Did you boomers really go crazy about this show?
>>215299252Boomer soccer moms tried to get Pokemon cancelled from tv. Boomers hated anything fun kids enjoyed
>>215299252I'm a millennial so I can't help you
Are zoomers purposely incredulous about everything? Is it some sort of mental illness?
>>215299365if you can't tell these threads are made by boomers you are retarded
It was a different time, free to air television and cartoons were very rare. $5 card packs to show other kids (recognizable) thing. The star of the show was also white back when there was nothing wrong with that.You wouldn't understand
>>215299252no, but the games were kino
>>215299451Brock is a nigger so it's very progressive
>>215299365They never lived in the real world, give them a (slight) break.
>>215299252Millennial Chad here, yeah, I fucking LOVED watching the Kanto Saga of the Pokemon anime. The Kanto Saga of the Pokemon anime was peak kino and peak comfy. Stopped regularly watching by Johto though as I kinda lost most of my interest in the show by that point. I mean there was still some interest there but it was no longer an obsession.
>>215299252I didn't even know it was a show until after I played the Game Boy game a lot.
>>215299365Zoomcuck incels are allergic to being real and being good.
>>215299252>those colorsAh I miss this art direction so mucu
>>215299252If you haven't lived trough the pokemon hype as a kid, you will never understand
>>215299252Nintendo Power sent me a VHS that shilled the anime and it had a live action actress play Ash's mom. Then I got mad that the anime was nothing like the game and that Ash and Gary didn't beat up the Elite Four. Then I went to see the movie and Mewtwo wasn't a hideous monster that hid in a cave.
>>215299252Yes. Pokemania is still real to me GODDAMMIT but the options for anime were also very limited in the late 90s
>>215299295More like they hated anything Japanese due to WWII resentment and Japan dominating the automobile and consumer electronics industry. The way people feel about China now is how boomers felt about Japan in the 80's and 90's.
>>215299804My dad used to say that video games were invented by the Japanese to make Americans lazy.
>>215299670I think everyone generally lost interest after the Kanto season
>>215299804People look at China with Red Scare propaganda playing in their mindPlenty of parents and teachers in the 90's tried to ban Pokemon using a lot of the Satanic Panic shit. I remember my school banned it and part of the note we had to show our parents mentioned summoning beasts to fight for you and they'll only obey if you have the proper relics
Jessie was really hot
fuck you zoomzoom it was kinohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3j7DATYZD4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KCwiRj2c4ksecond gen i could swallow with a big glass of water but anything beyond that it's shit and didn't bother. also mewtwo has an actual backstory and character development"birth of mewtwo" was apparently too dark so they cut it out from the original movie. clones getting killed while he's the only survivor with a deep identitiy crisis>who am i>where am i>what am iyeah the latest shit 100% kiddie stuff but we're talking late 90's here
>>215299847Yep Space Invaders was the first vidya from Japan that became globally popular, followed by Pac-Man. But Pokémon was the first Japanese thing to actually become a multimedia phenomenon among kids, which made boomers incensed.>>215299866I mean yeah there was some of the moral panic left over from the D&D scare in the 80's, but boomers were also afraid that Japan was going to become so economically powerful that it would start buying whole countries and take over the world. You can see this fear depicted in a lot of 80's movies about the future such as Blade Runner and Back to the Future 2.
>>215299739Ash's aunt
>>215299252pokemon is for zoom zooms. if you were born after 1985, you're a zoom zoom.
>>215300141You're just mad cuz you're chopped, Unc
>>215300002>Pokémon was the first Japanese thing to actually become a multimedia phenomenon among kidsmario and sonic came first
>>215299295I think they hated it because it was banal to anyone with a developed brain but captivating enough for a child to serve as a living, breathing advertisement for all of the products that went along with it. A TV show tied in to video games, trading cards, and a mountain of other products was marketing genius.
>>215299252Anything that doesn't venerate Jews frightens boomersThey would have had a different tune if it was Jesusmon: got a catch all the scripture.
>>215299510only real ones know how it felt like to pick between bulbasaur, charmander and squirtleand how it felt bullying those who had pokemon yellow
>>215300219>A TV show tied in to video games, trading cards, and a mountain of other products was marketing genius.It was nothing new at the time. Power Rangers was a bunch of recycled footage from decades ago to sell toys to American children, and it worked right away
I love Misty.
