【DB Update】 Introducing the newest addition to the Features section, the Japanese Streaming Guide! This page provides a detailed breakdown of the various streaming services in Japan that offer Pokémon content on-demand! Check it out! dogasu.bulbagarden.net/watch/stream...

Is there anyplace Pokémon fans go to talk about the Pokémon manga? The message boards on the major fansites have all gotten rid of their manga sections, nobody seems to be talking about it on Twitter/Bluesky...I guess Reddit has some activity, but is there anywhere else people go?

【DB Update】 The Manga Guide's been updated with summaries of the latest chapters of the following series: ・Poco a Pokémon 4-Koma Biyori ・Pokémon Card Game Yarouze~! Mega Chapter ・Kousaku Anakubo's Pocket Monsters ・Pocket Monsters Special dogasu.bulbagarden.net#20260729

Pichu & Pikachu's Winter Holiday 2001 "We Pichu Brothers: The Balloon Incident." A spin-off of the Pichu short released alongside the Entei movie, this episode shows the Pichu Bros having a fight, stealing balloons, and inadvertently creating an elaborate ice slide. #DogasuWatchesJohto

Pichu & Pikachu's Winter Holiday 2001 "Delibird's Presents" & "White Story." "Delibird's Presents" was perfectly fine. Not the best thing ever, but the simple plot and cute little character interactions were entertaining. #DogasuWatchesJohto

"Pichu & Pikachu's Winter Holiday 2001" The third and final set of "Pikachu's Winter Holiday" specials. The actual release itself is a bit odd, but the actual episodes themselves are fun enough, I guess. #DogasuWatchesJohto

Why we probably haven't gotten HD remasters of the #anipoke TV series yet. bulbagarden.net/threads/why-...

Why did they never remaster more episodes?

For context, sometime around 2013/2014, the first episode of the anime was 'remastered' to celebrate the anime's fifteenth anniversary. It was aired again around the time the anime was celebrating it'...

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I was looking through the Johto TV broadcast schedule just now, and did you know that the Pocket Monsters animated series didn't take a *single* week off in the year 2001? We got 52 regular episodes, PLUS a theatrical film, PLUS a 90 minute TV special 😱 Absolutely unthinkable in the modern era.

Episode 178 "Popocco! The Grass Pokémon Battle!!" Satoshi enters a Grass-Type Pokémon tournament. The tournament itself is amusing enough, I guess, but the episode does a really bad job of making Popocco stand out from literally every other Grass-Type in this show. #DogasuWatchesJohto

It’s been seven years since the Japanese version (!!!) of Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution premiered at Anime Expo in the U.S.! The movie remains one of only *two* animated productions to have the original JPN audio made legally available to fans in the U.S. dogasu.bulbagarden.net/movies/2019_...

Episode 177 "Flap Your Wings, Yanyanma! To the Sky of Tomorrow!!" A glassmaker struggles with stopping a dragonfly from breaking windows in a town filled with the most gullible people ever. This episode makes the Yanyanma species seem pretty charming. #DogasuWatchesJohto

Episode 176 "Ariados! The Ninja-Arts Battle!!" Satoshi and his friends enjoy playing ninja for a week. The return of Aya is...whatever, but the ninja antics and the cool new spider Pokémon are at least fun. #DogasuWatchesJohto

I'm so glad to see (err...*hear*) that whatever sound mixing issues they had with that Unite episode the other seem to have been resolved #anipoke

Episode 175 "Nyarth and Bulu and Granbulu!?" Kaneyo and Bulu both get stronger. This one's...perfectly fine. The comedy's pretty solid, with both Kaneyo and the Rocket trio delivering at all times, but at the same time I can't help but feel a bit underwhelmed by the whole thing #DogasuWatchesJohto

Earlier today it was announced that Akihiro Miwa has passed away at the age of 91. RIP to an absolute legend. www.oricon.co.jp/news/2464158/

@dogasusbackpack.bsky.social · last yr.

In Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl The Movie "Arceus - To the Conquering of Time and Space," the titular Pokémon was portrayed by special guest VA Akihiro Miwa (美輪明宏), an entertainer/activist with a decades long career in both singing and acting. Mr. Miwa came out as gay in the late 1950s.

