Before you get too hyped there don’t appear to be any actual pokemon in this world:
The series will tell the story of Madoka Akagi, a young girl who moves to Tokyo and becomes enthralled with the world of Pokémon when her mother gifts her a Game Boy and a copy of Pokémon Red.
Feels like another entry in the “full length, live action commercials” series. Joining Tetris, BlackBerry, Barbie, Jobs, GI Joe, Social Network, Transformers, and even Star Wars since licensing and derivative products make more money than their actual tv and movie content.
I really dislike this trend, even if some of the movies are sometimes good. Feels icky and insincere.
Pokemon and most anime in general, or anything else targeted at children, always was and will be a commercial. That’s not even necessarily a bad thing, since a lot of them aim at being good enough that people want merch.
I don’t disagree on anime/children’s content or even Star Wars to an extent but since this is a Pokémon show with no actual Pokémon I think it falls under the corporate commercial category more than anything else.
BlackBerry was a commercial? For a dead company?
BlackBerry still exists and is a pretty big publicly traded company, they just don’t do phones anymore.
Does BlackBerry exist or does RIM?
I agree with what you’re saying but the BB example doesn’t fit for me.
That’s fine, still feels icky to me personally to watch movies glorifying real life corporations. Not really my idea of entertainment.
Check out BlackBerry.com, that brand name recognition definitely isn’t going to waste. They just serve the enterprise sector now.
Makes sense. Even back in its hardware heyday, BlackBerry leaned on its strong security reputation to mainly market itself to business/enterprise users and was the only hardware trusted by high security sectors of the US government.
No Pokémon: then why mention Pokémon then.
That wasn’t what I expected but it looks like it could be a novel show
the trailer is full of musical cues player may recognize
I really dislike Gen 1’s music. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s more that anyone that ever makes a video about Pokemon has used the theme or Route 1 or Viridian Forest in said video. There’s plenty of other great scores throughout the franchise, but we gotta cling to these because nostalgia.
Idk, maybe I’m just getting old and jaded with this company clinging to “muh nostalgia” like Ethel clinging to life support.
Lavender town remix fuckin slaps though lol
