MY FIRST TIME WATCHING POKEMON INTROS! (1-26) | POKEMON OPENINGS REACTION 

That was indeed Ash in every opening except the Horizons one.

There was one final Ash opening that was mostly a compilation of old events because there was a very short 11 episode send off for Ash.

Pikachu: "I'll evolve as soon as Ash becomes an adult."

For the latest season 'Horizons', we have new protagonists Liko and Roy. Ash's tale had ended on a high note at the end of the 13-episode special, "To Be a Pokémon Master' which happens after 'Journeys' story with one question "What does it REALLY mean to be a 'Pokémon Master'?" He travels with Misty and Brock one more time, just traveling for traveling's sake with no big goal anymore.

He didn’t get younger the show just got more experimental with its style

I recommend you to check out the Japanese Pokemon openings they’re really great

I still can’t believe Pokemon has 25 seasons. This show will always be amazing to me

You should honestly listen to the japanese version of the XYZ opening (at 13:13) bc that version is a BANGER as well

For the new companions after Misty and Brock Orange Islands: Tracey was a Pokémon Sketch Artist. Not really based on anyone from the games. Advanced Series: May and her little brother Max. May is based on the female trainer you can pick in the Gen 3 games. Diamond Pearl: Dawn, based on the female trainer you can play as for Gen 4. Black and White: Cilan and Iris, both Gym Leaders from the Gen 5 games. Neither were very popular for the fans at the time. XY: Serena, Clemont, and Bonnie. All from the games, Serena being the female trainer or rival depending on the gender you pick. Clemont is a Gym Leader and Bonnie is his little sister. Sun and Moon: Lillie is a main character from the games. The rest are Gym Leaders. Mallow, Lana, Kiawe, and Sophocles. Pokémon Journeys: Go is an original character for the series. Probably some inspiration from the Pokémon Go mobile app.

I believe the reason why Ash and the general art style looks so different is because after the XY series everything was made in a different studio. I believe the one that made the previous anime’s were currently working on something and needed a different studio to work on it for them

I was born in the late 2000s but I remember watching the 1990/ the first season of pokemon and listening to the intro brought back memories of a simpler time

def watch the japanese openings too! most are sung by ash's voice actress

It is funny when people say ash looks younger since sun and moon because he’s always 10

8:32 So that’s because Advance Battle was the last season to be dubbed by 4kids entertainment and was acquired by the Pokemon company which lead to most of the voice actors being chanted out and the openings being shortened

I think you should react to it all. It’s a long journey but it’s amazing and I do like the new art style from Gen 7 and the story is good.

I think you should react to it all. It will take A LONG TIME to finish, since Pokémon itself hasn't ended yet, but it would DEFINITIVELY be great. There aren't many people that do react to it here, and the ones that do aren't "as good reactors as you", so I would really enjoy to see you react to it all. Even when people talk sh*t about the "most recent seasons", i would go as far to say that Pokemon only gets better and better, because there wasn't a single time, while i was watching it, that I thought "Oh, I wish Pokemon had stayed just like it was in the start" or something like that. In short, it's a great journey, and it's totally worth it watching it all.

Yes it’s still Ash, Sun and Moon artstyle change was drastic. It made my little brother want to quit watching. I was able to convince him until Master Journeys then he just quit

That second intro theme Pokemon World just SLAPS so hard

There is no best or worst song every song has its own unique charm and tries to do its own thing they can coexist not everything needs to be a competition

Man, every time I hear the 25th opening, i get hit with the feels.

Pokémon DP is my favorite series of Pokémon

I honestly like the Japanese Horizons intro better

Most people disliked the art direction of Sun and Moon anime when it was announced because it was different, myself included. Then I watched it, and realized it allowed them to do so much more with the anime. Sun and Moon seasons were a lot of fun, and felt more like a traditional anime. They started fleshing out all the characters, and got to let you have a real sense of space of where they lived, for a change. Kiawe is also second best male support after Brock. Professor Kukui also has the most personality of all the Professors, to the point where he seemed heavy handed at first, but it was just because were used to every Professor besides Oak being a cardboard stand in, and even he stopped getting good moments after the 4th movie. Or Professor Ivy's plot. The plot that Brock liked. But Kukui's a real one.