>>215300255You can get all 3 starters in Yellow
>>215300298yellow is the participation trophy version of pokemon red/blue. only made to pander the anime fans
>>215300208The point is multimedia. Pokemon is the undisputed cashcow not only for Nintendo.. but it's the highest grossing media franchise ever.
>>215300275I'm just saying look at the numbers, Pokemon clearly did something different that literally no other media franchise has been able to achieve in terms of money.
>>215300336>yellow is the participation trophy version of pokemonKEK
>>215300002>>215300208Godzilla
>>215300208Mario and Sonic cartoons were not nearly as popular as Pokémon. Most boomers didn't really become aware of Pokémon's grasp on kids until the TCG became big.>>215300275Boomer dads loved Kimberly and unironically didn't know that Power Rangers was originally Japanese lol>>215300288Same and I was heartbroken when her and Jessie's English VA passed away.
>>215299252Boomers REALLY REALLY hated kids franchises in the 90s for some reason. They'd do everything they could to say they were evil or brainwashing them.But no one says anything about the poojeet AI slop we have today like Cocomelon.
Love how there was a big push to claim pokemon as satanic only for the pope himself to actually watch it and go "lol this is totally okay for kids, wtf is wrong with all of you?"
>>215300397Boomers grew up with Godzilla, but he predated TV, so they never got hooked on it. It was actually really hard for foreigners to watch most of the Godzilla movies prior to the DVD era due to licensing and distribution issues. Pokémon was basically a combination of Godzilla, Hello Kitty, Ultraman, and Dragon Quest, so it was destined to be a hit in Japan. FWIW Dragon Ball was also influenced by Godzilla. Godzilla was the original Japanese pop culture icon, so a lot of what they make is descended from him. iirc the first giant robot "mecha" depicted on film was Moguera in The Mysterians, and the first one on film to be remote controlled by humans/aliens was Mechagodzilla.
>>215299295everything foreign to the was considered satanic. I remember one newspaper review from the movie 2000 which stated the fire pokemon Moltres was “a creature constantly dripping blood”
>>215299295In hindsight they were right. Look at the absolute state of 25-40 year old pokemon fans
Digimon was always better.
>>215299670Millennial chad here. Missed so many Saturday morning premieres because I had to go to little league soccer or baseball
>>215299728If you aren’t old enough to remember 9/11 you basically missed everything good
>>215299252As a small child during Pokemania, then I discovered real battle shonen anime and it blew it out of the water. Too kiddy for me to have nostalgia.
>>215300208born in 91 so my memory is a little foggy. I don’t really remember Mario or Sonic being regarded as japanese as much as pokemon was
>>215299252Bro like this shit is mad slow. I tried watching the first season but it felt like a fucking powerpoint presentation. It's crazy uncs used to piss their pants over this shit.
>go on Newgrounds in the early 2000s>games like “Kill Pikapoo” are on the front page>they’re just shot gun blasting poorly drawn Pikachus
>>215300936soul
>>215300619That's because gen X and Millenial parents don't give a shit.
>>215300963And Gen Jones.
>>215300793Trvke>>215300845The cartoons were made by Westerners, so boomers didn't know the IPs were Japanese.>>215300861It's kodomomuke, you're not supposed to marathon it.
>>215300714Godzilla was a fixture of drive-ins and TV creature feature blocks back in the day, to the point where a couple of them even went direct to TV. Boomer monster magazines were dismissive of Japanese monster films, but the kids that read them ended up flooding their polls of "Favorite movie monster" to put Godzilla on top and that really made them reconsider things by the 70s just as Marvel Comics, Hanna Barbara cartoons and Shogun Warriors started being a thing.Distribution of Godzilla movies only really became a problem after Godzilla 1985 since Biollante went direct to HBO and video and the rest stayed in Japan until the Roland Emmerich movie came out. But even now, Godzilla in the American normie sphere is still primarily defined by the Showa era.
>>215300766Digimon was for the weird slow kids in class that grew up to wear trench coats and collect swords
>>215300996>Godzilla in the American normie sphere is still primarily defined by the Showa era.Same for Japan although Tanaka said that the Heisei movies were closer to his true vision of Godzilla.
