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jadeazora · 11 months
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James Cathcart, the current VA for James and Meowth, along with several other characters for the dub, is retiring from voice acting due to being diagnosed with cancer. (The other most well-known VA was Maddie Blaustein for Meowth, a trans woman, and Eric Stuart was the previous VA of James. He's always been Gary tho.)
It's mentioned to be advanced, with surgery not currently being an option due to the size and location of the tumor. (It's mentioned to be treatable tho.)
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runawaycarouselhorse · 11 months
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What made both her sacrifice for her team mates’ happiness in Pocket Monsters (2019)/Pokemon Journeys episode 95 and the fact that she thought this would be her end more poignant for me is that being completely alone is what Musashi hates the most. She lost her (single) mother as a child and was never adopted, going from foster home to foster home... ;_;
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After many failures (like being unable to graduate from a school meant to train literal Pokemon Nurses, because she couldn’t do what Chansey do, despite studying hard and being adept at skills like bandaging…) and having her heart broken and being disappointed (she let a boy she loved go alone so she can pursue idol dreams with some friends, who all made it… without her, so she lost a possible love for an impossible dream)…
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She couldn’t bond with her partners and left them to be injured, just to save herself, during her training days at Team Rocket. She’d become selfish and self-preserving… in the Japanese version, the others called her “shinigami Musashi” according to Yamato (Cassidy), likening her to a reaper of souls… but James refused to run away, sick of living a life where he ran away from all his problems. He’d sacrifice himself for her and Meowth’s safety, getting badly injured and nearly missing their final exam, hospitalized. The first time they uttered the beginning of their motto was when she believed she was all alone again, much like in this scene… the Rockets in the Japanese version repeat the last thing someone else says as if to answer a question (the “nanda kanda to kikare tara” = “if you ask us about this or that” is mostly filler that could be substituted with anything else.)
Musashi (Jessie): (dejectedly, as she walks away alone as the final exam begins, even being questioned by Nyasu/Meowth where she’s going): Is this all that there is…?
Kojiro (James): (answering while leaning posed against a tree, covered in bandages, but they were only wrapped over his clothes so he could whip them off dramatically) If you ask us 'if this is all that there is,' our answer will be the universe’s compassion!
She’s so moved, she turns away to wipe her tears. “A team mate who won’t run away…”
I think that’s the first time they ever see her cry.
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Jessie desperately wants family, belonging, that’s why she falls in love so quickly, she wants a family more than anything—James had everything material growing up, but not love… Musashi had near to nothing material growing up, BUT she had her mother’s love… until she lost her very, very early. They contrast each other! They’re soul mates, eternal partners, whether you ship them or not. Meowth, too, was orphaned as a kitten, never even named, and an outcast his whole life. He's also always falling in love easily, seeking a home... the trio should never be separated, they are each other’s sought-for home.
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I think the falling snow in this scene, where she runs off in tears, after wearing a brave smile and telling James it’s okay to stay with Cassidy, is a very deliberate choice, as Jessie loves snow. One of her few happy memories of her depressing childhood is being made treats made of snow to eat. She unknowingly lost her mother in the snowy Andes mountains, seeking Mew, put into foster care, while Miyamoto tried to make money to give her a better life... glittering snow and sparkling tears…
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For Meowth too, she lets him go. She just wants everyone to have their chance at love.
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So, her believing she’ll end up dying alone, as she’s always feared, Musashi here laments her luck, but also has a beautiful little dream of her friends saving her.
Once again, similarly to the break-up episode of DP, she was the one who calmly and gently encouraged James to pursue a possible love. She also broke Dustox’s pokeball, in tears, not wanting her to make the same mistake she did, giving up on an attainable love for an unattainable goal (and, indeed, Jessie did not win the Grand Festival, despite her skill at Pokemon Contests… she made the right decision for Dustox’s happiness.)
Jessie loves her friends. Sure, she’s caustic, rude, temperamental, bitter, and self-absorbed, but she prioritizes love and their happiness. She doesn’t want them to be alone and abandoned the way she felt as a kid. She loves them so much so, she’s satisfied to die alone and suffer her worst fear if it meant they get to be happy. That’s self-sacrifice.
She doesn’t resent them one bit, saying it’s a nice dream when she thinks she’s imagined them saving her life… she thought it was her mind comforting her before her death, accepting her fate, rather than realizing it’s effectively a premonition of what will be reality… and when she realizes?! She initially reproaches them, looking mad, because she thought they abandoned their happiness for her! But no, things didn’t work out… this is where they’re meant to be: by each other’s side.
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James also knows how much marriage means to her, even though he’s so traumatized by it, the word “fiance” triggers literal flashbacks for him and he climbed up a tree to get away from a teenaged girl who called him that. Yet, in XY episode 63, where she fell for Dr. White...
