Pokémon Sun and Moon Anime Review 

Alola! And Happy New Year 🎉

Alola is like Ash's second home and with the league win, it's even more significant in his career as a trainer

I really like how Team Rocket was handled this saga. They were consistently fun to watch for the first time since DP. On top of that, there was a greater focus on the personalities of their pokemon. Seeing them complete in the league was also pretty cool.

The fact that this isn't a travel series made it so the side characters showing up during the league feels more impactful.

I was a Sun and Moon hater too. I never gave it a chance, because of the art style. I watched it about a year ago, and ill say this. I teared up more during Sun and Moon then i have for any other series.

Is everyone ignoring the fact that Ash's mom/Delia battled with Litten

In the English dub Kartana talking is just English played in reverse. "I cut a worthless object"

Watching the Sun and Moon anime felt like you were actually with Ash on vacation. The art style got very weird at times but I love how the game and anime deviated from the norm and both really worked. The characters are actually really fleshed out, especially Lillie and her family.

honestly the comedy art styles gives people free meme templates

Personally, I think Sun and Moon has some of the best episodes. Like Litten's past and Kukui's wedding.

When you realise ash hasn’t gotten a gym badge since Kalos

Imma just say Kukui is the father Ash never had and that is why I love Aloha so much lol.

I came back in XYZ after not having watched the series regularly since AG, so SM's reveal was a real shock. And boy, the roasting it got from fans was particularly intense, and honestly? I didn't much care for it at first either. But I decided to give it a chance, and I don't regret it. It was a really fun series, had plenty of heartfelt and amazing moments (I legit cried when Ash won the League and after the battle with Kukui), and captured the fun and relaxed atmosphere of the Alola region perfectly. I really liked the cast too and how they were sort of an extended family for sh.

No professor will ever top Kukui, never ever.

The last Pokémon video for the year. Pokémon the series: Sun and Moon Pokémon the series: Sun and Moon: Ultra Adventures Pokémon the series: Sun and Moon: Ultra Legends

I got into Pokemon because my friend who sadly passed away from cancer gave me a 2DS and gave me a Sun and Moon game, I played it and enjoyed the game a lot. I decided to give the series a chance, and this was the first time I got into Pokemon. I loved the atmosphere of Alola and Ash's pokemon, and how free they are. I continued off of SM to Journeys and noticed a big difference in how they act and it felt off, but SM introduced that kind of laid back concept. I love SM series a lot, with great character arcs and everything. It's amazing, and I like it. We all have our preferences, and I like SM.

I think Sun and Moon was my favorite in the series because it truly captured what the Pokémon world was about beyond just constant battling. It was to enjoy a vibrant world with magical creatures and close friends. This was helped by all the companions having ample screentime and their Pokémon always being out of their pokeballs. For once, every Pokémon had a discernible personality and it showed.

I absolutely agree with your message at the end Zac. Of course we have our preferences, what we like and dislike, but we shouldn’t judge a series for what it is not. We shouldn’t compare it to XYZ and that’s coming from someone who started off pokémon from the gen 6 games and anime. XYZ and SM are both wonderful in their own ways and us fans shouldn’t have to argue!

When Lillie finally touched Pokémon and had that end card with all of them, definitely emotional

let's not forget at the end of the last episode we were hinted at Ash's Alolan little brother.

I personally really like the expressions in the Alola season: while I do understand why you say that they feel forced, I still find myself laughing at them, and one of this arc's highlights. ^^

Turn out kartana in the anime speaks backwards it’s saying “once again I cut a worthless object”

Reality Ensures: Ash had previously *left his Pokemon at Oak's laboratory* in Kanto, regardless of where they were originally from, without addressing if any non-Kantonian Pokemon felt like they missed their old home region. This is *not* the case however *for Rowlet, Lycanroc, Incineroar, and Melmetal in Alola.* While they did help Ash win the Alola League, Ash realizes they'd be homesick if he took them back to Kanto with him, and entrusts them with Professor Kukui and Professor Burnet: home in Alola, *and he remains firm to this decision when he revisits them in a later episode of Journeys.*

I cannot disagree with TSS more when he says the comedy and art style wasn't good in this series. It was the right kind of silly and felt fun. Honestly to me this is one of my favourite series and felt more relaxed and less stressful due to the slice of life nature it had. I love slive of life and casual comedy and the facial expressions in this series was THE BEST! They were over the top silly and when the art was weird it was hillarious! This series was wholesome and silly and just made me laugh and feel relaxed every time I saw an episode. Honestly this series is SUPER underrated.

