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The List - 5 Best Pokémon Anime of All Time

The first series was was pretty bad if you look at it objectively. Lots of filler, bad animation where the battles were mostly still screens of Pokemon doing attacks, zero character development for the trainers and Pokemon. The series evolved a long way since those days. Sun and Moon and the new series kind of killed my interest in the anime tho. Didn't like the way it went for more comedic and episodic writing style. But I guess we all grow out of stuff eventually.

Deciding the Top 5 series of Pokémon is like deciding who's urine tastes best among seven or eight men. Callum May ought to be ashamed in supporting a show that seeks to be nothing more than a 20-minute advertisement to sell the games and merchandise, a show with zero vision for its story and characters.

I would suggest that he and every reader read my post in the link below.
animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=4945006

Deciding the Top 5 series of Pokémon is like deciding who's urine tastes best among seven or eight men. Callum May ought to be ashamed in supporting a show that seeks to be nothing more than a 20-minute advertisement to sell the games and merchandise, a show with zero vision for its story and characters.

I guess Advanced was so forgettable it was gorgotten on the poll

Didn't like the way it went for more comedic and episodic writing style. But I guess we all grow out of stuff eventually.

I feel bad for the Gen Z'er that made this list, they obviously were too young to realize that Season 1 is the best series, idc about battle animation or whatever, its the most wholesome 270 something episodes of pokemon.

I would suggest that he and every reader read my post in the link below.
animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=4945006

Callum is using the divisions that The Pokemon Company International has been using for the show these past few years, separating out the seasons of episodes by the generation of games they're based on. They use this branding on the official Pokemon TV app.

I think the biggest appeal to the Indigo League to me though is that it still had a strong sense of mystery to the Pokemon world at this point in the show where we didn't know that much about the world of Pokemon and it was always a big event when a legendary Pokemon showed up. Compared to nowadays where they encounter a legendary in almost every movie and while I'm enjoying the new series it's still kind of jarring to me when Satoshi and Go barely even blink when they meet a Lugia in like the second episode.

For the Sun and Moon, the series was a bit of a more humorous and the story was much more slice of life school-themed story, it also had a lot of pop-cultural references, such as Jojo's Bizzare Adventure, the roles of Megumi Hayashibara she has voiced over the yearS, Golgo 13, and Real making cameo in the episode. Sun and Moon saw the return of Brock and Misty after their long absences, appearing themselves as two-episode guest stars in the 20th Anniversary and again when they went to on Alola. Sun and Moon

Remember the days people used to try to divide the show up between when Misty was on it and when she wasn't? There's now also 9+ female companions after Misty, which also goes to prove Misty could be replaced by any other type of female lead and be just as successful. It's hard to believe there was once a time people thought the fandom wouldn't like any other main girl over Misty, or Misty was "too popular" to be replaced, when all that happened over the last 17 years. May already became more popular than her with most of the original fans in the early 2000's, let alone Dawn, etc. after that.