>>215299252they didn't know anything about it other than that it had "monsters" in the name
>>215300643It’s because a major part of the gameplay and story I guess is evolution and creatures evolving. Boomers seriously believed evolution was a satanic myth
>>215299252Boomers losing their minds over stuff like Pokemon and Harry Potter is why we have all the culture war shit today.
>>215301445Dude they were blaming BOOKS for corrupting the youth one hundred+ years ago. Not even comic books, just the word kind. This is our nature.
>>215299252Sex with Misty
>>215300219>developed brainThen why did boomer hate it?
>>215301493>I wonder what it's like inside those pokéballs. I wonder when you'll shut up and make my dinner.
>>215301445At least boomers were too retarded to use a computer to spew that 24/7 and online social media was more insulated so they’d be laughed out
I grew up in a highly secular, non-white part of california (big surprise) and they still had it out against Pokemon, Instead of calling it satanic, Pokemon was dismissed as a distraction or "gang" related material since brown, Hmong and Cambodian kids kept robbing each other over cards and the games at school
>>215301445no, the "culture war" is due to gamergate and picrel
>>215301648This is true, but part of the so called "woke" shit is definitely gen X and millennials going "fuck you, dad!" at the boomer generation
>>215301689oh yeah I see what you're saying. that's part of it for sure.
nah I can't watch a full episode without cringing
>>215299252Go back to /a/
>>215299252Only original Brock VA episodes & the banned pool episode was a legendary/must have VHS fansub at the time
>>215302048If we’re talking about legendary banned episodes then the Porygon epileptic seizure episode btfo out of all of them
>>215299877mah nigga
>>215301445You're sort of right since the backlash to Pokemon and Harry Potter were what ended the credibility of the Christian conservative movement in America. Prior to that they were flipping their shit over Mortal Kombat and DOOM. Before that it was rock music and Dungeons & Dragons. So you see how after 20+ years of claiming the sky is falling over relatively innocuous pastimes, people stopped caring about what they had to say. That's when homosexuality started to get normalized in the media once people let their guards down.
>>215300255Bulbasaur is the only acceptable choice once you learn the Brock Through Walls glitch but you should chuck your starter in the PC ASAP anyway. It's much more fun to dump your TMs on random shitmons.
>>215299252It will go down in history as one of the very best. Unequivocally and objectively one of the GOATs.
>>215300141Lady Gaga is a zoomer?
Yes, Gen 1 and 2 were called Pokemania for a reason. Great games, great anime, great cards, great designs, etcThen it all fell off a cliff with Gen 3
>>215303246Pokemania ended after Gen 1
>>215303246I regret quitting after Gen 2 in retrospect but I was so burned out in Pokemon by then. I heard that Emerald was actually pretty good.
>>215299252>distinctly higher quality animation than most Western shows purpose built to sell toys after legislation changes>more mature content generally>anime not exactly common>Ghibli films slowly making their way to VHS marketMostly the cards were meatspace lootboxes. Of course they went basedfaced for them like Fortnite skins, when the GameBoy was revolutionary handheld console technology, and you could play with/against your friends with pixel dogfights.
>>215299252Pokemon was great till it go to Johto. Then the series becomes so fucking slow. Event episodes become far and few inbetween. It was just so clearly milked. It's Why pokemania died. Cooler things like yu-gi-oh and dragon ball z were around.
i stopped watching around the time they started going to some islands
For me, it was Ash's mom!
>>215303246>>215303279It ended because of shit like Star Wars, the Sony PS2, and 9/11. Of course it was always going to end at some point, but those are what overshadowed it in 1999, 2000, and 2001 respectively.
Wouldn't say I went crazy, but I found it pretty enjoyable.
I remember being so excited the day this show first aired. We used to record every episode on VHS. It eventually turned into a slog of filler that we all got tired of. Ash never caught any pokemon, never won any battles, no cool pokemon, and the same team rocket shit every episode.
>>215303523>Star WarsLol. I don’t see how they’re related at all
For the few, the proud and the brave Pokemania never ended
>>215303959Prequel era Star Wars was big with kids.
>>215299670>>215299857I don't even remember a non-kanto season. But yeah we all watched it.also enjoyed digimon until one day the art style changed and lost interest there too>>215300766I remember the video game for this (ps1) being one of the worst fucking things.