10:51 saw a quote from the animator making this scene with Lillie jumping rope with all the pokemon. He said "I felt like I was gonna die".

Lillie was literally the Rogue of this series and it made me Happy when she could actually touch pokemon just like when Rogue was finally in control her powes😁🔥🔥

Even thinking about some of the moments such as Litten losing stoutland and Mallow’s mum make me emotional. Sm is just so fantastic.

everyone hates the animation style, but I actually think it's cool! It fits the way more humorous style of SM which I also absolutely love!

NGL the guy who wasn't using the English names was kinda annoying me

I have been scrolling through these comments and I am surprised that many people still hate on this anime. I think half of these people have not even watched the entire series. I myself was not sure if this series was gonna be good at the starting. However as it went on I grew to love this season. I agree that the voice acting and animation style may be annoying and ash might act a little childish(This is a show for 7 year olds) but when you look past that you find out that Sun and Moon is much more than that. The plot is beautiful and deviates from the regular pattern of Pokemon. Honestly, I needed the change. The league is the best league arc. The whole story is beautiful and concentrates more about enjoying life with Pokemon and not always being power hungry. Ash learned this lesson is Kalos. He always wanted to get straight to to the battle and did not concentrate on what was most important. It was being one with Pokemon and enjoying life with them. PS- I don't know my favorite Pokemon season. Currently it is a tie between XY and Sun and moon. :). Please dont hate on my comment...this is just my honest opinion. Edit: Tysm for the likes! I mostly get like 3 likes.

SM wasn’t my favorite series. But I still appreciate it for what it did have that I really liked about it.

He should make a rating every Pokémon movie

Sun and moon was the series I liked more from all others.

Professor Kukui was the Best Pokedad in the series!! Im happy we finally got to see Ash's Dad after so long😁🔥

Rotom Dex fills the "You're hard to like, but even harder to hate" category for me.

As a wise monster once said Ohana means family, family is never left behind.

Alola is SO OVERHATED. I watched all of Kanto, Sinnoh, and Alola on the Pokemon website this spring during quarantine, and I might like Alola more than Kanto. The filler episodes in Alola didn't even feel like filler, and it really serves as a great intro to the Pokemon world, especially to people who have dreams other than Pokemon stuff. It felt a lot more relatable than other Pokemon seasons.

this anime brought back the humerous side of the anime since sinnoh

A reason why the Alola League is my favorite league, one not covered in Zacs review, is because of the symbolism. The Alola League makes up for all of Ashes previous league losses all at once. 1.) Ash defeated Hau with his Rowlet after it fell asleep. This avenges his Indigo League loss when Charizard fell asleep against Richie’s Pikachu for refusing to battle it. 2.) Ash defeated a fire starter Pokémon (Kukuis Incineroar) with his own fire starter (Torracat) to avenge his loss in the Johto league when Charizard lost to Blaziken. 3.) Ash won his battle against Hau with Rowlet wearing clothing resembling Decidueye to avenge his loss in the Hoenn league after Tyson beat Ash with his Meowth wearing clothing. 4.) Ash defeated 2 legendaries (Gladion’s Sivally and Tapu Koko) AND had 2 legendaries of his own on his team (Melmetal and Naganedel, an ultra beast) to avenge his loss against Tobias’s Darkrai and Latios in the Sinnoh League. 5.) Ash defeated Kukui’s Lucario to avenge his loss to Cameron’s Lucario in the Unova league. 6.) Ash defeated his edge lord rival (Gladion) and not only survived, but absorbed, a BURASTO BAN to avenge his loss to Alain in the Kalos league. And to top it all off 7.) Ash surpasses his final hurdle and wins his final battle of the league, as a champion, with his starter Pokémon and longtime partner Pikachu instead of regional aces.

