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BNVshark123 posted...

How so? Multiple Zoroark?

Bianca has such a crush on Stephan's Sawk. The dub doesn't even try to cover it up either.

What the-- That's pretty strange.

Afterall, Sawk doesn't fit with the normal cute pokemon she goes after.

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According to Japanese airing dates, the movie premiered in between "Reunion Battles in Nimbasa" and "Cilan Versus Trip, Ash Versus Georgia".

So I guess the heroes just took a break from the tournament to go get into wacky antics with Zekrom/Reshiram. Serebii lists it before the Nimbasa tournament, though.

Since you're already in the middle, I guess you might as well watch it after the conclusion of this tournament.

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Grover has never been so sexy.

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From: Anagram | #290

What’s weird is that every single person at the tournament acts like Ash’s choice is the most bizarre thing ever, like why would you ever choose a pokemon that’s neutral to something.

Because there's nothing weak to normal, of course.

Good point.


mnkboy907 posted...

According to Japanese airing dates, the movie premiered in between "Reunion Battles in Nimbasa" and "Cilan Versus Trip, Ash Versus Georgia".

So I guess the heroes just took a break from the tournament to go get into wacky antics with Zekrom/Reshiram. Serebii lists it before the Nimbasa tournament, though.

Since you're already in the middle, I guess you might as well watch it after the conclusion of this tournament.

What? Argh. Ah well.

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CILAN VERSUS TRIP, ASH VERSUS GEORGIA!
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Score: 6/10

Trip versus Cilan. Trip talks about how he beat Chili, but Iris can't imagine Cilan losing a battle. Even though Cilan lost a battle in his first episode. Dwebble versus Gurdurr. Gurdurr gets the advantage early on and nearly cracks Dwebble's rock, so Cilan decides this is the most appropriate possible time for evaluating, and he tells Trip all about how awesome Gurdurr is, but informs him that it is sadly not as awesome as Dwebble. To prove this, Cilan has Dwebble teleport boulders from nowhere.

Gurdurr is unable to handle breaking the laws of physics, and Trip loses handily.

There's also a subplot where Bianca thinks Zorua is lost and keeps getting tricked by it turning into Georgia. LULZ SO FUNNY.

Bianca versus Stephan. He's confident in his abilities, which angers Bianca. But neither of these characters are protagonists, so we just skip directly to the end of the battle between Zebstrika and Minccino, which Zebstrika wins easily. Well, Bianca, I don’t know what to tell you. That's what you get when you select your pokemon based solely on how cute they are.

Luke defeats Other Guy, and Iris defeats Jimmy Ray, the guy dressed like a Patrat. Wow, Jimmy Ray was surprisingly pointless.

Round 2 will consist of Georgia, Cilan, Luke, Iris, Stephan, Ash, Dino the Extra from Road Warrior, and some girl (watch out for her, she obviously knows what she’s doing). There’s a day before the next round, so everyone goes to the pokemon center. Ash is somehow completely surprised by Trip leaving early since there’s no longer anything for him to do here. The heroes have dinner with Stephan, but Bianca shows up and keeps trying to impress Zorua because she desperately wants it for her own. Jesus, the girl just can’t take it when cute things don’t like her.

Round 2. Georgia versus Ash, Cilan versus Luke, Stephan versus Iris, Dino the Extra from Road Warrior versus some girl. Man, how exciting to have characters face off against people whom they have absolutely no connection to whatsoever.

Ash's Snivy versus Georgia's Pawniard. Oh, uh. Yeah, that's a pokemon that exists, alright. Pawniard starts off strong, tossing Snivy around, and two minutes later Ash eventually remembers Snivy knows attract. It doesn't work, and everyone is completely surprised to learn Pawniard is female. Literally everyone. Even Dino the road warrior extra gets a moment when he’s like “WHAT?!”

A completely lucky attack launches a rock onto Pawniard's head... knife... thing, weighing it down too much to move. This allows Snivy to strike at the helpless enemy, but Georgia tricks Snivy into breaking the rock, allowing Pawniard to move again. She orders a use of guillotine, and uh you would think that if she's going to use that attack, she'd start with it but okay. Snivy is knocked on its ass, and as Georgia orders another use of guillotine, the episode ends.

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No, since Trip ****ing beat Ash

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GenesisSaga posted...

I KNOW, RIGHT? That'd be like May trading her Combusken for a random guy's Vulpix just because the latter is cuter. Ice cold!

I suppose, in complete fairness to Bianca, you can point out that Tepig is legitimately cute, and she might not have known it would evolve into something so hideous, and since she only cares about cuteness, she wants to find a new pokemon. But that's still, as you said, ice cold.

Everyone facing off against their own rival would be unrealistic and suspend too mucg disbelief. As you know, this children's show about fictional creatures has ALWAYS been about realism.

I know it would be unrealistic, but when Cilan beats Trip, it's like... okay. Great. These two characters with absolutely no emotional connection have had a battle. Whew. Though, I admit, it is nice to see the characters fight people they otherwise wouldn't - you'd never have seen Misty fight Gary.

Pawniard's pose there was the best. I'm surprised you didn't screencap it.

