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chernikastan · 1 year

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You know, this one particular phrase from Gou in episode 133 bothered me when I first watched the ep and it still bothers me a lot, even though I think I know why it's there now:

Hi hello I'm back with a textwall about Gou lmao. So yeah, what bothered me about this line in particular was that it came pretty much out of nowhere. Even worse, his character arc throughout the whole show had been him learning to let others in and letting them help him instead of going on ego trips all the time. So for 100+ episodes we have this slow and imo great build up to Gou learning exactly that. To communicate with his Pokémon and people, to work together with them instead of denying help because he had always been on his own when younger. Then suddenly this sentence is meant to be a new and important realisation of his and leads to a sudden 180 arc in the last few episodes of him lamenting being too reliant on Satoshi and others in general. And that's why he has to travel on his own now. You know, if there had been clear build up to that, I wouldn't have minded that conclusion at all. People first being reluctant to trust anyone and then clinging too much to someone to a point where they're scared of doing anything if they're not around is a very real thing and a nice idea for a character arc. But the issue here is that the "too dependent" sentiment suddenly happened in the last four episode of the series, with no signs whatsoever beforehand that he was over relying on his Pokémon or Satoshi. Quite the opposite, he's always been perfectly fine with doing things on his own. It's noticeable that he was still worried about having to work with others without Satoshi around, but the entire Project Mew arc took care of that. As for the Pokémon, he's often taken the role of the person the Pokémon rely on too, an obvious example being Grookey. The very episode he says this and its follow up even focus on Grookey taking the role of the protector instead of the protected for once. Also whenever Gou does rely on his Pokémon, it's in situations where he obviously would have to, unless he thinks he's a prick for having his physically stronger Cinderace battle a Pokémon instead of him himself throwing fists with idk, Mewtwo lol.

So even though him saying he's spooked of travelling alone and being too scared to tell Satoshi directly while Satoshi comforts him is a cute scene in the end, it is also a decision on Gou's end that didn't have any build up. Him saying in the episode prior that he chose this because he'd rely on Satoshi too much didn't have any build up.

Anipoke is no stranger to throwing in jarring decisions at the end to justify the existence of the next series, Game Shark user Tobias from DPP being probably the most obvious and famous example of that. But, correct me if I'm mistaken, it's never harmed an individual character's writing that much. Heck, it's never harmed a relationship between two characters as much. Satoshi and Gou had been built up as these best friends 5ever who slowly become closer and closer throughout the series. Gou says in the second to last episode that he thinks Satoshi would totally just tell him to go for it, to do the solo journey if he feels like it. It's exactly what he said too, so Gou certainly understands his buddy by now. However, this scene would have been the perfect opportunity to have Satoshi be called out on his niceness there, because sure he's a nice and supportive dude. But we know that he enjoys hanging out with Gou. We know that he misses him when he's not around. Heck, we see in the last episode, when they seperate, that he's not exactly happy to part ways with his friend. He completely puts Gou's sudden desire to travel by himself over his own desire to keep being around his friend. As if there's some outside force that forces them to separate against their will. As if they didn't have a choice but to go separate ways because what they wanted to do was impossible with the other around. But in the epilogue (and MPM) they literally do the same things they did together the 100+ episodes prior, so there clearly was no narrative reason for this.

So with all that said. Sorry for the longass text lol, I was thinking about just throwing this into my Satogou essay, but I don't think it really fits there so here we go. SO WITH ALL THAT SAID I think MPM's existence, the way the series goes, the knowledge of what the last episode seems to be about, the knowledge of the change of executive producer between JN and MPM and Yuyama's Animedia interview about MPM, I think the reason for the sudden change in character makes sense. Hear out my super kewl theory

The Yuyama interview makes it sound quite clear that MPM wasn't exactly planned ahead, unlike decisions like Satoshi winning the PWC and making way for a new series this year. It feels oddly disconnected from the series, because even though Satoshi uses old Pokémon and briefly travels with Misty and Brock again, the places they visit are deliberately nameless. And the episodes themselves, while conceptually just like any other "helping Pokémon of the day" episode prior, have little connection to stuff that happened in the actual show outside of small references like Rattata or Beedrill. While we still have to see the conclusion to the Latias plot, it feels more like a spontaneous idea to connect these 10 episodes until the last one than anything.

Oh also a relevant tidbit of information is that Yuyama equated the title of Pokémon Master to a rainbow, e.g. something you're fascinated by and try to reach without ever being actually able to. Might explain JN's heavy usage of rainbows, at least to some extend.