I can't wait to watch this after re-watching Diamond and Pearl. It's unique, does something different, characters are all diverse, colorful and likeable, the Alola League was great and finally gave Ash the win, Team Rocket is actually not annoying compared to other series andthe anime can get hilarious especially the facial expressions. I literally died from laughter due to how hilarious some of the facial expressions. Never thought it was bad right now and found them hilarious, as absurd and stupid as the facial expressions can get.

This is easily my favorite Pokémon series. I feel this series is by far the best when it comes to paying off things that were built up like Littens past, Lillies story, and the final battle with Kukui and Ash winning the League. And since this series wasn’t building off of the previous Pokémon series formulas, it was able to relax and have fun with it. And that’s the number one thing I will call this series fun. And even then the series did an amazing job at balancing both fun and heart. This is probably the only Pokémon series to make me cry. And while not every character was able to shine as much as others, I still really love the dynamics and I’d argue that this group feels the most like family imo especially with the father son dynamic with Ash and Kukui that I really admired here. The series also did some really gutsy stuff I really loved like with Litten, Lillie, and Mallow

Sun and moon is easily my favorite series: I love the themes and random humor, and the slice of life honestly works so much better for Pokémon than traveling style of the first 6 gens. Stuff like littens capture never coulda been pulled off in any other series

SM was the series that got me into Pokemon. I did watch a few episodes of OG, BW and XY but I was never really invested in the story, but something about SM just got me hooked. I guess I was interested in Lillie's story and I enjoyed the slice of life setting. After Nebby was introduced I started to wait each day to watch the next episode. I didn't know anything about the games so it was all surprising and exciting for me. When the league started coming out in Japanese I was already caught up and it was so exciting to watch Ash actually win the league! 🎉

Personally I love the series,and you can't really get mad at the art style when literally every other series after it had the same style,and,you know,the pokemon are cuter,I'm just disappointed that it didn't have more battles,since they definitely were the best part of the show

I still like Sun and Moon. I'll admit it was cringy at times, but it was still enjoyable to watch.

Alola guys!! I built up a crush on Mallow while watching Sun and Moon😍🙈

Litten is the Pokemon with the saddest episodes, maybe the butterfly flying off was sad, but THIS IS ANOTHER LEVEL, IM NOT CRYING YOU ARE! 😭

the sun and moon series really surprised me. at first, I thought that I wouldn't like sun and moon at first, but after watching the series, it became my favorite pokemon series

Great video. I also really like the fact that the pokemon in Sun and Moon are not only tools that come out in battle but they´re also characters with their own personalities, with arcs and relationships with their trainers and to other pokemon like Rowlet with toucannon, meltan and decidueye, pikachu with tapu koko and mimikyu, the friendship with team rocket and bewear and her stufful and even the ultrabeast with some of them being threats like Guzzlord, just relatively malicious like pheromosa or being good ultrabeast like kartana (which lacked common sense because he wanted to prove that he could cut anything but was portrayed to be honorable like a samurai and said goodbye to Ash/Satoshi), buzzwhole that just wanted to flex his strength and poipole that was there literally just to save his world and that was part of Ash/Satoshi´s team. All of this was also possible due to the fact that unlike other series, in Sun and Moon the pokemon are outside their pokeballs most of the time, compared to other series where they for the most part only come out when there´s a battle or a training episode for a specific pokemon. On a side note: I don´t think Mallow got a bad treatment in the ending. I think that she being able to properly say goodbye to all the people (and pokemon) that is important to her which ties to the fact that she didn´t get to have a proper goodbye with her mom at the time. I also want to point out the fact that Kartana´s noises actually have meaning. You just need to hear it backwards. It says something like "another useless object cut with my sword" or something like that.

I like rotom dex he’s chill he’s like a Brock 3.0

The ending broke my heart😣😭😭 I need ash back in alola Do u guys agree

Journeys wrapped up Lillie and her dads arc very well , and I loved the sun and moon anime at first I wasn’t happy they got away from the xyz style but when I gave sun and moon a chance I loved it and watched it every episode glad I did

In my book Pokemon Sun and Moon anime is a 10/10

Fans before sun and moon: Pokémon has gotten too repetitive it’s the same show every season Fans after sun and moon and during journeys: ITS TOO DIFFERENT I MISS THE ORIGINAL FORMULA 😭 Make up ur minds

Well…

“Do the thing zac” *FILLER* Zac I’m the background: OH GOD IT WONT STOP

28:15 *OH GOD, IT WON'T STOP!*

A L O L A ❤️🌴☀️🏆

Was waiting for this review on my all time favorite gen and region! And to end this shitty year on a great note! Thanks so much for all your Pokémon reviews Zac my man! Love SM to the death and I always will. Here’s to a great happy new year!!! 🎊🎉💥🔥✨💫🌟🎆

This series straight up made me cry. Super awesome series indeed.

