That pikachu is so badass, standing in his tail

A worthy successor to Ash's Pikachu

i wish ash comes up on this it would be cool

gotta be honest nice to see a pikachu using its signature move again after a long time.

They was they introduced him was bad*ss too lol

ikr, this Pikachu's Aura literally scream the "Coolness" and always going hard everyday everytime

He feels like a jojo Pikachu, and i love it💪🤣

"Am I the heroine in some story?"
Why do you think this show is called "Pocket Monster: Liko and Roy set off"

Anyways liking what I watch so far, the story was nice and the mc was likable. I love her partner pokemon too.

btw, I really liked this anime, YK, I was kinda sad to know that this anime is again focusing on the young watchers, instead of yk the adult watchers, say the teens and above, bcz I felt that'd be a lot better bcz it'd be like, the Ash pokemon to the children, then the new version for the teens. I really support the decision of retiring Ash, bcz Pokemon has lost the popularity that it had a decade ago, so my opinion of having a series dedicated to the teen watchers would bring a significant rise in the number of watchers, and increasing the quality of the animation would be the best thing to do. But after watching these two eps, it looks promising, and m surely gonna enjoy this version of Pokemon, m in love with Liko already.

XY had more of a shounen feel to it and felt like it was aimed at teens but when that season was airing the profits started dropping. While it'd be cool to see a Pokemon series aimed at an older audience, it's the kids that are the main audience and make them money.

Well pokemon is around for like 27 years, it's not the children who made it to its best heyday that time it's us the og fans

Pokémon never lost it's popularity.. But with this new series and the new TCG I bet it will decline in months. ;)

hahahahahah she now holds the mantle of the new FMC of pokemon .

To be fair. Most people be more focus on Liko than Roy. I say down the road most people don't care Roy. If he turn out be like Goh. The dude is doom. Mine prediction. The dude probably be there just for filler content and comedy. Until they focus back on Liko plot. If he doesn't have any compelling story that we should care about. Than yes she really is the Heroine of the story we care about.

Après, on a quand même la même chose avec Sacha et tous celles/ceux qui l'ont suivi, donc ça ne fait pas vraiment de différence. Reste à voir comment ça tourne mais bon, au moins un perso féminin central dans Pokémon qui ne soit pas simplement un potentiel "love interest" de Sacha, je trouve ça sympa.

In a way, it has been basically the same with Ash and everyone tagging along. I get what you mean, but let's see how it turns out like since Roy hasn't even appeared yet. At least, I'm glad it's not a female character just there to be a potentiel love interest to the MC.

This makes me super angry many times! Every time there is a girl and boy heroes series, everyone rather focuses on the girl rather than the guy! That is gender discrimination!

I think what he/she was trying to say was about the likeability of the plot, not the gender, although by what you were trying to say, it's kinda normal depending on which gender are you more attached to, it's not necessarily gender discrimination when there's adoration going on without the intent to hate the other one's gender

But it is gender discrimination when you prefer a gender over the other, without considering that the other character may have potential as well! You'd be surprised how many times I've seen this in anime! People in comments sections always putting the female characters on a pedestal and the male ones becoming the but of all jokes! I am a straight man and heterosexual, but I also prefer some all-men anime like Haikyuu, Blue Lock or Futsal Boys that are more aimed towards men rather than women! There should be an equal liking towards both genders!

My guy, you need to RELAX LOL. Besides, Roy hasn't even shown up yet!! We don't know much about his character, aside from him being outgoing (from what's been shown anyway).
I think people are more drawn towards Liko because her design is a bit more visually interesting (i.e. her color scheme pops out more), and the story seems to be focusing on her for now (but that may change as Roy's own story starts to unfold). Be patient, even I wanna like Roy as a character!
Edit: btw, straight already means heterosexual

Liko's colour design does pop out, but her personality as a character is very bland. I seriously hope she won't get more popular than Roy ONLY bcs she's a girl, knowing anime fans today and how they are :(

It not bland, it's just different, i for one can relate to being shi and awkward with my word said that age, the feeling of starting something new, starting from the bottom. I like her, and i look forward to her character growth.

(talking about shonen) I remember tenish years ago, everyone was only about male characters (in terms of hype) as females characters were, for a good amount of them, just there to make some ppl drool but they had no character/personality whatsoever (not surprising considering the way women are seen/treated in Japan). And recently, chicks in mainstream anime are giving me the creeps (objectification) coz I have the feeling it's way worse than before, but meh, maybe I'm wrong.

i kind of miss the grouping experience and just sleeping out in the woods, doing side missions, man im going to miss james...

It's called fanservice, brought to you by the early 80s anime era of Japan with the introduction of Lum Invader

And why can't a boy doing his best and battling other trainers in a 'kids anime' also be considered fan-service?

Actually the show is called Pokemon Horizons 🤓

"Horizons" is what other sites are calling it instead of "Pokemon (Shinsaku Anime)".

Even tho it's clearly been advertised as "Pokemon Horizons"???

I hadn't seen any advertisements for it. Other than a youtube video trying to theorize that she was Ash's daughter lol. Then again, I don't watch TV anyways so commercials and ads are non-existent.

Pokemon Horizons is what this Pokemon series is called though, you could look it up on YouTube or Google if you want

I mean, I did say it was labeled that elsewhere, I don't need to search it lol.

The Japanese title of this series is "Pocket Monsters" as always, this time with the subtitle "Liko & Roy's Departure" (in full, ポケットモンスター: リコとロイの旅立ち).
Meanwhile "Pokémon Horizons: The Series" is the official English title used by TPCi when licensing the anime to English-speaking markets.

"Pokemon (Shinsaku Anime)" isn't even the official title at all, shinsaku just means "new work" lol

they got to earn it

are you sure thats Leafage it looks more like a leaf storm to me

it's a lot of "leafage" for sure lmao

my thoughts exactly! haha

lmao

Someone on the writing staff really liked sky battles from Gen 6 and took them to a whole new level!

Actual underrated battle gimmick imo

Theme song is fine honestly not the best compared to the other Japanese opening for the Pokémon anime

what team rocket cant do in 25 years, done by new characters in 1 episode xD

and the mf just fell into their arms basically LOL

but they didnt fumble the ball like team rocket

So that’s pretty much it for me for this anime .I didn’t feel like I was gonna watch this every week cause I have other stuff to do I’ll be back here when episode 30 is out and I’ll binge it because Pokémon anime is better in this format given how every season is around 100 episodes with the exception of the first 5 seasons was like 273 episodes so yeah

Goodbye, for now.

bro never learned the 3 episode rule

The three episode rule isn’t always the case for every anime because some anime takes a while to pick up

It's still the standard, most anime have it.

Most but that doesn’t mean every anime is gonna be great in 3 episodes I personally wasn’t into attack on titan til episode 12 or 13

Alright, 2 Pokemon episodes in 24 hours!

Nice!