In conclusion, I think what has happened is that JN was written with it being Satoshi's last series in mind. And Gou has been written as the ideal counterpart to him, basically. He's essentially the Lugia to Satoshi's Ho-oh if you wanna, hence both of these mons appearing in the last JN ep. So from his conception, Gou was never meant to go separate ways with Satoshi. But then they realised they have three whole months to fill until the new series is able to premiere. And the idea of MPM was basically born, Misty and Brock as a no brainer nostalgia bait (as per Yuyama's words, the decision to have them be the companions for MPM was so certain he doesn't even remember how they got to the conclusion), episodes that fill the void until the new show etc. Of course to recreate the og trio, they'd have to get rid of anyone but Satoshi from the previous show. How do you get rid of a character that has been established as basically having no reason to leave the other main character and who's relationship with said character had been highlighted so much in both the show and promotional material? You just make up a reason lmao.

And yeah, I mean, as I said, Anipoke is no stranger to sudden decisions like that. Shudo, the chief director from OS to Johto said how he wanted to give the show a proper ending and wasn't able to because the show had to go on. The DPP series was clearly written to build up to Satoshi winning the league (and him potentially getting replaced entirely, since Gen 5 was initially meant to be a fresh new start to the franchise). XY also very clearly was building him up to win the league. Each time it was stuff that happened in the last few episodes that certainly didn't look like they were anywhere near planned ahead. And I am almost 100% certain the same happened in JN with Gou and the sudden change of heart in these last few episodes.

Had to write all this because not only did the decision itself bother me of course (don't get me wrong, I am genuinely looking forward to the new series and MPM had its neat moments so far, but the way JN, Satoshi's series and Gou ended was a wholeass mess imo) but other I've kinda been frustrated about how many people went "hahah told yall so Gou would leave XD GOne" (that pun IS funny tho). Like, no you guys, a broken clock is also right twice a day yada yada. I highly doubt yall saw MPM coming. I high doubt yall expected Satoshi's story to end. I highly doubt you could have been able to tell me what reasoning they'd come up with to have Gou and Satoshi separate. You guys' reasoning had always just been "because they always did it (except for the times they didn't)". Because the thing is, I had written them all up at some point, but all the arguments for Gou staying were based on what the series itself presented and relied 1) on Satoshi staying and 2) the producers of the show not changing their mind last moment to justify the existence of the next series. I'm gonna go ahead and assume the executive producer of JN (Tomiyasu) saw more importance in Gou and Satoshi's relationship and Gou's importance as a character, given that he's probably partially responsible for it being a thing in the first place, than the executive producer of MPM (Yuyama), who has worked on the series as it started and notably would rather stick to the traditions of the show instead of trying out new things. That's why JN's ending feels so out of nowhere and that's probably also why MPM feels so disconnected from the rest of the series, almost more like a spin-off. While Tomiyasu is much more keen on bringing new ideas and concepts into the series. You can see that, as once he started having a bigger influence on the series with Sun and Moon, there's notable changes in setting, writing of characters etc.

Now this was a really long rant fr lol oops. Uhhh... Gou best boi, I am glad the Satogou fandom is still alive and kicking, stay gold, Satogou Day is in two days and I completely forgot about it tho oops

#satogou #i guess #gou pokemon #some rambling #text post #anipoke

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franstastic-ideas · 1 year

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The merchant from the East in the tale of The Treasures of Ruin is almost undoubtedly not meant to be Volo.

The Paldean Empire was in power 2,000 years ago prior to the events of SV and had already begun its collapse 1,000 years later, so The Treasures of Ruin wreaking havoc across Paldea happened sometime between then.

There’s no official word as to how long ago the events of LA take place, but some speculate about 150 years prior to DPP and Bulbapedia’s statement on the issue is ‘several hundred years’ before Generation IV.

Additionally, the merchant from the East was very likely meant to have originated from Pokémon world China due to the names of The Treasures of Ruin (Wo-Chien, Chien-Pao, Ting-Lu, Chi-Yu) and them being based off The Four Perils.

And finally, even if Volo is immortal, existed during that time, and for whatever reason decided to set aside his Arceus searching to take a trip to Paldea with some Cursed Objects in his possession, it’s blatantly stated more than once that it was The King of Paldea’s greed that caused The Treasures of Ruin to come into existence and destroy the kingdom.

I’ve seen this theory floating around and it can be so easily disproven if you just pay attention in Raifort’s class.

#volo #pokemon: legends arceus #pokemon scarlet and violet #the things I do for my blorbo

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oddestoddish · 1 year

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Let me see if the following is correct if I'm not mistaken: Odd was the protagonist of Pokémon Sword and Shield, that is, he made the journey that we players did and in the future he will be the protagonist of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, is that correct?

Basically, yep!

Originally, way back when, I was going to do separate (yet connected) stories with multiple different protagonists, but over time I ended up deciding to simply have Odd become the primary protagonist for the blog.

He'll only be officially 'champion' in Galar and Paldea, but he will be going through canon-divergent versions of almost all the core Pokémon games (with the exception of HG/SS and DPP) along with a couple others, one of which is relatively new to my plans and is mostly just playing around and experimenting with an aspect of the game it comes from.