Sun and Moon let's go!! New direction and trying to break some parts of the stale formula Full of wholesome moments and it genuinely feels like Ash's second home. Heck, the ideology he stands for is literally everywhere around him here!

I was a little concerned about the "Sun & Moon" series at first, but it eventually became my 3rd favorite Pokemon anime series, and it always will be. Happy New Year, Lumiose Trainer Zac!!!

I love the sun and moon series and I'm upset about people hating it.

Still crying about the episode with Litten and Stoutland, plus that symbolism with the last leaf falling off of that tree scene and I immediately knew that Stoutland was gone and I immediately bawled my eyes out. ALSO EVEN MORE SO when Litten, now a Torracat, met Stoutland again in the fog and he wanted to show how powerful he's gotten - again, immediate tearsssss. As much as the animation and art style changed, I think it suited the series pretty well. The usual art style of sharp lines and edges wouldn't suit Alola, I think the softer look of Ash and everyone suited this series better. Idk about journeys tho -3-

So we finally made it. The last series review just in time for the end of the year. Overall, this series slammed. It was nice to see a fair stance on each series detailing the good and the bad parts of each. Plus it was great seeing the anipoke community come over and collab. I had a lot of fun these last few weeks watching these reviews. Great job and Happy New Year.

Welp, it’s all come down to this. POG

I will never be able to understand why people despise the expressive art style of Sun and Moon. I fucking love the expressions, reactions, and the bouncy and stretch animation of this series. To me, it's like XYZ was an UFOTable anime compared to a Trigger anime. One is consistently pretty and polished in its art style, while the other is more fluid and expressive in its animation.

8:55 hits different now that we know what happened

So Lillie totally had a crush on Ash right? That look on her face as she was saying goodbye at the end was a total giveaway right?

Zac and team. Thank you for providing us your overall Pokemon series reviews. It has been a great December with you all, and I will soon re-watch these once time permits.

Lol Pokémon fans are insane this is the only season that doesn’t look cookie cutter generic anime and it gets so much hate despite how good the animation is , sooo many frames

The Pokemon games made me love Lillie, but looking back at her anime counterpart makes me happy as well

I’m not gonna watch this review live as I’m spending time with family. I’ll come back and watch it though before New Years. Great series and the Pokémon anime will always be one of my favorites

A series i was struggling to find motivation to watch each week ended up being one of my most loved and even made me sad to see it go. Thanks for the fun Series Review videos, and have a Happy New Year!

I can't wait to see you do Journeys in 2022. lol Jokes aside, this has been an amazing time watching all these reviews. Very fun, comedic, well-written, and overall worth my time with every video. Thanks for all of these Zac and Happy New Year. :D

I feel like there are some things missing, like how Suiren is basically the badass of the group with being a jack of all trades and very competetive outside of Pokemon battles. Anyway, the change they made to the Aether-foundation arc was my favorite thing. Lusamine in the games was just a monster that I actually really wished would have found her end when you defeat her, which is NOT what I should be feeling towards anyone in a Pokemon game. So when the anime changed the antagonist from "Psycho mother" to "too ambigious scientist" I was very happy. Pushing the villain role from Lusamine over to Faba just works better as an entire evil Aetherfoundation was just not believable to begin with. Faba also made for a good villain as he really is not evil but was just too ambigious to care for safety and then just wiped away the evidence of his mistakes. It humanizes him instead of just giving us a bad guy to dislike, which overall is more in line with Pokemon villains. I feel similar about Team Skull being a gang of misfits and angsty teens rather than being a American style gang that literally took over and walled off a city! They were, fittingly to the theme of Alola, a family that had each other while they rejected the other people of Alola.