The first opening for Pokemon Advanced is incredibly nostalgic to me. Gen 3 was my starting point for Pokemon. I did go back and watch the seasons from Kanto and Johto, but Advanced and D&P were the generations from my childhood. I watched a good portion of Black & White, but in all honesty, that's around the point I stopped watching entirely (around 12yo). I went back and watched a few episodes of XY, but never got into it. I still collect the cards to this day though. Pokemon has had a great impact on my life.

You forgot the second opening of Pokemon Ultimate Journeys which paid tribute to Ash and the end of his journey.

its funny how so many people react to the english openings first but not the japanese ones… for the first several seasons the eng ones are iconic sure but the jp ones are pure joy to listen to 😭 and the newer ones are so hype too. good reaction tho hope to see a follow up soon 👍

I'd suggest doing the Japanese openings too. They're way longer and way more consistent.

the amazing thing with the first pokemon black & white intro is when it was being shown in japan all the pokemon were silhouettes until they were shown in an episode so as the series got further more of the pokemon were shown fully in the intro animation.

There is currently 9 generations and 1025 Pokémon

Yes there's tournaments in each region (a region lasts like 3-4 season and each region introduce new places, pokemons, characters). Ash tries to collect eight badges so he can participate in the Pokemon League. He goes through a lot of problems in his adventure but you can see him get evolve in each region.

Yooooo, he’s on Pokémon now!!

sun and moon was very controversial when it came out. The drastic shift in art style fit the vibe they were going for with those seasons but off the back of how much X&Y looked like a proper battle shonen it definitely had a very mixed reception. I personally loved the sun and moon seasons, the story was well done and the more slice of life, episodic nature fit the tone of the alola region. Plus the actual animation was the best it had ever been, everything was super smooth and flowed amazingly. Unfortunately because so many people didn't like the art style the animation doesn't tend to get the praise it deserves. However I also highly recommend checking out some of the battles from the XYZ series because as you noted in the openings, the battles in that series were phenomenal and lightning fast. They are right up there with amazing action scenes from any shonen anime

been a charmander boy forever a charizard boy, but I also like treeckop and sceptile, and swampert/mudkip

The first Pokémon theme from the original series indigo league is still such a freaking tune, when it pops up on shuffle on Spotify it’s turned up loud every time ❤

So Ash was in every intro aside from Horizons - the 1st in the series to not feature Ash at all. Galactic Battles had 2 English intros where it focused around the 6th & 7th gyms respectively, Adventures in Unova had 3 intros that focused on 3 main arcs: the Unova League, N & Team Plasma, & the Decolore Islands that lead back to Kanto. The reason Ash looks different in Sun & Moon intros onwards was during the Gen 7 era it was more slice of life, Journeys takes place during Gen 8 the Galar Region

The hoenne theme just hits diff for me

Awesome reaction. If you decide to react to the series, I recommend the Diamond and Pearl series. I’m not sure if it’s the best series (I stopped after gen 6) but it’s definitely a good one. The 4 movies during this generation are really good. The Rival and one of the villain arcs are also very good.

You should react to it all that would be ameizing

Ash was in all of them except for Horizons because Ash’s journey ended in Pokemon Journeys, and Horizons is the next protagonists journey.

Man there are soo many good pokemon op’s

If you love the shonen-style of anime. You HAVE to watch Pokémon XY and XYZ! The animation, music and overall vibe is simply amazing.

No way your gonna watch the entirety of the Pokemon series.

It’d be a certainly long journey but it’d be cool to see all of them. I may be able to send a list of all the movies and OVAs that shows the best order to watch those with the show