Episode 174 "Aim to be a Metamon Master! Imite Returns!!" Imite comes back in what is mostly a rehash of her first appearance. The sudden focus on Sonansu's moveset is admittedly a bit odd, especially after last week, but there's enough good stuff here to make that a non-issue. #DogasuWatchesJohto

One of the (many) great things about the Japanese version is that the name pronunciations have been consistent since day one 😁

Joe Merrick@joemerrick.bsky.social · last mo.

Hearing the anime pronounce Archaludon a different way to how official materials have up to now, and how they've been saying it on VG & TCG streams...and even different to its context shows that there really is no hope to get Pokémon pronunciation consistent in the community

Episode 173 "The Village of Sonansu!?" Yuji Ueda gets to try out all the different Sonansu voices he's come up with over the last year or so. Episodes where the Rocket-Dan play the role of the good guys (even if only temporarily) are always a treat. #DogasuWatchesJohto

"The very first Pokémon manga series" 🤡

VIZ Media@viz.com · last mo.

Announcement: Celebrate 30 years of Pokémon with a hardcover, deluxe edition of the very first Pokémon manga series. Pokémon Adventures: Red and Blue, Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 with story by Hidenori Kusaka and art by Mato releases Fall 2026.

The December 2019 issue of Animedia (which came out shortly before the start of #anipoke 2019) included a description of Gou as being a 中性的な美少年, a phrase that means "androgynous pretty boy" but that a lot of fans misinterpreted as meaning "non-binary" instead.

Episode 172 "Redian! Get Through the Valley of Wind!!" A pretty decent showcase of a Pokémon I honestly never really thought much of before now. Which is kind of the whole point of this show, really! The Rocket trio is hilarious as always. #DogasuWatchesJohto

The origins of the Rocket trio's cross-dressing, according to one of the show's veteran animators Sayuri Ichi'ishi: (yes, it does seem like she forgot about the beach episode)

If I can be allowed to toot my own horn for a moment, I love how this video turned out. And also I feel like I’m probably the only person on the planet ridiculous enough to ever make it in the first place 😂😅

@dogasusbackpack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The scenes of the Rocket trio starting up their robot is an homage to similar sequences in the classic sci-fi series "Space Battleship Yamato." Animation director Masaaki Iwane has said that Yamato's his favorite animated series, and you can tell the voice actors had a lot of fun with this as well.

Episode 171 "Bracky! Battle in the Dark Night!!" We get a gorgeous looking episode thanks to Iwane and Asada, but the rivalry between Satoshi and Shigeru is just kind of meh at this point. The Rocket trio is great as usual. #DogasuWatchesJohto

Isn’t the English dub so far behind at this point that this game event’s spoiling episodes of the TV series that aren’t even up on Netflix yet?

Bulbagarden@bulbagarden.net · 2mo ago

Special Solo Mode stage featuring Rising Volt Tacklers now available in Pokémon UNITE as part of the Pokémon Horizons Collaboration Event https://bulbagarden.... #pokemon

Episode 170 "Tsubotsubo vs. Madatsubomi" Our heroes chase after a bunch of turtles to drink their sweet, sweet nectar. The absolute chaos going on in this one reminds me a lot of the classic Kanto-era episodes in the best way possible. #DogasuWatchesJohto

The guest for the December 23rd, 2012 episode of "Pokémon Radio Show! The #RocketDan Secret Empire" was Rocket trio mega fan (and transgender icon) Ms. Ayana Tsubaki! More about the episode here: dogasu.bulbagarden.net/features/pok...

Episode 169 "Goodbye Rokon! The Pokémon Beauty Contest!!" This episode has a lot of bad about it -- poorly executed lore dumps, a lack of focus on Takeshi, a contest with no conclusion -- but the Rocket trio's antics and bizarre Pokémon designs bump this up to "just alright." #DogasuWatchesJohto

Episode 168 "Azumao! Fishing Battle!!" Kasumi gets another great focus episode, and this time Nyorozo gets some of that spotlight too. The art's a bit rough this week but the various character interactions -- especially between Kasumi and Tokio -- more than make up for it. #DogasuWatchesJohto