A fitting video to end 2020. The series that literally made me pretty emotional. Love this series with all my heart.

I loved the breakdown of the series! Something key that was looked over was the arch with Misty and Brock coming for a few episodes, this series even had continuity to previous friendships Ash had prior to his time in Alola. They really blended Misty and Brock to the cast of SM seamlessly.

I hated sun and moon when I first heard of it but whenever I came back to pokemon since 2015, I came back last month and I have just feel in love with sun and moon as my all time favorite.

"Why do people look weird in tne background?" uh...because they're in the background? Why do people complain about it when there's no real reason to? Also the comedy was fine. Way better and less cringy than yokai watch.

Its finally time for my fav region review. This is my second fav series and I honestly want to hear hat he says about the problems. I find it perfect.

This series was fantastic Zac and everyone else you did a great job

Like most I was a bit perplexed but you warm up quite quickly to Alolas charms. The fluid animation, on point humour and heartwarming characters and stories makes this the definitive pokemon series.

I can't wait for Journeys review. My predictions on who is gonna be in the journeys review is Crasher wake, Infamous trainer and Hydrid hero.

The live chat was a massacre so I chat here, 🎆HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!🎆

Officially claim the “Here before the Premiere” while you still can!

Happy New Year and Great Video Series!

Pokémon Sun and Moon was definitely one of the best series. What I love most about this series is the Ash’s Rowlet, Rotom Pokédex ,Jessie’s Mimikyu, Bewear, the comedy, character developments, battle animations and most of all the Ash winning the Alola League and finally becoming a true champion! 😁

The sun and moon anime is probably my favorite of the series. And watching your review still reminds me of that.

I'm so glad I gave this series a second chance because there was so many good moments of this series. A lot of people (myself included) didn't like the sudden shift in artstyle coming from the most anime-like of the series in XY but the battles of this series is still freaking top notch. Ash may seem a lot more "goofy" but his badass battle prowess from XY is still there and, of course, he finally wins a league. And this series did a good job in tackling personal issues when it needs to such as death and acceptance. This series hits a lot of high points and probably the only lows I can say about it is that balancing that many characters at once can be tedious at times.

Maybe what should've happened is that when Ash enrolled at the school, he and Lillie are the only students in Professor Kukui's class. Then have a 4 to 5 part arc of Ash and Lillie finding other students. Maybe that way the pacing of Ash properly befriending Lana, Mallow, Kiawe, and Sophocles would feel more natural. Maybe during this arc that's how Lillie will meet Snowy and touch other Pokemon, and more glimpses of her backstory.

I think the art style was great it gave ash so much emotion and movement. The art style also really help for the tone of the anime where their was not much battles and more character based. As for the stick figure well you where not supposed to be zoomed in and paused in the first placed.

I’ve rewatched sun and moon like 50 times I’m obsessed with it

20:35 Entity and Rotomdex lips synchronize😅

You guys missed the companion reunion...God Brock-o and Misty deserved a screentime after so long

Pokemon sun and moon is my favorite pokemon anime series and 3/5 of my favorite pokemons are there

Happy New Year Everyone! Thank you so much for the opportunity to be on this review bro I really appreciate it!👊🏾🎉

10:51 I had to pause the video because I was DYING seein turtonator spinning in a circle. That was HYSTERICAL

Tbf I don't understand the argument about lower quality of people in the background. It was just it's artstyle, focusing on the main thing - smooth animations. And for the over the top faces, they didn't annoy me not so much. It was so refreshing after watching all other series, where they had mainly the same faces or when they used the same shocked O_O face etc. And filler being filler, but they were much more interesting than e.g. XY. It's also worth mentioning, but SM had the least amount of CotDs (Character of the Day), because many of them returned in later episodes. So fillers didn't feel the same.

You did such an awesome job with this series of videos. It was so awesome revisiting all these shows. You and your friends did a great job pointing out flaws and the best parts of each series. I shared a lot of the same opinions and realized a lot more stuff about each series. In conclusion: The Pokemon Anime series is A MESS. But it’s a fun mess. It’s why I keep coming back. They definitely could do a better job with the writing and adapting the games better but in the end it’s a great anime series that so many people enjoy and kids can make memories and look back with nostalgia for easier times. Great job as always my man.