To help clear up some confusion about where the OPs take place in: 1-2 Kanto/Orange Islands (gen 1) Ash, Misty, Tracy and Brock 3-5 Johto (gen 2) Ash, Misty and Brock 6-9 Hoenn/Kanto (gen 3) Ash, May, Max and Brock 10-13 Sinnoh (gen 4) Ash, Dawn and Brock 14-17 Unova (gen 5) Ash, Iris and Cilan 18-20 Kalos (gen 6) Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie 21-23 Alola (gen 7) Ash, Kiawe, Lana, Mallow, Lillie, Sophocles and Rotom Dex 24-25 Galar/worldwide (gen 8) (theme is travelling to many different regions rather than staying in just one) Ash and Goh 26 Paldea (gen 9) Liko and Roy Ash does not appear in Horizons because his tale is complete, and the show will now focus on new characters instead of Ash (the Pikachu that appears in the Horizons OP is a different one). Misty stopped traveling with Ash due to needing to look after the Cerulean Gym, and Brock stopped after Sinnoh to focus on being a Pokemon Doctor, hence the different lineups of traveling companions after Johto. Also important to note that some episodes have been banned or unaired in some countries for a variety of reasons (usually a natural disaster in Japan or racism/violence concerns), with the most notable happening in gens 1, 2, 5 and 7. For more information check here: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Banned_episodes That aside I really enjoy most of the English OPs, with one of my favorites being Unbeatable (Advanced Battle theme).

i watched all the anime that aired with regular Saturday morning cartoons, but i didnt realize or consider it was something different until i stumbled across Inuyasha airing on adult swim one night

you should do the japanese ones, particularly the ones for XY/Z.

Id say watch Kanto, Sinnoh, Kalos Alola and Journeys

Johto themes are my favorites. For a little context to you’re question of Ash rotation of his team every new region he started fresh with only Pikachu being in every team obviously. He he only brought back some very few times for specific battles.

14:44 oh you shouldve been there when these seasons were airing. NOONE was happy. Xy and XYZ were peak pokemon with the greatest story and a proper mature art style, then the animators went with the childish artstyle and the story was nothing compared to XYZ, like it was a normal pokemon season story. But XYZ left pokemon fans expecting the next season to be another banger... but sadly it was not. Its still controversial but the talks have died down cuz ash has left the anime

3:10 When I hear this one I just think about Nathan Sharp's cover ft. MatPat 😊

Why not Japanese version

Pokemon has more episodes then one piece you would be here for years watching it it took me about 7 months to watch

Ok so all the first 2 gen themes have extended versions of them bc they were in a movie or on a CD. Like johto journeys have a remixed version in the 3rd movie but the same singer as the normal version but that extended song is on the CD. Only unbeatable has an extended theme ( all the movie ones are around like 2-3 mins longer) battle frontier has a little extended version but only about 40 seconds longer. Then skipping ahead to gen4. The tenth movie has we will be heroes ( kind of a remix) more of a rock version and longer. Then op 12 has a movie version and 13 d9es in the last ep of sinnoh when ash is imagining him fighting cynthia. Gens 5 and 6 themes all have movie versions and the journeys is an actual song sung by a band lol.

I have started watching the show when I was 6 years old (found it zapping through the TV when I got home from school and my father still prepared lunch) which was when they aired the seasons in Hoenn and later Sinnoh in my country. Especially the ones in Sinnoh (Diamond Pearl/ Galactic Battles, that era) were really good. Heard a few years later that the X/Y seasons were good, so I checked them out and liked that Ash felt more mature. Really felt like, despite them officially never saying it of course, that he had aged and developed. Long story short, to answer your question: I hated what they did with the Sun/Moon artstyle change. Felt like they regressed Ash back to be more childish for no real reason.

It's still ongoing

I'm biased as I started at XY amd XYZ but I definitely recommend you to start there as well as it is the most popular series for good reason.

Yea I remember when the poster for Sun and Moon came out with the different art style. Controversial to say the least. And God I just realize that gen is nearly a decade old. Also since you done Pokemon and YuGiOh you should check out the Digimon openings

You should listen to the Japanese openings too

The English version are just an abbreviated version of the Japanese Openings, highly recommend them. By abbreviated, i mean there are more good visuals and different songs (the english version arent translated songs)

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Him saying that sun and moon ash is like his son 🤣

I'm glad you noticed how drastically bad the art style got after X/Y. I literally stopped watching from Alola on. I was so disappointed because the show looked so good in the Kalos series.