>Ash has crossdressed on five different occasionsWhat kind of weird show is this?
>>215299252Kanto and the Orange Islands are weirdly memorable. The animation looks really good in standard def 4:3. Also, the jank transliteration and localization attempt adds some interesting flavor to it compared to other shows for the under 10 audience. I'm surprised it continued as long as it did as new games came out. I figured the popularity for the show in particular would've ended after gold/silver and Pokemania in general died around that time in like 2000/ early 2001.
>>215300619Lotta politicians in the 90s earned boomer and silent/greatest gen votes by campaigning against things made for younger people at the time, gen x and millennials, whether that be vidya, music or movies.
>>215299252It was an awesome kids show. An adventure in a modern fantasy world with cool fantastical creatures, and constant fun battles.I don't understand people who watched more than a few seasons before outgrowing it, but for a kid Pokemon was the coolest thing ever.
>>215307102I may be wrong but it was probably around Johto when the original creator left, and the animation began to suffer for it.
>>215306588i crossdressed more than that in two months when living with my friend, Ash only does it once every few years
>>215307405what are you trying to tell us, anon.
>>215307382Yeah I looked it up he left mid way thru Johto, but he kept submitting scripts until the end of Johto. The animation team also swapped to full computer digital animation.
>>215299252Boomers were people born in the 1950s. You're thinking more along the lines of Millennials and maybe Gen X.It was a completely different media environment then. Most people got cartoons from network TV since internet was still mostly dial up and cable was too expensive for most households. Most cartoons were either slapsticks like Looney Tunes, sitcoms like Flintstones or toy commercials like Transformers. Most of the cartoon characters were static and the episodes were fully self contained.At the time Pokemon was something unique. Ash Ketchum was probably the first exposure lots of people had to a shonen lead. He actually had some character development in regards to his skills as a Pokemon trainer and his goal to be a Pokemon Master served as a sort of myth arc which wasn't seen in kids cartoons at the time. Anime was also really niche and not mainstream. Pokemon was the series that changed all that.Pokemon's popularity really got the ball rolling on getting more anime dubbed and aired on tv because all the networks wanted to find the next Pokemon. That's why things like Cardcaptor Sakura, Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon and whatnot all started getting translated after Pokemania. I think the Mewtwo movie was the first time an anime movie got wide theatre release. Before that anime movies tended to be more art house movie affairs that were for mature audiences like Ghost in the Shell or Akira. Pokemon was more family friendly and accessible. I do remember that there were some moral panicking about Pokemon being bad for kids because they were magical or demonic. Back in the day the moral censors were from the Religious Right and parent groups, but it didn't really take. Harry Potter went through the same thing too. I remember that Harry Potter was viewed as the next big thing after Pokemania started dying down.
>>215307522That sucks because I'm not afraid to say that the first couple of seasons or so were beautiful. Some jankiness aside (normal for anime), the way the animation looked had this almost dreamlike quality to it, and when you're a kid that fries your brain.
Her feet must taste like heaven
>>215300759Well most of them are pedos and troons so..yeah
What mode is Misty?
>>215299252>>215299295a. not really, most of the censorship was done in japan or by WB/4kidsb. it was fucking al gore's wife and ted turner pushing for censorshipc. the other big issue was I think it was the older bush, it might have been clinton, reinstated the carter era FCC rules about violence and selling shit to kids in kids shows and this was one of the first big shows after the rules came into effect
>>215306195Based James. Women don't deserve rights.
Pedo thread
>>215300936good times, but yeah even as a kid it did feel like a lot of Front Page material was just variants on that shoot bush game.
>>215307102I honestly lost interest in the Orange Islands. Just wasn't the same without Brock. And speaking of animation, some of the later seasons looked fucking awful.
>>215308902Were they trying to compete with One Piece?
>>215299847Your dad sounds like a retard, since the US invented video games.
I never watched the xy series but people keep insisting it's amazing.