Kojiro: (with head down, eyes shadowed) If Musashi (Jessie) wants to pursue her happiness as a woman, shouldn't we give her our blessing?
Nyasu also had his misfortunes in love... they sympathize and empathize.
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"Let's show her we're men and leave without saying anything..."
As Kojiro runs away, he sheds tears, wishing her happiness and bidding her farewell, silently. The scenes in these two episodes are clear parallels.
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But in the end (including the final episodes, as rushed as that plotline was although I still loved Wobbuffet acting exactly like a troubled child of parents going through a messy divorce), they’ll always realize their happiness is by each other’s side as a trio.
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"Sometimes you get good pulls, sometimes you get bad ones. Sometimes they're good, even if you think they're bad. Sometimes they're bad, even if you think they're good."
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ashxketchum · 1 year
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SPRIGATITO MAKES ITS FIRST ANIME APPEARANCE IN EP133
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winemomwow · 1 year
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2023 TUMBLR LITTLEST MEOW MEOW SEMI-FINALS: ROCKETINATOR
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WE'VE FINALLY MADE IT! DESPITE THAT MEDDLESOME PLATYPUS AND TROUBLESOME PIKACHU WE ARE FINALLY IN THE SEMI-FINALS! IN ONE CORNER WE HAVE THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND, THE LAWYERNATOR, THE GOTH GIRL FAIL FATHER, SAD SCIENTIST HIMSELF -- DOCTOR HEINZ DOOFENSHMIRTZ HERE TO TEST OUT HIS FINALINATOR, YOU SEE IN ALL STARTED WHEN HE WAS A CHILD -- YOU SEE HIS FATHER ALWAYS LOVED THE TRADITIONAL TRADITION OF MARCH MADDNESS, OF COURSE BACK THEN THERE WAS NO TELEVISED GAMES SO THE PEOPLE OF GIMMELSHTUMP COULD ONLY MAKE BRACKETS BASED ON THE LOCAL CHILDREN'S BASKET BALL LEAGUE, BUT HEINZ WAS NEVER GOOD ENOUGH TO PLAY, AND WAS ALWAYS PICKED TO BE THE BASKET --- IRONICALLY THIS ACTUALLY MADE HIS FATHER PROUD BECAUSE IT MEANT HIS SON WAS FINALLY PARTICIPATING IN A BELOVED AND HONORABLE TRADITION, UNTIL HE DROPPED THE BALLL.
LITERALLY, CAUSING THEIR TEAM TO LOSE A POINT IN THE PLAY-OFFS, RUINING HIS FATHER'S OTHERWISE PERFECT BRACKET. SINCE THAT DAY HEINZ HAS VOWED HE WOULD NEVER LET A BRACKET SHAME HIM AGAIN!
AND IDK GIOVANNI SAID HE WAS GONNA CUT OFF JAMES' PENIS IF HE LOST ANOTHER BRACKET OR SOMETHING
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james-kojirou · 6 months
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The dynamic between the impulsive girl and the calmer boy that exists between Jessie and James is so precious. ❤️‍🔥
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wonlis · 8 months
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they are 100% stupid and that's why i love them
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ceejindeed · 1 year
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I think this guy right here is single-handedly responsible for my lil baby gay ass’s taste in men for the rest of my life
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galionne-artsing · 6 months
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Team Rocket blasting off agaiiin!
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jetix · 2 years
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Jessie & James (Hidden Fates)
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jadeazora · 2 months
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Y'all remember the one time the Pokemon anime had a dominatrix and her weird torture dungeon in it? (Adding to it, she paralyzes James with her Vileplume after this so that "he can't escape.")
(special mention to Brock and Misty both blushing)
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runawaycarouselhorse · 2 months
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Jessie and Meowth, dressed like "invisible" (dressed in all black and veiled) puppeteers, maneuvering James like a bunraku puppet.
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ashxketchum · 1 year
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FUECOCO MAKES ITS FIRST ANIME APPEARANCE IN EP134
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beezonia · 9 months
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Before pride month finishes I wanted to do a part 2 of my headcannons for some of my favourites!!
Hope you like!
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agentc0rn · 6 months
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Ok so this is really rough but I had to draw out @quikyu’s phenomenal suggestion/idea cause it was too good to be left there.
basically it’s team rocket + loyal three
Jessie goes with fezandipiti cause they have similar color schemes (and personality)James with munkidori also cause of their color schemes and sassy/snarky attitudes (munkidori probably has the best comebacks) . Then there’s meowth with Okidogi who are more or less at beef with each other but still work together to get the job done.
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