospective you have joined the ranks of legendary content creators in many people's eyes. Something quite wonderful

When I was a kid, I always thought it was so cool to see a Pokémon use a move that isn’t from its type, like Tyson’s Meowth knowing Thunderbolt.

Love these series, it breaks down on the journey and the relationships Ash had while we were growing up. Can't wait for part 4 coming out

3rd Gen Pokemon was always my favorite. It was just where I was at the perfect age to really appreciate it. The anime, the games, and especially the movies from this era are all really special to me.

I honestly can't wait for the Diamond and Pearl video. The labor day marathon early in that era is when I started watching weekly as a kid, and that era in general with everything happening on the DS is when I got to actually get into the series instead of watching from afar as a kid, with things like the aforementioned anime, the first two mystery dungeons, the second ranger game, and of course Platinum.

I find it very fitting that this Lucario is voiced by Sean Schmell who would voice Lucario in Sm4sh and Ultimate but not Brawl instead being voiced by Bill Rogers, Brock’s second voice. Then when Ash finally gets a Lucario all his own at the end in Journeys, it’s Bill who voices it instead of Sean. It’s like there was this inside joke about who was the better Lucario between the two of them or something.

love this series, almost forgot how emotional some of these pokemon episodes got

This was a time in my childhood where my Pokémon fever caught a second wind; so nostalgic.

Although I’m old enough to have grown up with the first two generations, gen 3 is when I actually got into Pokémon

You rock, Jordan. This series has been nothing short of a delight. 🖤

I loved May and the introduction of contests! Max was also funny, the way he bickered with his sister was realistic to me and I enjoyed watching them (even if some fans find him annoying). May and Drew's rivalry in the Contest circuit was a great thorough-line while Ash was getting his gym badges. And Harley is iconic as a rival too, he's so petty towards a literal ten year old when he really doesn't need to be... Overall I really like this series for the new things it was doing, giving the female companion more of a story arc and journey alongside Ash.

I love all of the R/S movies. They are all so good.

Destiny Deoxys has got to be my favorite Pokémon movie ever. It’s got action, drama, more action, more drama. It’s just fun all around. Love how it gave a personality to Plusle and Minun and my favorite Psudo legend Metagross

Cant wait for part 4 love this series😭

Before i get into this video! i just wanna thank you for making these pokemon videos. they really get me through the workday. you're an awesome youtuber~

I like Aipom coming along to Sinnoh nice foreshadowing for its evolution

This series is truly a gift to humanity ❤

I loved Togepi as a kid and even dressed as Togepi for halloween one year. I remember watching the episode Togepi evolves and leaves Misty and bawling 😭😭😭 ❤

Gen 3 will always be the most nostalgic for me. Leaf Green was the first Pokemon game I bought, and Ruby was the first that i completed. Lucario and the Mystery of Mew to this date is one of my favorite Pokemon movies too. Not to mention, the Advance Battle theme is an absolute bop.

I love these video essays. Thank you and I hope you keep making them. I’m subbing because of these!

I've been waiting for this! I love your video series recapping the anime and generations. Hoenn is where I began to 'grow-out' of Pokemon as a kid becoming a teenager in the mid-2000's. So I'll be super interested to see how the anime continues Ash's journey after Gen 3. Thanks for all your hard work making these videos! It's a wealth of knowledge!

I still remember how haunting the episode with kyogre and groudon was. It kinda reminds me of the beach episode of the first season where tentacruel took over meowth.

I find it neat that Ash actually swaps out his team because it actually feels like how people play Pokemon after a few years. Never got tool deep into this series apart from the odd episode or movie, but if I had I might have been able to learn more about playing well in a gentler way instead of having the Striaton gym pounding me into the ground. While writing this comment, the anime finally clicked for me. It's supposed to be an account of one kid's individual journey that many others could compare their own experiences to.

This is the best ash story line video💯💯💯

Advanced Battle is the best theme song, bar none.

You are an absolutely legend for this series. Thank you so much, beyond grateful!

The Advanced series of Pokemon was actually a series I missed out on due to my "pokemon eeww" phase I went through due to bullying. It took me a while to get back to it, and while I might not have enjoyed it as much as the next series, I'm still glad I watched it. Destiny Deoxys and Jirachi Wishmaker are very memorable to me. I was also a really big fan of the whole thing going on between May and Drew. Love it. Anyway, thanks again for the video, and I am very much looking forward to the next part. It had one of my favorite rivalry arcs.

I'm glad someone else has a soft spot for corphish. He's my favorite Ashmon

Best series on KZfaq, so nostalgic

Finally ~I've been passionately waiting for this

Jordan this series is insane! You’re pumping out these 1.5 hour videos like it’s NOTHING!! And I love every minute. Excited to keep watching each generation as we get into the anime that I really haven’t seen!

Gotta Catch 'Em All!

Love your content! Just wanted to mention that I appreciate the fact that you are literally uploading this like a Saturday morning cartoon!

Can’t believe Ash died 😢

One of the sad episodes of Jessie and James releasing Arbok and Weezing/Wheezing, gen 3 was good for Ash to learn and gain more knowledge

Ash's Treeko is one of my favorite pokemon of his as he grows into one of his best Pokemon

Best series on KZfaq right now! Always excited for the next one ❤️

Much love to my favorite pokemon trainer ! I've watched all of the seasons from Kanto to galar region!

Hoenn is my absolute favorite region

I really thought I was going to know more about the gen 3 anime, but this showed me I dropped off *really early*. That explains why my nostalgia is so much stronger for the Kanto and Johto arcs; I basically watched nothing in Hoenn but movies.

This was the era of the show I remember most growing up, I’d get the previous stuff from blockbuster but this is what was on tv. I remember thinking edgy Treeko was so cool lmao. Edit: and speaking of cool, I also watched the Lucario movie over and over, he was instantly my favorite Pokémon

I am enjoying these. I stopped at beginning of Hone as the only channel that was hosting Pokemon in my country, had been discontinued on TV and have no way to watch these now. You're the next best thing!

can't wait for part 4.