#Celebi: A Timeless Encounter

[runawaycarouselhorse]

[kokocharm]

anyways heres my tier list of all the movies i've watched thus far (i watched black and white first for nostalgia and went completely off the deep end btw, thats why those movies are here)

(list under the cut, there will be spoilers for movies 1, 2000, 3, 4ever, white, genesect and sword of justice)

1. The First Movie / Mewtwo Strikes Back . it made me very sad it was so much more upsetting than i remembered . also Mew was there and thats one of my favs soooooo

2. 4Ever / Celebi: A Timeless Encounter . Literally the cutest yet most gut wrenching shit ive seen ao far in a POKEMON MOVIE. Sam is one of my favs hes so sweet <3 bonus points for Suicune btw !! Suicune was always a fav when i was younger and now i know why

3. White - Victini and Zekrom . get cold loser THEY FR GOT ME I THOUGHT VICTINI LEGIT DIED but it didnt it was all fine. I felt so bad for Ash that must have been fucking terrifying dude☹️ but its ok they all got macroons at the end

4. Genesect and the Legend Awakened . the runt genesect was so cute i loved it Also congrats to Mewtwo for its transfem transition im so proud of it🥳

5. Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice . Virizion stays winning🗣️🗣️🗣️ also kyurem chasing keldeo around made me giggle a bit im so sorry

6. 2000 . The fourth wall break at the end killed me . Team Rocket coming to help Ash was so sweet <33 i have to admit i might have to rewatch this cus i was like half asleep when i did but Lugia is one of me and my brothers favs so WOOHO . Lugia's one of the chillest mfs out here next to Suicune love that for it

7. Pokémon 3 . What was even happening in this movie😭. Anyway, was NOT expecting childhood trauma/grief to be handled in a POKÉMON MOVIE but they did do a fair job at it in my opinion. The entire movie was legit insane and let me tell ya i was NOT expecting deliah to get FUCKING KIDNAPPED?? BY ENTEI???? but you only live once ig so good on her (spoiler alert i do not like deliah very much...!!! )

[fuckyeahpokemonmovies]

[milkbrexd]

rock, paper, scissors!! the stretched shadows turned the loser will close his eyes, and face the front. the soft voice shout out, "you can start searching now!!"

[kingofinsxcts-archived]

I hope there's fine weather tomorrow ...

[randompanimation]

[theangrypokemaniac]

Let me tell you, A Timeless Encounter! from the Sadism & Masochism era is a truly special episode.

One day, Ash is minding his own business when if Celebi doesn't enter out of the blue and fling our hero into the past.

Meanwhile, in said yester-year a pancaked-faced yoof lurks half-naked round the park, as you do.

What choo doing round these badlands, Celebi? This ain't your neck of the woods. By rights you ought to be pulling such a trick round...I dunno...Johto.

Oh-oh, that's the last we'll see of him!

Mark my words, next thing you know he'd be chucked in the back of a grubby white van, gaffer-taped to the eyeballs after falling for the old come-and-see-the-puppies routine.

Pffft. Never got me. I know what a pædophile looks like.

Well Ash and The Boy develop a firm friendship, and go on many arduous adventures together.

Like what?

Were it reality, the above picture would feature on his missing poster, but this is Alola, so whilst a perverts' penal colony they prefer to fornicate within their own family.

Celebi dies, man! You telling me that's not extreme?

I don't remember any death.

Oh no, I must've imagined that. Well, a Demon of Nature rises from the earth, woven of the winds and the wild woods where Man dare not tred, and tears the place apart like the tangible ghost of MetalGreymon.

Eh?

No, I'm getting confused. I do know however that a colossus arrives, a heaving mountain of a man sworn to serve arch-villain Giovanni. He's out for blood, and woe betide a fragile-framed mortal that stands in his way.

Would you believe it, but the oik Ash encountered was only the local Professor, i.e. slack, sweating beach tramp Coo Coo-ee.

Nope.

Whoa! I did not see that coming! It not as if he hasn't changed his style of 'attire' in decades!

You ought to put warnings on this show, in case folk with dodgy hearts tune in and keel over.

