Video: Check Out the Third Episode of Pokémon Generations

"Cubone wears its dead mother's skull"
How many skulls does she have?!?

I liked the exchange between Blue and Agatha, as Agatha in the games also thinks that Pokemon are for fighting. Other than that, I like it a lot. The battles were really rushed, but the animation was great and I like how it showed how Blue became the champion, so I feel like the pros outweighed the cons.

Sick. My bro (30) and I (24) watched this like a couple of excited kids, just as we did in the 90s with the anime. So much nostalgia - especially the word for word trainer quotes from RBY!

Gary is the best character in Pokémon. If you don't like him that's just because you're way worse than him and jealous.

Good voice cast, particularly Lance and Gary

Hate to be salty, but with Go, Sun/Moon, and this web mini-series, this is how an anniversary year should be done. Props to the Pokemon Company. Zelda fans are jealous.

@Xaessya Maybe, since the skull is on the outside, it's not actually anatomically a skull but rather some kind of exoskeletal shell that they shed as they grow?

@mjharper At least Metroid had a good year...

@mjharper I thought you were gonna say "metroid fans are jealous". Oh well.

@Phil_Kavadias I'm not sure Red would really take offense. He seemed fairly humble in Origins after winning against Blue. In fact, Blue seemed to mellow out a little bit after losing, it seemed like he actually felt a little relieved that he lost.

I have only one issue with Pokémon Generations: why is the anime still involving Ash when this is what we always wanted

Either this, or at least make the Generation episodes as long as the Pokémon Origins ones!

@Handy_Man
I also wish those battles were extended. I was so ready to see Gengar do something awesome and then... nothing.

This is really cool. It just feels weird listening to Blue since I'm still used to Gary's voice.

@Xaessya Yeah, that never did make any sense. Apparantly all female Cubone and Marowak die sometime shortly after giving birth.

How could you lose Bruno? Maybe it's because you somehow thought it was a good idea to include not just one but two Onix on your team, which despite their size are actually among the weakest single stage (at the time) Pokémon of the first generation?

@mjharper I'm a Pokemon fan and a Zelda fan. Not jealous at all. Wish Nintendo did anything close to this for any of their franchises... even the "year of Mario," their flagship, big-hitter franchise, was pretty weak for all they marketed it as.

The reason Pokemon gets so much quality like this and so much incredible marketing and does so much great stuff for the fans is because of Gamefreak and the Pokemon Company. If Nintendo were the primary controllers of the franchise, it wouldn't see nearly this kind of quality for a big year like this. Which makes me really sad, because Nintendo has fantastic franchises. They make great games for them, but actually celebrating them and having good timing and marketing and tie-ins and fanservice? Nope. Nothing.

I'm sorry, this short was bad. It was overacted, battles where meh (I mean Dragonite vs Blastoise had way too much angle changes to demonstrate action when none happened) and dialoge is kindergarten fare.

Animation though is still top notch.

That dialogue was super cheesy!
"This one is really strong!"
Haha!

All good fun though, shame it's not a longer series that could have delved into the battles a bit more. Made the Elite Four look like nothing even remotely special, obviously he's meant to breeze through it but it would have been good to see them actually issue attacks to breeze through.

20 years later, they finally anime-d Lorelei right. Not that different named, huge chested, dazed wannabe from the main anime......

@TadpoleSHero At the same time the Pokemon Company appears to have worse partner management by the looks of things. Look at all of the issues that plagued Pokemon Go. That's quite damaging for the brand and a little surprising they didn't step in sooner.

Thanks Pokémon compagny for the serie Pokémon Generation. It's so awesome!!!!

The dialogue in this is so boring...The animation was great, though. I hope they make more without dialogue, like the first one.

Also, where is Blue's arcanine? They didn't show him! Harumph! >: (

To @crimsontadpoles Blue's voice was weird? Try the Italian dub, which I listened to after watching the English one: Nintendo of Italy apparently took advantage of Pokémon Generations (with "Generations" being translated, which, as far as title-attached-subtitles go, is a bit of an eyesore, given it would need an article before it in order to work properly) being slightly more "obscure" than the anime itself to introduce an admittedly talented rookie voice actor to the mainstream audience.
It felt a bit weird, sure, but at the same time, rewarding, considering his voice was usually tied to Egoraptor's dubbed videos. (Yeah, there are fandubs for Egoraptor's videos.)

It's kind of nice to see what's happening while I'm busy wandering a field cursing loudly like Uncle Bob at the office party because of the 1,427,935th Rattata I have seen.

@AlexSora89 For what it's worth, I think I actually preferred Blue's Italian dub, despite not knowing what he was saying. In fact, possibly because of that. The English dub isn't going to win any script writing awards.

Do you know what languages these shorts have been released in?

I like how the Elite Four are known as the Superquattro though. I might call my car that.

@Maxz
Nice to see you appreciate good ol' Gianandrea. He's worked hard on his VA career and I'm happy to see it's finally paying off.
As for other dubs, I have no clue, but I guess the usual European "big five" - English, French, German, Spanish and Italian - are a safe bet. As for the others, I'd also say Portuguese and Dutch, but that's where my knowledge stops.

Apologies to all NLers from the unmentioned countries.

@AlexSora89 Aah yes, the European "Supercinque". Curiously, I can't find the Japanese dub, which I normally assume to be the original. The official Japanese Youtube page makes no mention of it, and a search in Japanese only brings up the English dub.

I suspect most of the animation was done in Japan, so it seems strange that they wouldn't finish it off with voices. Maybe they're holding off releasing it for some reason, or maybe is seems a bit too similar to that Pokémon: The Origin series that was released a year or so ago.

It's not as if they're adverse to nostalgia pandering. My searches led my to this original Pokémon Card Game promo that the official channel uploaded a month ago, in which one child offers to trade a picture of her mum for an Onyx.

So I guess it wasn't a fruitless search.

I love the "Light" from Death Note like lines Blue has at the end.

@Maxz
You mean superquattro. Cinque is Italian for five.
Uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque.

Oh, hey! It's Gary Motherlovin' Oak!
Looking extra smug today, I see!

@AlexSora89 Yes, I was referring to the European "big five" languages of which you spoke - English, French, German, Spanish and Italian!

I'd just learnt that the Elite Four were known as the "Superquattro" in Italian, as was branching out into new linguistic territory! Such as... the number that comes after "quattro". It felt like progress at the time...

The Japanese term is even more exciting than the Italian (which in turn is more exciting than the English); 四天王 [shi-ten-nou], literally meaning "Four Heavenly Kings", and referring to four gods of Buddhism. The term is commonly used in various contexts (business, sports, etc.) to mean "the big four", so it's not like Pokémon invented such a melodramatic term, but it's still pretty cool I think.

@Maxz
Oh, I've misunderstood your intentions then! However, I can assure you that the games never altered the definition, just as there are no instances of the Elite Four and the Champion being referred to as "the Elite Five" (although it would make an awful amount of sense in the Johto games considering Lance was an Elite Four member).

As for exciting stuff, well, at least "ELITE FOUR" can be displayed within the first games' infamous ten-character limit: us Italians had to settle with "SUPERQUAT." for quite a while.

And yeah, I knew about the Four Heavenly Kings thing.
I just happen to lurk Bulbapedia a lot.

By the way, feel free to tour the Cutting Room Floor wiki: it's a wiki for unused content, you find all kinds of stuff there (including an instance of the Italian translator for Final Fantasy VIII, one of the first games to be translated in our language, blowing off steam in his data translation for the hidden Dummy enemy - "This translation's killin' me, it's 2 AM, I'm sleepy, I'm sleepy!!").