>>215299252Misty awakened my sexuality
>>215299804>>215299866This is a bafflingly stupid false equivalence. Japan is a formal ally and was an avid trade partner back then. The reason boomers hated Pokemon was the reason they hated all entertainment, they were protestant retards that considered anything that distracted you from being a slave as "satanic".>People look at China with Red Scare propaganda playing in their mind>propagandaChina is an adversary of the US, and regularly employs bots to spam online spaces, floods markets with cheap shitty goods to lower costs and deflating prices which causes companies to be unable to compete, lowering their prices, firing employees, and decreasing their profit margins. On top of this they use the Belt and Road initiative to hold debt as blackmail over developing countries and some retarded first world countries, and were also directly responsible for the largest pandemic outbreak in the 21st century.It's not "propaganda" to be wary of China, you stupid fucking cunt.
>>215303246>great animeHave you gone back and watched the show? It was hilariously cheaply produced and shoddy. It was simply fun because there was nothing else like it on at the time.
The Pokemon anime was nice during Pokemania up to about the second movie. It very quickly became too formulaic and stale though, even to a kid. Digimon, DBZ, Yugioh, Gundam etc were all much better as actual shows.
>>215299365That's just called acting retarded as OP to bait everyone into replying.
Never cared much for the show or the card game, or the movies. I was and continue to only be a fan of the games.
>>215309093mental illness
>>215299252I was like 13 when it aired and I already thought it was lame as fuck.
>>215309057I rewatched the first season recently and I forgot how many times they showed her in a bikini for no actual purpose to the plot, which tells me just one thing. They knew exactly what they were doing and they did it just because the wanted to.
>>215299252I don't know about boomers but the first season of this anime was wholesome, it's part of the charm of late 90's anime. It was animated by the same studio who did Berserk.
>>215309669I was 16 and thought it was stupid kiddie stuff too. Then one night during summer vacation I was bored and found and just turned on the VCR where my mother had taped a lot of episodes for my much younger siblings (4 and 5). I spent the night watching the whole thing and got obsessed.
>>215299451When I was a kid I thought of Misty as white and Brock as a tan white guy, but Ash was just Ash, (maybe Japanese) but I didn't care.
>>215309050I think it's definitely worth a watch. The animation and fight choreography are definitely at the series peak. I also think it really captured the essence of what Pokemon Contests were supposed to be - basically talent show / dance performances. The last part of the XY series does the best villain confrontation with Team Flare.I think it's available in both Netflix and Amazon Prime since the Pokemon company wants to pump up the new Pokemon ZA game which also takes place in the Kalos region.
>>215299670Was Orange Island season still Kanto? Because while I liked Orange Island I don’t remember watching after that.
>>215299451Everyone else is white because we were watching the western version of the show.In the Japanese version everyone else is japanese, and "Kanto" and other regions are not fictifious countries from the Poke world but actual Japan. He is not travelling the world but just Japan. The first tournament happen in Kanto then he goes to Kansai (Johto). He had some trip around Okinawa before. Hoenn is Kyushu and Sinnoh is Hokkaido.
>>215299252A fifth grader beat me up and stole my shiny bulbosaur when I was in 1st grade, if iever find that man I'll kill him
Please continue posting art for my desktop wallpaper slideshow. Big booty/titty bitches only tyty.
>>215299295Boomers were unironically right about things they expected from millennials, and it's what China did to overtake the West
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>>215299252It was the first anime most of us ever saw. You have to understand, the idea of a cartoon with continuity and serious themes was completely unique to us.We were all used to Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, and The Flintstones.Then this shit came along and it was like crack. Not just the cartoon but a videogame and a card game at the same time. It swept through culture like a tsunami.
>>215299804It had nothing to do with Japan. It was conservatives thinking it was demonic and caused Satanism and all that other crap. They demanded it be banned to protect the children from worshiping Satan just like they did for Dungeons and Dragons. The Pope had to come out to say that he approved of it, just like similar religious leaders had to say Spongebob wasn't causing the kids to be gay. Now they just say stuff is demonic and causing kids to be transsexuals and should be banned for that instead alongside porn and stuff. It's amazing how little has changed in this regard.
>>215299295It was because the pokemon "evolved" and the christians lost their shit over it.
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>>215310181bro we had shows like swat kats and gargoyles and jonny quest airing at the time, shit wasn't that new. but you're right about the games and all that, that's what made us feel like we were a part of something big. like we could all be ash ourselves on our own adventures
>>215299252>>215307102https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZEhV2VXioI... then came the storm...
