Is this anime-only bullshit or has there ever been reference of this functionality in any games?I bet you heard the sound effect
>>58296373>Is this anime-only bullshit or has there ever been reference of this functionality in any games?I've literally never seen it mentioned in-game, but I 200% accept the "small ball becomes the big ball" as total canon. It's just such an insufferably slick product design: not just the growth, but the sound design, the pinging when it captures something, the inside being some kind of reflective interior that seems to literally store and convert matter into light. The whole thing is great. I can hardly fathom how Pokemon just hit the ground running with such a perfect and sophisticated "animal capturing device".
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Does the new anime still do this?
>>58296419He's just really big...
>>58296410I agree but for a series designed to sell toys I'm upset there's no way for a proper toy pokeball to exist.>>58296419Thank you anon.
I remember a week or two ago some nigger was trying to argue that no NPCs had shrunken down balls.
It's pocket monsters, a big ball like that is pretty annoying to have in your pocket
>>58296373Poké Balls changing size? Anime only.>>58296420They do it with Rotom Phones. The phones can expand into tablets in Horizons.
>>58296420Journeys did it sometimes, but most of the times the pokeballs appeared big already. The only recent focus of this feature that I can remember is in this SM openinghttps://youtu.be/Pd0YppDJc0Q?t=52
>>58296373It was made up for the anime because Pokeballs are big and they would look too awkward when carried around on a belt fully sized.
>>58297245>that thumbnailSM was fucking cancer.
>>58296373They designed it like that in the Anime so that Ash can throw them like a baseball pitcher.
>carry 6 balls with the same designHow does everyone know which mon is where?
>>58297686there were actually supposed to be transparent so you could look at your Pokémon like gatcha balls
>>58297686they were meant to look like gacha balls, but the anime made them opaque for some reason.
>>58297931The anime made them like that so that it's easier for them to animate.
>>58296410Somehow I knew you'd be here
>got pokeball plus>hefty, vibrates, lights up, has speaker>use it as fidget toy>just beat koga and have lv 100 pikachuI'm going to be sad when I finish lets go pikachu, I fucking love fidgeting with it
>>58299578literal preschooler lmao
>>58299593no need to be jelly
>>58298980I wish the games kept it but Gamefreak will do anything to cut corners besides optimize performance
My preference is the middle ground that PokeSpe went for, never mind them being closer to vending capsules. >>58297931To me the anime design is cool to watch, but doesn't feel "right". The small size is like a fucking Ping Pong ball (40 cm regulation diameter), not substantial enough for a belt mount and too easy to lose. But the bigger size is like a softball, about 12 inches in diameter, easy to throw but gigantic and obviously impractical. To me, a Poke Ball should be a sphere of about 6 inches circumference. Large enough to palm and toss, weighty enough to stand out on a belt, but small enough to be "pocketed".
>>58296373I vaguely recall the original pokemon concept art, the ones with rhydon, showcasing pokeballs shrinking
>>58299856I remember being blown away by the light effects from balls when I first saw Ruby and Sapphire. But I agree, I liked how the balls split totally in half in the Game Boy games and basically compressed the mons in a puff of smoke. Makes a lot more sense than having a tractor beam that defies the laws of physics. Gen 3 and I guess 4 sort of took a middle road, where the balls open up from the ground when releasing Pokemon, the way the anime shows them being caught, to keep the Capsule idea that the split halves would stay on the ground until the Mon was knocked out.
>>58297931Some of the early Hasbro toys came with balls like these, the ones that were repurposed MonColle figures. You could store them in the ball, which had a cool translucent dome and they split in half too. I even had the Mewtwo one which came in a Master Ball. The keychains of the day had their own trigger operated balls that were more like the mini ones of the show, opaque though so I never liked them as .much.
>>58296373Retarded Ashnime only and it looks shit. Every other more official anime doesn't even do this, even, much less the games. The Pokeballs are just always regular sized. They used to be even bigger at all times but technology allows them to be relatively small now.
>>58299979>retardedThe best parts of the Ashnime are the weird holdovers from before Pokemon became a "brand" and they let the staff experiment within the setting.
>>58299998They're not experiments to be creative. They're decisions made to cut production costs. Pokeballs are smaller so you don't have to think about how trainers carry them. They make up a dumb setting where they're slotted in the goddamn belt. Why? So you can hide them while animating the characters. Never have to think about it. It is an anti-creative decision.It's a product of laziness. Something that makes stories less interesting. Having a bit of friction, some difficulties, makes the setting more interesting. It's like having a fantasy setting where all weapons are just magically summoned, without this weapon conjuring part being important to anything. Why? So you can just not think about the logistics of carrying around every weapon at all times. "They're just in this magic bag that holds everything!" level of retardation.Make them big. Make them a bit inconvenient to carry. Show them on characters. Have them carry bags. What is interesting isn't the Pokeball shrinking and being in a pocket out of view. It's more interesting when the fisherman has it on his fishing rod. The bug catcher carries around a bug catching box with them. The idol has it on her mic. The ace trainer and ranger carry utility belts with these hanging. The male ranger has it on a lasso. The breeder carries them in a bucket because she needs so many. The monk has it as part of his prayer bead thing. Every type of person that chooses to own Pokemon has to think about how to carry these around. That's interesting.
>>58297931No they weren't. The adventures manga did that because that was the author's interpretation of it. Adventures is notably always a bit disconnected from the games because the guy who makes it doesn't get inside info from gamefreak.
>>58296419>So many people in this fucking thread ignoring we literally have in-game depictions of the smaller form, they just never bothered showing them grow and shrink
>>58300044>The monk has it as part of his prayer bead thing.Loved that shit even as a kid. I'm enthralled by whatever scrap of religious iconography Pokemon is allowed to include in the franchise. All the other trainers have attached their pokeball to something that makes it more practical to throw or pullback like the fishing pole or a lasso, but the Monk/Priest has strung it up with his beads so him and his Pokemon can be close to him when he prays.Such an interesting little piece of in-setting culture.
>>58296455If you're referring to a ball that would grow, that is a thing already. Look up "expanding ball" or "shrink-a-ball" toy. All they would need to do is something like that but also have panels fold under itself when shrinking and unfold similar to a cardboard box when expanding.Either that or they could do something like a hollowed out stress ball. You could squeeze it and it would stick to itself inside, but the pressing the button could release a clasp inside it that would allow it to expand.
>>58297686I've seen some trainers number their balls. That or you just memorize the position on your belt.>>58297931Gacha balls, also referred to as capsules. Pokemon, Pocket Monsters was originally supposed to have been called Capsule Monsters, Capmon. For some reason they didn't do this and kept the capsules and put the capsules on belts. Pokemon are never actually in a pocket. Interestingly enough, a few years later Yu-gi-oh featured a game called Capsule Monster Chess as a game in the manga. and later made an anime spinoff about Capsule Monsters and 2 video games about it. Completely unrelated other than capsules out of the gacha machines were already popular in Japan.