I did, but I couldn't think of any good captions for it. In retrospect, given what I did with Sawk, I should have gone "Boys."

Pawniard you were the best. For one episode. Then that happened.

Sawk actually has more shots like that. That was merely the first one.

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So basically Ash should be focusing on beating Cilan instead of Trip.

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Is it just me, or is Bianca's VA different? This one sounds way less annoying and raspy.

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Too many Sonic VAs...

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Bianca starts staring directly into the camera because she’s apparently never seen one before, and then tries to trade her Pignite for Luke's Zorua. Wow, seriously? That’s your first pokemon it and ****ing loves you, you evil girl.

I KNOW, RIGHT? That'd be like May trading her Combusken for a random guy's Vulpix just because the latter is cuter. Ice cold!

Round 2. Georgia versus Ash, Cilan versus Luke, Stephan versus Iris, Dino the Extra from Road Warrior versus some girl. Man, how exciting to have characters face off against people whom they have absolutely no connection to whatsoever.

Everyone facing off against their own rival would be unrealistic and suspend too mucg disbelief. As you know, this children's show about fictional creatures has ALWAYS been about realism.

Ash eventually remembers Snivy knows attract. It doesn't work, and everyone is completely surprised to learn Pawniard is female. Literally everyone. Even Dino the road warrior extra gets a moment when he’s like “WHAT?!”

Pawniard's pose there was the best. I'm surprised you didn't screencap it.

OH MY GOD

I apologize, folks. "Some girl" was actually a really, really effeminate guy named Antonio. Dino the Road Warrior Extra defeats him.

Lol, I was wondering who you were talking about since I remembered this tournament being a Boy's Club aside from Iris and Georgia



Pawniard you were the best. For one episode. Then that happened.

Round 3 will be Ash/Dino and Luke/Iris. I predict a 100% chance that Dino will defeat Ash. Ash sends out Palpitoad, Dino sends out Darumaka, and the episode ends with a To Be Continued.

Anna, I thought the same thing! My certainty didn't even waver when.Ash sent out a pokémon with a 4x type advantage against Dino's Fire type. Road Warrior totally GOT this s***!

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Also, viewers will be happy to know that Anagram is doing you a favor by not pointing out that they've already gotten Stephan's name wrong at least six times in this arc alone. Seriously, pre-Chronicles Butch knew how to pace a running gag.

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It is worth noting, I guess, that Ash just beat up both of Iris and Cilan's rivals. Also that Cilan beat Ash's rival. Can you imagine if Brock had beaten Paul in a battle?

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The actual BW2 anime is better than that anyway since it has Dawn.

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BNVshark123 posted...

Is it just me, or is Bianca's VA different? This one sounds way less annoying and raspy.

It's a different actress.

The comments seem to think that the anime is worse than this would be, but that's only because there's so little of it. If this had to fill fifteen seasons, it would be just as silly.

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Heck, they didn't even make it through one battle before they forgot about Hyper Beam cooldown.

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Yes, but it also has people saying "Heads up, I'm going to unleash my rage".

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I dunno, I'd rather watch the fake anime than this one. Looks more adult. I mean did you see Arcanine Bite the f*** outta that Seviper!?

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From: mnkboy907 | #320

Yes, but it also has people saying "Heads up, I'm going to unleash my rage".

Is there something wrong with being polite?

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mnkboy907 posted...

From: BNVshark123 | #322

mnkboy907 posted...

Yes, but it also has people saying "Heads up, I'm going to unleash my rage".

For what it's worth, in the Japanese version, he says something along the lines of "This is going to be quite tough *Looks to hero* hold my back, will ya?"

So basically I'd want to watch the sub if this was a real thing.

Pretty much.

I really like how none of the Pokemon stupidly say their names. The anime should totally do that.

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mnkboy907 posted...

Yes, but it also has people saying "Heads up, I'm going to unleash my rage".

For what it's worth, in the Japanese version, he says something along the lines of "This is going to be quite tough *Looks to hero* hold my back, will ya?"

So basically I'd want to watch the sub if this was a real thing.

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mnkboy907 posted...

Yes, but it also has people saying "Heads up, I'm going to unleash my rage".

For what it's worth, in the Japanese version, he says something along the lines of "This is going to be quite tough *Looks to hero* hold my back, will ya?"

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It is way to late for the anime to start doing that.

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CLUB BATTLE FINALE: A HERO'S OUTCOME!
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Score: 5/10

Palpitoad defeats Darumaka in literally less than five seconds. Huh. That was a bizarrely interesting design for Dino and a suspenseful To Be Continued wasted on absolutely nothing. I mean… what was the point of that?

Well, whatever. Next up is Luke versus Iris. Luke's asked Bianca to film him, but she's instead chosen to film Zorua sitting.