>gens I-IV>girl trainers in low waisted jeans or short skirts or bikini bottoms>exposed tummies everywhereChrist the art direction for this series was coomerkino. I'm glad this is a billion dollar franchise, they deserve it for knowing what red blooded millennial boys wanted.
>>215303246Correct in a way. PokeMania fell off with Gen 3, though it was still popular.Pokemon itself fell off with Gen 5, despite what zoomers or coping Poketards will tell you
Gen 5 bros WW@
>>215308902>all those ugly companionsThey tried really fucking hard to get you to like and remember Gen 7. I hope nobody fell for it.
>>215310706>WW@Still shitting their diapers.
>>215310969i liked gen 7 a lot i don't get the hate. i get the story was dumb anime slop but there is a lot of good in that gen. hell, just dropping the concept of HM slaves alone makes it way more fun to replay than say gen 6 or 3.
>i liked gen 7 a lot i don't get the hate
>>215311219i accept your concession
>>215311245Of course you accept concessions, you're a fatty that thinks about food and lives to consumes slop.
>>215309927kek
>>215311260settle down, no need to get mad. you could just explain why you disagree with me in a coherent way and not just throw lowbrow insults like a fuming sperg.
>>215311287If you were here 10 years ago instead of shitting your diapers you'd know.
what do they need to do to make Pokémon great again?
>>215311260kek rekt
>>215299252If you weren't there, you'll never know. Sorry zoomer. You missed the peak of humanity. Sucks to suck./thread/
remember summer 16? imagine that but even crazier
>>215301648>gamergateJesus, get a new fake boogeyman you lazy fat commies
Serena is still the best girl
>>215310969Can't believe people like that handholdy fake feelgood garbage gen.
>>215311309i don't care what people said ten years ago. i disagreed with them then too. they complained about it being on-rails and handholdy, but i thought that was more true of gen 6 in every way. i also remember people complaining about how easy it was the first day and then a couple days later there were many threads crying about getting stomped by professor kukui.>>215311370gen 6 and gen 8 are much more guilty of all of that
>>215311400So you admit you're a slop consumer that's just a contrarian, got it.
>>215311409and you admit you have no argument beyond appealing to board consensus and cannot think for yourself. got it.
>>215311427There's nothing to argue, you like shit. Why would I argue with a shit eater?
>>215311443i don't think you can argue with anyone, you just parrot popular board opinions and throw around schoolboy insults, praying some anon will agree with you and fight your battle for you.
>>215311501Even if that were the case, what does it say about you that you fall for it so easily? I post shit, you come running. Shit eater behavior.
>>215311219>>215311245>>215311287>>215311309>>215311400>>215311409>>215311427Alright, alright! Break it up! Break it up!>>215311219Anon, I’m not mad I’m just… disappointed. Soijak replying? REALLY? Come on, you’re better than this. And you wonder why nobody takes you seriously. You can’t have it both ways buddy, you can’t leepic troll but really want people to respect your half assed shit posts>>215311245And YOU don’t think you’re getting off scot free. I mean, this entire thing is just beneath you. I mean unironically, where do you think you are? You should expect people to trash things you like for no reason. Don’t you see you’re just giving him what he wants?*claps hands together*There, now we can go back to a non special ed thread
>>215311687Sorry mom.
>>215299804/threadAnyone who didn't grow up with a Jap-hating parent is too young for this site.
>>215300470>original ash had a central park memorial bench installedtouching
>>215299252From 4th grade halfway through 5th grade, Pokemon was the thing. That summer I could name all 151 Pokemons. But after they released the Gen 2 Pokemons the interest in Pokemon in my year dropped and I don't remember Pokemon even being mentioned after that.
>>215299252dude boomers are not what you think they are, even tough it would be based if 40 year olds would have played pokemon back in the day.but I know "boomer" haha sounds funny word, your generation is even to retarded to use insults in the right context
whys there a solo pokemon board
>>215311776ye i remember gen1 being the shit, and then almost nobody caring about gen2 onwards, altough I got myself a 3ds to play pokemon X on my way to work.
>>215310058*SNIFFFF*
>>215308902Island girls are sexo
>>215299252I’m a Zoomie and watched the Christmas episode all the time on DVD. In fact that’s how I watched most Pokémon episodes