Alright! They sit in a tree, but it's like a scary, cyclops tree, so that makes up for it, eh?

Beautiful innit?

I'm not ashamed to say this moved me. It was as if I'd known the story for most of my life.

I take back all the bad things about Alola. It's totally original quality like this that proves how wrong I've been.

O, how could I have been so blind?

In fact, why should it's shining magnificence be related to a mere filler installment?

Well Cuckoo cherishes those memories, keeping them in his secret book.

Oh they did, didn't they? Silly me.

This streak of brilliance deserves more attention. They ought to make a film of it.

[wanderfan2000]

Pokémon Japanese teaser posters will never stop amazing me! Like this one of my favorite time traveling Pokémon, Celebi! 

[wardisahi]

The first time I heard this song, which was last year, I cried. And I feel like this could relate to us somehow, due to the coronavirus pandemic and the weather that is happening to us in most places, whether it be rainy, cloudy, etc.

The title of the song translates into "I hope there's fine weather tomorrow".

[mangareaderx]

i dear you can translate the manga movie of pokèmon? the pokèmon movie 1,2,3,4 and 5 in your site jb2448 is in japanese, please translate that special manga i hope you can answer me

About movie manga 1:

There is some interest within the group of eventually scanlating it, but with the currently available RAW not being debound and being magazine RAW at that, it’s going to be a pain in the a** to clean. There are still a bunch of series we will prioritize before it, but there is chance we might get to scanlating it at some point.

About movie manga 2-5:

We would consider scanlating them once everything else of value has been scanlated.

[runawaycarouselhorse]

[smilingperformer]

NS032 - Celebi: A Timeless Promise - Full Summary & VA cast

Three years ago on a family trip to Hiwada Town in the Jouto region, Go met a young boy named Tokio who was searching for the Mythical Pokémon Celebi. But why does Go look so gloomy when he remembers this? Summary: Three years ago, Go met a young boy named Tokio on a family trip to Hiwada Town in the Jouto region. Tokio was searching for the Mythical Pokémon Celebi, and the two kindred spirits decided to search for it together, but Celebi turned out to not be all that easy to find. The two of them parted ways, promising to meet up again the next day to continue their search, but Tokio never showed up at the spot they had promised to meet that day. Flash forward to present day, when Go once again visits Hiwada Town and ends up encountering... Voice Cast: Daiki Yamashita: Go Megumi Hayashibara: Rabbifoot Shinichiro Miki: Strike Yuji Ueda: Kamonegi Risa Shimizu: Muma Sayaka Senbongi: Messon Kei Shindo: Kireihana Noriaki Kanze: Ariados Michiko Neya: Kurune Takayuki Masuda: Ikuo Ayahi Takagaki: Tokio Marina Aicholtz: Go's Smartphone Rotom Kenyu Horiuchi: Narration

Source: PocketMonsters.Net forums, source link in the source tag

...Well that’s new. No Satoshi or Pikachu. First time ever? Edit. First time ever, not counting specials and Chronicles.

[fuckyeahpokemonmovies]

[krokonoko]

Doin one of my play by plays of the Pokemon movies.

It’s been a while since the last one! That’s cuz chronologically, we should do the 3rd one next, but the 3rd one is my fav and I’d rant for hours about how good it is and ain’t nobody got time for that, so we gonna skip straight to the fourth one.

I always remembered the fourth movie decidedly unfavorably. It’s categorized in my head as “the one that started the era of Pokemon movies that suck.”

And yeah it’s. Not as good as its predecessors. It was the movie that started the formula of “cute helpless legendary Pokemon needs to be saved from evul ppl.” It was the first one starring Ash’s new German voice actress, which was a big reason for me to stop watching the anime back in the day cuz WOW that new voice was the most grating thing in existence.

But looking back, I feel like I did the movie injustice. I think it’s got a lot of neat moments, and some that I honestly love, if only for their silliness. So let’s do this.

We start with music rehashed from the first movie. Not a good look, though that’s probably 4Kids fault.

