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NEWS: Pokémon I Choose You! Anime Film's Trailer Shows Ash, Pikachu's 1st Meeting

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It was never an accident that Ho-Oh was in the first episode. It was to drum up hype for Gold and Silver, which released a little under 2 years after the anime debuted,

Pierrot. wrote:

Agreed. It would have looked awful if they hadn't.

The snark went over your head.

This is strange for two reasons one being the fact that to my knowledge was never stated as the reason Ho-Oh showed up in the anime, two being the fact that since this happened the Pokemon anime no longer features Pokemon in them from games that have yet to be announced or shown until after the fact.

In other words it still looks like someone on the anime staff came up with an unusual pokemon that no one at gamefreak thought up and they just chose to go with it.

BadNewsBlues wrote:

This is strange for two reasons one being the fact that to my knowledge was never stated as the reason Ho-Oh showed up in the anime, two being the fact that since this happened the Pokemon anime no longer features Pokemon in them from games that have yet to be announced or shown until after the fact. In other words it still looks like someone on the anime staff came up with an unusual pokemon that no one at gamefreak thought up and they just chose to go with it.

The anime has cameoed Pokemon prior to their generation plenty of times, actually. Togepi, Bursyamo, Nymphia, and Magearna to name a few off the top of my head.Maybe Onvern too, I can't remember when Pansy first showed it off, but an often used hook to get Satoshi to the next region was introducing a next-gen Pokemon and telling him where its from.

-Stuart Smith

Hmm, maybe we will find out why Ash is still 10

It was never an accident that Ho-Oh was in the first episode. It was to drum up hype for Gold and Silver, which released a little under 2 years after the anime debuted, and were presumably revealed to the public some time before that. The reason it's so much more prominent here is simply because we know it's actual design now. Also, Ho-Oh has had one other appearance in the anime, appearing again to Ash after his 2nd(?) loss at the Battle Pyramid during Battle Frontier.

In fairness, I think their argument to me was that G/S hadn't been announced when Ho-Oh appeared, whereas others like Blaziken and Kecleon from R/S, etc did appear in preceeding seasons only after their games were announced and/or released.

Although, now that you mention it, I think the release of Magearna's movie, or at least the initial teasers and trailers did preceed the announcement of S/M. This may have also been the case with Zorua/Zoroark, Lucario and May's Munchlax now that I think about it, possiblly as well as others. While Ho-Oh was by far the longest between anime and game appearances, this is a practise that does still seem to happen. Maybe Ho-Oh wasn't designed to get people hyped for G/S in particular, since the release was still a ways off, but it was certainly enough to hype the possibility of a sequel with a new, very specifically designed Pokemon.

In fairness, I think their argument to me was that G/S hadn't been announced when Ho-Oh appeared

The anime has cameoed Pokemon prior to their generation plenty of times, actually. Togepi, Bursyamo, Nymphia, and Magearna to name a few off the top of my head.Maybe Onvern too, I can't remember when Pansy first showed it off, but an often used hook to get Satoshi to the next region was introducing a next-gen Pokemon and telling him where its from.

-Stuart Smith

Here's an ancient announcement of the anime that's so old they don't even have any actual info on it ("It appears that Red will be the main character"). See which Pokemon they use to represent "Pokemon 2"?

There wasn't really much of hook though where Ho-Oh (and Togepi who I forgot about) were concerned since we didn't really know about their being other regions at that time and had no reason to think so.

With all those Gen 1 pokemon you'd think Ho-Oh was a gen 1 holdover.

But that's the thing, we did. "Pocket Monsters 2" had been announced for over a year at the time Togepi first appeared in the anime.

There was originally 190 Gen 1 Pokemon planned instead of 151 (those empty slots are apparently the cause for the infamous Missingno. glitch). Possibly some or all of the other 39 were used as Johto's Pokemon.