I'M CAPTAIN KIRK

okay, as far as stylised over-dramatised reaction shots go, this one is pretty impressive

Spoiler: big pic

 

ash's mother and horrifying stepfather have returned

 

'woah, it's mum and mr. mime!'
now ash i know you don't like to call him dad in public but it hurts his feelings...

 

episode title: so long, sophocles!
me: oh now don't give me hope

 

this episode is dumb and sophocles is dumb so i'm skipping it

 

also three people have now agreed with that post that's jointly about gender roles and sophocles' name and i am having fun guessing which bit merited the agree rating for each person

 

.... skipping was the right decision the very preview shot for the next episode contains MY SON

M Y S O N

 

m y s o n

 

the very first words he says are 'Lycanroc, show your crimson glare'
sits on the child until he learns to be less emo

 

sunmoon games: IT'S A MYSTERY THAT GLADION AND LILY ARE RELATED. YOU CAN'T FIND OUT UNTIL EEEENDGAAAAMEEE
sunmoon anime: [eight minutes into the first episode where Gladion appears] OH LOOK IT'S LILY'S BIG BROTHER, WHO IS RELATED TO HER, RELATEDLY

 

The fact that Gladion had that stupid emo haircut even as a very small child proves he was always doomed to grow up into the creature he became

 

gotta put your seatbelts on in the evil truck of evil pokemon stealing

even wobbuffet puts a seatbelt on, and i'd think of all the pokemon who'd be fine in a car crash, wobbuffet would probably be top of the list

 

gladion in the games: i hate you and everything you stand for, get the hell away from me
gladion in the anime: I LIKE YOUR ROCKRUFF. GO DO THE AKALA ISLAND TRIAL. I'M GOING TO SMILE NOW.

 

'pokemon base'.
it's baseball. it's just baseball with pokemon. fucking admit it

 

okay the brief interludes into thick-sketchy-line animation for the sporty bits are pretty cool but honestly i wish the show as a whole would stop dropping into random animation styles it's really distracting

 

lana is my perfect daughter

 

i gotta admit, 'ash and friends get picked off one by one in the forest by a mysterious force' is a surprisingly common plot point in pokemon, there's just more characters to do it to this time around

 

both

 

why did brock take his shirt off to mega evolve his steelix. come to think of it, where the fuck did brock learn mega evolution? he didn't come to kalos. actually no wait there is a short where he hangs out with bonnie and clemont isn't there? maybe he learned there.
still pretty sure he didn't need to take his shirt off.

also i guess this answers the question 'which is stronger, z-moves or mega evolution', at least in the case where it's not a super-effective z-move.

 

ah, misty learned it too
what have these fucks been up to since they left?