#mod answers #dksgvz

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rhodesmusic · 10 months

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here you can find musics i've made throughout time that i've put on youtube, you could let this stuff play as go about your day, or your night, or maybe you could ask the panera bread guy to play it throughout the whole restaurant, or just maybe you could listen to it just for the sake of listening and give me your thoughts :)

(NEEDS TO BE UPDATED!! im lazy)

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453.65 Kelvin (songs made with beepbox)

Glowstick Gladiator ☆ Tear Away

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THE NEW CURRENT STATE OF RHODES MUSIC

NEON BUZZ DSCO ☆ CUT & BAND-AID ☆ FLAVORED SOAP ☆ MOSTLY FLESH ☆ THE CONCIOUSNESS OF A ROCK INSIDE THE BODY OF AN INSECT ☆ EVERY POSSIBLE SOUND IS MEANT TO BE MUSIC ☆ FLOATING DUST PARTICLES ONLY I CAN SEE ☆ LIGHT SHINES BRIGHTLY ☆ REPRISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF A LONG WINTER ☆ ANCRAOPHOBIA ☆ PHANTASMAGORIC FULMINATION ☆ THANK YOU MANUAL BREATHING ☆ I FORGOT MY STUDENT ID

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THE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING POKÉMON EMERALD GUIDEBOOK

BOOKKEEPING ☆ MY SOCKS MAY BE WET ☆ ELECTRIC CENTIPEDE ☆ .---- ---.. ---..

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songs made with audiotool

rhodes-1 ☆ rhodes-2

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Week1(?)

Day1 ☆ Day2 ☆ Day4 ☆ Day7 ☆ Day11 oak

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Bats

Prologue ☆ thats the building ☆ ays? ☆ I_CAN_MOVE ☆ Bats

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Smear of nervous tissue

collab :) ☆ randomly generated harmony ☆ omg! fish ☆ seagulls [clean ver w/out compression] ☆ infinite north / aqwe3 ☆ magic machine

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Rhodes Random Note Challenge

these are a collection of videos in which i randomly generate some numbers that are in between 1 and 12, and i convert those numbers into notes and attempt to make a song that uses those notes! there are 3 in total

not in a playlist:

DISTRICT EP [A - BUSY DAY / BLAZING IN THE SPACE ☆ B - THE TIME IS NOW / ON A RAFT ☆ C - HERE WE ARE / BLAZING IN THE SPACE] ☆ Miscellaneous Rhodes Mix #1 [ATLAS ☆ MAGIC SPIDER ☆ RHODES DEMON ☆ ALL OF THIS ] ☆ Castle of Crows piano comp ☆ Thermal Thoughts ☆ Pokemon DPP - Route 216 (Rhodes Rhemix) ☆ anti-icky_rhodetic_health_agent ☆ Isometric Sphere ☆ Firefly Departure ☆ Soda Can ☆ a wingless bee on a flower with no petals ☆ d3v3loping <- eyestrain warning! ☆ please be honest rhodes ☆ RHODES COMMUNITY PICKS: VOLUME 1 [Red Orange ☆ Inner Space ☆ Vertigo ☆ Radio ☆ The Ravine ☆ Rubber Band Music ☆ Bicycle ☆ Here We Are / Blazing in the Space] ☆ 117_TRS_CHRS_NM_NMR ☆ TPIC_B_MBIW ☆ wave your ｆｅｅｌｅｒｓ in the air ☆ time_fkery ☆ Mars With Rings ☆ Rhodes RNC #1 Extended Mix ☆ BURNT C00K1ES

and theres much more music on my discord server, more or less serving as an online archive for my old tracks (this is where the community picks came from)!

#music #my music #rhodes music #official rhodes music #rhodes music official

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mlarayoukai · 3 months

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DPP is diamond pearl platinum

Platinum is Pt so it's dppt you FAKE POKÉMON FAN!!!!!!!

#mlarayoukasks #anon

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pokepollsters · 8 months

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Dusk Ball propaganda: when I was playing pokémon DPP, I captured Heatran, Giratina, Azelf and Uxie. As they were living in caves, I threw a lot a Dusk Balls to captured them.

The Ultra Ball is just an enhanced pokéball whereas the Dusk Ball is a lot of good memories.

You heard it here folks! Any Ultra Ball fans want to counter this?

#poll propaganda #ask

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soul-sparx · 1 year

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If your favorite game is not included, consider when it came out (for example, Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness are Gen 3 titles, as they came out after RSE and before DPP)

#ramblin #pokemon #pokémon #poll

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pokehaven · 3 months

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Hi hi hi hi! I just read through the entire blog and i am SO excited!!! I have a few suggestions actually for various little things 👉👈

Okay okay so like, one of the things that keeps me coming back to PFQ is.. Boxes. It’s the boxes. I love hoarding boxes and then opening them all on special occasions! I like the concept of finding summoning items and it scratches an itch in my brain and boxes are The reason i use the scouring system.

