According to Kotaku, the Twitch Presents channel will begin streaming an absolutely massive Pokémon anime marathon next week, on 27th August. It will be the longest television-like event Twitch has done so far, and is going to run all the way through to 2019.
The first episode will kick off with the Indigo League season when Ash and Pikachu had their first falling out. The schedule from here on out will be episodes streaming for eight hours from Monday through to Thursday, with Friday to Saturday allocated to reruns, and movies airing on Sunday.
In celebration of the event, Twitch is adding a Pokémon Badge Collector feature, allowing viewers to catch Pokémon and fill in a Pokédex by clicking on a small icon when a Pokémon appears on-screen. There'll even be a leaderboard, with more points awarded for rarer Pokémon.
Here's the full schedule:
Starting August 27, eight hours of new episodes Monday - Thursday starting at 10 AM PT, with reruns on Friday and Saturday on /twitchpresents2. Movie night every Sunday at 10 AM PT.
Regions: US, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Australia
Television show:
- Pokémon: Indigo League
- Pokémon: Adventures on the Orange Islands
- Pokémon: The Johto Journeys
- Pokémon: Johto League Champions
- Pokémon: Master Quest
- Pokémon: Advanced
- Pokémon: Advanced Challenge
- Pokémon: Advanced Battle
- Pokémon: Battle Frontier
- Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl
- Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Battle Dimensions
- Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Galactic Battles
- Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Sinnoh League Victors
- Pokémon: Black & White
- Pokémon: Black & White Rival Destinies
- Pokémon: Black & White Adventures in Unova and Beyond
- Pokémon the Series: XY
- Pokémon the Series: XY Kalos Quest
- Pokémon the Series: XYZ
Movies:
- Pokémon: The First Movie
- Pokémon: The Movie 2000
- Pokémon 3: The Movie
- Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew
- Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
- Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai
- Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior
- Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life
- Pokémon—Zoroark: Master of Illusions
- Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram/Pokémon the Movie: White—Victini
- and Zekrom
- Pokémon The Movie: Kyurem vs. The Sword of Justice
- Pokémon The Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened
- Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction
- Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages
- Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel
In the past, Twitch has played Pokémon but apparently only ever streamed the anime for 24 hours straight. Tell us in the comments if you'll be tuning in when the anime marathon begins.
[source kotaku.com.au, via twitch.tv]
Comments 25
923 episodes and 15 movies of the biggest loser in Pokemon history.
Guess who is going to watch it all and not sleep? Me. See you in a month.
I had no idea there was so much animated Pokemon content.
I'll only watch the first nine seasons, couldn't handle the rest.
Jeez, is that even legal..?
Sounds like a neat event, especially the collecting part!
@Optimusultimus It is because it's being done in partnership with the Pokemon company. There was a Yu-gi-oh stream a while back that did the same thing.
Who do I blame for not having 4Ever, Heroes, DD? Disney or what?
@DonSerrot There was a Yu-Gi-Oh Stream?!
I wonder if I can use a VPN to watch it here in Japan too.
thats about 14 days dive or take an hour or 2
@SladeWatkins I've never seen you in the comments before, but okay, see you in a month, random stranger.
I loved the Doctor Who one but... wow.
@AlienX Don't forget Jirachi Wishmaker
@Not_Soos Ha! I've always been reading the site, but just joined in June. Nice to meet ya, lol 😂
@brutalpanda Oh there's waaaaaay more when you add the Sun and Moon anime (Totaling the series to over 1000 episodes), banned episodes, all the OVAs, and the 2 other movies not included on the list (I Choose You and The Power of Us.)
@AlienX i didn't even notice 4ever was missing.
You'd think with the current pokemon go quest they'd include that
@w00dm4n @AlienX Miramax. They distributed the movies back in the day and unlike Warner Bros who distributed the first 3 movies and gave the rights back to The Pokemon Company so they could do blu ray releases, Miramax seems keen on keeping the rights to those 4 movies and continuing to sell them again and again as cheap DVDs with the odd blu ray release.
My guess is you'll either have to wait till Miramax give the rights back thought some negotiation on Pokemon Company's part, or wait for the rights to expire. After that, The Pokemon Company could do anything with those films from things like the Twitch stream to new rereleases and hell, maybe even a giant boxset containing all the movies.
Just received the bluray of the latest movie... will do... who got the time for streaming marathons?
That's close to 30,000 hours of Pokémon!
Gen 4 was the last time the Pokemon anime was okay.
Gen 5 was okay at the very beginning before becoming complete trash.
The beginning of Gen 6 was just a running joke of Serena's crush on Ash being unnoticed because he's an idiot hero, and later it became the Greninja show.
Gen 7 is bad again.
@w00dm4n cough Orange League cough Battle Frontier cough
@TheHumbleFellow Orange League...was so bad Ash started releasing his pokemon after it cause they were garbage like the trophy he won and his new friend Tracey. Tracey just used him to get a job with Oak.
They should have done this back in 2016, when it was Pokemon's 20th Anniversary. Was still one heck of an anniversary. though.
@SladeWatkins Haha, welcome to the community!
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