GOD that cgi is ugly. And even worse, it was already back in the day!! There was never a time when this looked good.

wow thanks lady that looks gross af

those are some big ass nidoran

Oh no, the evil guy is weakening Celebi in order to catch it...! ...Wait that’s what we’re doin all day long in the games.

Honestly, it never made sense to my why the plot of the anime was so often revolving around keeping people from catching wild Pokemon? I mean I guess Team Rocket wants to use them for bad things, but Ash & Co. usually justified them keeping Team Rocket from catching wild Pokemon with accusations like “These Pokemon don’t belong to you!” ...bitch, yeah, they don’t belong to you either, they don’t belong to anyone, that’s why we’re catching them, that’s the entire purpose of the goddamn franchise?

And if the problem here is that this guy wants to catch a legendary Pokemon, then why am I required to catch legendaries to advance the plot in the games?

The cutest fucking Tyranitar.

What IS this guy’s outfit. Also will you believe me if I tell you it took me over 15 years to figure out this dude is a Team Rocket member?

“The Pokemon I catch with these balls become evil, and their powers are immediately maximized.”

Ah sure that sounds scientific and only slightly OP.

The title screen doesn’t exactly help the impression that this movie is severely half-assed, even if it’s made by 4Kids.

I also think it’s really funny that the English name of the movie is this run of the mill punny 4Kids bs. I mean. 4Kids. 4Ever. Wow. What ingenuity. And the German translation team took a look at that and went “NOPE, not doin it”, and called it “The timeless encounter”.

We’re about to see a Croconaw!!! :DDD

Will I ever be over the fact that Brock’s cute tiny Zubat evolved into a badass Crobat while I wasn’t looking? Nah.

Ah there it is, Ash’s new voice... You gotta understand, I had this huge crush on Ash when I was ~10yo, and his voice was a big part of that. So when it got replaced, I didn’t exactly take it well. Also the new one was doin its best to be even more grating than the English one. THEN AGAIN, the voice actress actually isn’t that bad in this movie and Mewtwo Returns.

HE.

No one knows how to actually pronounce Suicune until you hear someone else say it in a certain way and you go “NO that’s NOT how you say it!!”

I love how the old lady with the green hair is revealed to be the guardian of the entry to the forest since she was young. It’s just so funny how we just saw her jump about 30 foot off a tree as a teenager when Sammy was about to enter the forest, and go like “/game grumps zelda voice/ heeey kid, s’just a legend or whatever, but timetravel, it’s a thihiiing! Here, have some bread! byeee!” And then the kid vanished, and now she’s this grumpy old hag who waves her staff at everyone coming past her house like “DON’T EVEN FUCKING DARE GETTING CLOSE TO THAT FUCKING FOREST OR SO HELP ME GOD I WILL KICK YUR ASS!!”

babies babies bABIES

That Stantler is fucking legendary. Idk how it is in the English version, but in the German dub, it’s just got the most normal voice. Like, often the ppl voicing Pokemon will kind of talk in a hissing tone, or make their voice sound deeper or whatever, but this Stantler sounds like a completely normal dude just matter-of-factly stating: “Damhir. Plex.”

And instead of, idk, holding Celebi into the water at the edge, Sammy walks into the lake, clothes and backpack and everything, and squats there like a tool. I mean I get it, the imagery is much stronger like this, but couldn’t he at least taken off the shoes? The backpack? THAT’S GOT HIS NOTEBOOK IN IT???

I love them. Every single one of them is so valid.

Nothing to see here, just a pretty shot.

I really like these old anime glow effects~

The best part about Celebi healing Misty’s knee is how she doesn’t just slowly try to put weight on it or something, but straight up jumps around on it. Ride or die, man.

This is one of my fav moments in the entire movie, cuz you got Celebi cruisin around in the foreground, and the boys sitting there, looking at the viewer with this exact vacant stare for multiple seconds without making a noise or moving.

You know, I mean... the first two Pokemon movies were some pretty basic stuff. Esp. The second one was really just a McGuffin hunt. But this one is just such a poster child for the plot that would be recycled in Pokemon movies like no other. The entire narrative has completely halted. All we are doing is watching Ash, Sammy and Celebi bond. There are no stakes and no tension, except for the fact that the Pokemon hunter is still on the lose but he’s so forgettable, who honestly even still cares about him?