And on that note; oh my god the PFQ scouring system sucks. It could be worse, but it’s something you just click refresh on and walk away. Boring! (Shoutouts to back in the day when you could overwork your Pokémon and they’d run away LMAO 😭😭😭) I think a good alternative would be some sort of (semi?) interactive treasure hunting system/minigame! Maybe taking cues from PMD? 👀 Send your little guys on little adventures!

This is more of a small thing, but since there’s no shelter system (from the sounds of it there’s going to be a mechanic for obtaining new Pokémon another way? Other than trading) maybe a small(?) chance to find “abandoned” Pokémon eggs/nests you can collect the eggs from! (With a chance to get attacked by the parent Mon maybe?) Though i dunno how well that’d fit the Vibes.

Also something something the mining minigame from D/P/Pt to get various stones maybe.

You can tell i like scavenging and collecting things. I’m a Murkrow at heart lol 😂 anyways thank you for your time and thank you for making this 🫡 doing Arceus’ work

Hi, anon!! There really is something about lootboxes that scratches that itch in a lot of our brains—I love it too! One of the purposes of our core features (which also happens to be very interactive!) is meant to be used to gather items/loot. Some of these items can be very rare, such as materials for crafting items for legendaries! This feature can be used as often as players like, and is meant to be used as another way to hunt specials and gather items.

I really love that abandoned Pokémon eggs/nests idea, omg! We might have to implement that, I think that could work well with the vibes we have!

A mining minigame inspired by DPP has been tossed around by our staff before, so I’m sure that will be something that gets implemented down the line! Pretty much all of us adore minigames so it won’t be an at-launch feature, but I promise you minigames WILL be on PokéHaven!

#ask #suggestions

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lunar-draws · 1 year

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After like… two years since I last drew him, I’ve redesigned my OC, Remy! He’s Riley’s(guy from DPP) younger brother and a coordinator! He has three Pokémon total, Soleilmthe Houndoom, Lumi the Frosmoth, and Ratatouille the Alolan Raticate! Ratatouille is more of a house Pokémon, so Remy never really uses him for contests, but was his first Pokémon. Soleil is his lead in contests though, typically using him in the first round. Unlike Riley, he does not use aura, nor has he ever trained to do so. There have been some lore changes since I first made him, but I’m not listing that all here, but the big one is that he’s on far better terms with Riley compared to when I first made him in 2021.

His old design and version with undies hair btw

#lunar’s art #my art #pokémon #pokémon oc #pokémon original characters #houndoom #alolan raticate #oc redesign

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answrs · 2 years

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Pokémon has always been anachronistic: Gen 1 had clunky 90's computers alongside teleportation technonogy. Later Gens, which take place a few years later (at most 10-ish years, judging by Red and Blue's ages in SuMo/USUM), have borderline Biopunk genetic engineering and portable holograms alongside contemporary technology. So color cameras existing in PLA makes perfect sense.

look i wasn't gonna respond to this because I've been feeling irritable and don't want to overreact to what should be an innocuous comment but fuck it.

the ENTIRE POINT of The Timeline Hill is because there is a small but Very Loud side of fandom that insists that PLA is a DIRECT equivalent to the 1800s because of the technology and culture (ignoring that, you know, 1800s Japan was not a completely uninhabited island with one singular town and two nomadic tribes and also I would hope you know Very Much Had essential things like basic farming and animal domestication going on well before that. DPP features historic towns and ruins of places that don't even exist yet in PLA. BDSP doesn't even have a passing mention of multiple completely extinct species, meanwhile we irl have not just first hand records but actual taxidermy specimens of animals that haven't existed for that long!

look. we are WELL AWARE this is a children's game. the lore of the setting ain't that deep beyond "yeah this is set in *hand waves* history somewhen i guess". fuck that's what makes the anachronistic elements actually fun to mess around with, it's because they're So Dumb! it's other people ascribing "well certain clothing designs are based on ONE ASPECT of 1800s Japanese culture, so the game HAS to be set EXACTLY in that irl timeframe and I Will Enforce This Fanon On Others. it doesn't make sense, which makes it a thing that very quickly sticks out in fanworks to me, which is annoying and takes me out of enjoying the work.

also a color camera isn't gonna print out a banner the size of your entire second story floor. show me the Forbidden Ancient Hisuian Photoshop or GTFO /jk

#the timeline hill #pokemon legends arceus #answrs answers #i wasn't gonna answer this but fuck it. have a ramble i just woke up #sorry if this comes out too strong but like. it's a thing

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