ot's ash and pickachu in sun moon series

Pokémon Seasons (1-13) Kanto Region = Ash And Misty And Brock Pokémon: Indigo League Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands = Ash And Misty And Tracy Johto Region = Ash And Misty And Brock Pokémon: The Johto Journeys Pokémon: Johto League Champions Pokémon: Master Quest Hoenn Region = Ash And May And Max And Brock Pokémon: Advanced Pokémon: Advanced Challenge Pokémon: Advanced Battle Kanto Region = Ash And May And Max And Brock Pokémon: Battle Frontier Sinnoh Region = Ash And Dawn And Brock Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors Seasons (14-present) Unova Region Pokémon the Series: Black & White Pokémon: Black & White: Rival Destinies Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova and Beyond Kalos Region Pokémon the Series: XY Pokémon the Series: XY Kalos Quest Pokémon the Series: XYZ Alola Region Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon - Ultra Adventures Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon - Ultra Legends Every Region + Galar Region Pokémon Journeys: The Series Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series Paldea Region Pokémon Horizons: The Series

As someone whos first pokemon was XY, i simply cant watch the original ones because the animation and the graphics throw me off, and the battles in XY(Z) are simply legendary. For the longest time i thought the XY version of the pokemon theme was the original😂. But i dont diss anyone who prefers the original

yesss I'm so excited I LOVE POKEMON! so much please react to the show pretty please 💜💜❤❤

You should watch the beyblade burst opening

The fact I havent seen pokemon since pokemon frontier battles, yet I know exactly where their pokemon game counter part are, just because some characters they use. Lol. Storywise pokemon black and white is the best from the games

Such a shame most of these didn't get a full song, or even added to Spotify

14:38 Yes, Ash had married Serena in the end of XY&Z and had his son Len that is the protagonist of Sun & Moon

my biggest issue with the modern english openings is how much shorter they are than the older and japanese openings. The songs are so good but we rarely get to hear the full versions of the songs. Anyways for gen 1 starters, i usually pick bulbasaur, but i grew up with yellow so i always boxed my pikachu and got all 3 ;p

I mean, I was not the biggest fan of the animation style changing, but at the end of the day it’s not a big deal

Ash has left us 😢😢😢

Ash's art style changes since gen 2 lol

Please react to Pokémon I would so watch that

I suscribed

The sheer drop from intensity when it left xyz to sun and moon made me lose a lot of interest in Pokémon, wasn’t a fan of any of their intro really, but journeys really brought me back to

It boggles my mind that everyone is completely missing out on the Pokemon Horizons second OP. Also Horizons is a brand new Pokemon series with a new protagonist and I highly recommend as it is only 38 episodes so far in subs. Ash has been retired.

Ash is in every opening except the last one. They switch up the companions every new generation.

I vividly remember watching the first season multiple times due to reruns. I kept watching it but less frequent in the seasons after. Probably after the third season I started to watch it sporadically and around the time Misty dipped, I also dipped. I think I just grew out of the Pokémon age bracket and the show was just repeating itself at that point and I didn't care for new characters coming in to replace the characters I loved. I also really disliked Ash getting new Pokémon and saying goodbye to most of them.

Some of these are way better in Japanese ngl

You should watch the japanese ones, while the others decrease a bit in epicness the japanese ones periodically increase in epicness. Also, until Horizons is same old Ash, in Horizons is the new protagonist, Liko, and no, she's not related to Ash.

XYZ was Peak no doubt

Man i was hoping for the Japanese version

Dang bruv 32 I'm 35 ur hairs looking good though bruv

We don’t talk about the sun and moon art style. No one liked it. And XYZ was peak

check out the video Pikachu vs. Charizard 💥 | Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series | Official Clip (spoiler alert!), its ash's final battle

Please react to all the japanese openings!

Pokemon has more episodes than One Piece

you should also react to some of tha japaneese intros as they are also so good

Man everyone reacts to the english versions and miss the latest one which is the best one... react to the japanese versions theyre vastly superior

MAN I LOVE POKÉMON XYZ IDK WHY-

I’d recommend checking out all of the Beyblade openings.

If tou want to react to pokemon without worrying about all the filler rhat drags down certain parts. I have a list that says which ones ade skip able. And believe i keeo anything that is even slightly important.

Well, Pokemons are big shot to start react

the art style went to shit with sun and moon they didnt make it better for the next gen pokemon is lazy now days we dont even get full pokedexs in games anymore

I stopped watching once they changed ashes art style I couldn't look at him like that

Oh wow... they really butchered the English opening for the Gen 8 anime huh?

English english opening is better than japanese

Great reaction But I think you need to watch the Japanese openings