And the thing is, this bonding between Ash, Sammy and Celebi is important so they can save Celebi from turning evil later, but it still rings kinda hollow what with the montage they’re getting of all the fun times they had for the last, say two hours?

The much more important thing, which puts this movie a bit ahead of most other Pokemon movies with this structure, is that Ash isn’t just bonding with the legendary of the week, but also with Sammy.

And Sammy isn’t just a bff of the week, but an established core cast character. Imho, that’s what makes the movie worthwhile.

The dumb thing about this is that Celebi didn’t even get corrupted for any good reason. It was literally just “yeah it was in that weird pokeball for a sec now it’s evil.” ^^°

cgicune

I remember first watching this movie and this was the point where I honestly started hating it because I was so disgusted by how unimaginative everything about this... ball? is...

yeah no, this is just. really really bad.

OKAY here’s another thing. WHY did Suicune turn up now?

On the one hand I do realize I like this movie more than I thought I did. On the other hand I’m starting to see why it was such a problem for me back then. This movie is just trying to copy formulas from the prior ones without really. Working for it. Remember Lugia and Ash working together? Lugia saving Ash and all that? Wasn’t that cool?

Yeah but there was also a reason for WHY Lugia stepped in and WHY they helped Ash. It was Lugia’s task to step in in case the three birds started fighting. And Ash was the chosen one. It’s flimsy as fuck, but it worked.

What’s Suicune’s connection to all of this? They’re... sorta like... another guardian of the forest. Cool. Then why didn’t they step in the moment the hunter attacked Celebi? There’s no real reason for them to save Ash and Sammy, except for the fact that they’re protags and they need plot shield.

Everything about the writing in this movie makes it so obvious even to a young teenager that this is just ticking boxes.

The thing is, the first three movies had at least one character developing. It took a human’s sacrifice for Mewtwo to learn the value of life, both of the life of others and their own. In the second movie, Ash had to live up to the responsibility of being the chosen one. And the third movie is just amazing and Molly is a really interesting character, she overcomes a deep grief and learns that escapism is not the answer to her problems and it’s just all around the best Pokemon movie of all time it’s got so much emotional depth idek where to start.

But here... Who learned anything? Who developed? And I think that’s where later Pokemon movies fall short. There’s not a lot of character development, and even if there is any, it just rehashes of the old movies. And while I couldn’t have put it into words like that when I was a young teen, I think that’s part of what bothered me so much about this one. 

Also what’s with this bs talk about the lake being polluted or the forest dying? A couple of trees got uprooted and there’s a bit of dirt, honest to god nothing but soil and stuff, in the lake. Give it a couple of months and it’s gonna be fine. It’s not like there’s toxic waste in the water or anything.

I mean you could say the forest is dying cuz Celebi is dying, but by the logic of the movie, it was the other way around! And honestly, nothing in the background even looks like its wilting at ALL. So this really doesn’t leave much of an impression.

Fuck this, this is not earned.

At this point, the hunter guy is just bullying Celebi.

And this little overpowered dingdong can’t even free itself from some dude grabbing it. Okay sure so Ash needs to save it againnnn what are the emotional stakes hereee

ANYWAY. It was all worth it for the only actual plot twist in the history of Pokemon movies:

And I actually really, really like this one. It’s not just an awesome twist but also a super sweet moment between Ash and Prof. Oak that deepens their bond.

So yeah, I think I already said everything I had to say about this one. Kind of the beginning of the end for Pokemon movies. Not saying there aren’t some winners in between, but man did they get formulaic. And the recent attempts to break up said formula are. Questionable at best. It seems like Pokemon can’t really escape itself, though I’m sure if they wanted they could create meaningful stories like the first or third movies or just solid, fun action movies like the second one again.

[randompanimation]

[wanderfan2000]

Isn’t it weird that I have a strange gift that I can actually translate the Japanese titles of the Pokémon films into English? 

If you don’t believe me, click on the pictures and prepare to have your mind BLOWN!