Golett versus Axew. Iris opens with scratch, thus showing the writers remembered that ghost types are immune to normal attacks for this episode. Golett splits into three copies of itself with double team and then tries to smash into Axew. Not knowing which is real, Axew stands perfectly still and allows all of them to hit it. I must admit, that is a unique, interesting strategy that I, for one, never would have thought of. Since Axew can only use scratch and dragon rage, it's at a huge disadvantage, so it learns outrage. Wow, that’s a helpful thing to be able to do. By the way, outrage literally consists of just punching your target a bunch of times in a row and visually has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with dragons. Iris is the victor, and snuggles Axew because it’s cute. Enjoy it while you can, Axew, one day you’ll be a Haxorus and no one will snuggle you.

After the battle, Luke is disappointed that Bianca only filmed Zorua and spent her time making it an outfit.

I honestly don’t know what he expected - though I’ll agree that Bianca’s ability to create that much clothing in like two minutes is surprisingly. Bianca, for her part, continues trying to convince Zorua to be her pokemon, to a point where it becomes clear she only wants Zorua because the writers had no idea what to do with her during this tournament after her loss.

Burgundy appears and challenges Cilan to a connoisseur battle during the next Ash/Iris battle, which he agrees to. What does a connoisseur battle consist of? Commenting on things. Despite the quality of commenting and narration being completely subjective, they still manage to find a judge for their battle.

Pikachu versus Axe-- Excadrill?! That's just mean, Iris. That’s just mean. Ash has Pikachu use thunderbolt for its move because he wants to show how serious he is. No, really, that’s his literal explanation. I don’t know either. As the battle goes on, Burgundy and Cilan comment on it - but Cilan is clearly better at it than she is, and she consents to calling the connoisseur battle off. That was… literally 100% pointless padding.

Pikachu does well at first, but it finally loses so much energy that it's knocked down. It bravely, heroically stands up! And then is then knocked out by Excadrill's next attack before it can do anything.

As Iris accepts the prize, she sees a camera, so she says hi to the elders at the Village of Dragons. Wow, I be they’re really excited for your ability to win with non-dragons.


Meanwhile, Team Rocket is planning something with the music hall. OooOOOOOOooooOOOOooo

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I am working on a legal acquisiton of the next movie, I thought I already had it, but it seems that I do not.

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Palpitoad defeats Darumaka in literally less than five seconds. Huh. That was a bizarrely interesting design for Dino and a suspenseful To Be Continued wasted on absolutely nothing. I mean… what was the point of that?

That can't have been planned right? Like they must have done the cliffhanger thinking there would be a significant portion of battle left and then decided they had way too much to do this ep and just cut it to that.

Right?

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CLUB BATTLE FINALE: A HERO'S OUTCOME!
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*très

>_>

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edit: whoa

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I blame Ash on that one. It's the final match, like Iris wasn't going to use her strongest Pokemon? Ash should've anticipated that one, but I guess he was out of his reasoning fuel that day.

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Palpitoad defeats Darumaka in literally less than five seconds. Huh. That was a bizarrely interesting design for Dino and a suspenseful To Be Continued wasted on absolutely nothing. I mean… what was the point of that?

WHAT!? Are you f***ing SERIOUS!? You have GOT to be kidding me! I honestly can't believe Dino lost with his unevolved pokémon at a 4x type disadvantage to Ash's Palpitoad.

I honestly don’t know what he expected - though I’ll agree that Bianca’s ability to create that much clothing in like two minutes is surprisingly. Bianca, for her part, continues trying to convince Zorua to be her pokemon, to a point where it becomes clear she only wants Zorua because the writers had no idea what to do with her during this tournament after her loss.

I find it surprisingly that you're making excuses for Bianca after these last few episodes. I had officially grown tired of her after this.

Pikachu versus Axe-- Excadrill?! That's just mean, Iris.

Yeah, that struck me as rather cheap too. At this point Pikachu had what, two electric type moves, one steel type, and one normal type? Yeah, this battle was over before it even started. But I was happy enough seeing a main character other than Ash win a non-beauty-themed competition, so whatever.

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GenesisSaga posted...

*très

>_>

Yeah, well... Burgundy shouldn't have kept using French for no reason.

>_>

WHAT!? Are you f***ing SERIOUS!? You have GOT to be kidding me! I honestly can't believe Dino lost with his unevolved pokémon at a 4x type disadvantage to Ash's Palpitoad.

I just honestly thought it was leading to something, you know?

I find it surprisingly that you're making excuses for Bianca after these last few episodes. I had officially grown tired of her after this.

I find Bianca to be pretty frustrating, but honestly, I still like her better than Burgundy becasue at least she keeps suffering consequences for her stupidity. Also, I hate Burgundy's dumb little bowtie.

Yeah, that struck me as rather cheap too. At this point Pikachu had what, two electric type moves, one steel type, and one normal type? Yeah, this battle was over before it even started. But I was happy enough seeing a main character other than Ash win a non-beauty-themed competition, so whatever.

It is gratifying for someone other than Ash to win, but it was in the meanest possible way, so eh.

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Palpitoad could probably put up a good fight.

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The writers wanted to give Iris the win and did it in a way to make it clear that Pikachu had no chance with both the type disadvantage and that Excadrill was already known to be a powerhouse.

Yet people still complained when Iris won.

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Even then, Excadrill is just much more experienced.

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Excadrill was probably stronger than all of Ash's Pokemon at the time.

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