Canceled endings of Pokémon anime could be much darker

The first series “Pokemon”After it was named and edited, first appeared in North America on September 8, 1998. The series followed the 10-year-old boy named Ash Ketchum (Veronica Taylor), who wants to become a Pokémon master. It lives in a universe that contains not only ordinary animals, such as dogs and cats, but also MenoGeria Pokemon-acidic Monsters-which possess human intelligence and terrible superpowers. Thanks to the high -tech miracle of this world, Pokemon can be converted to energy and stored in a baseball stagnation container called Pokéballs. Pokémon owners can release them from their Pokéballs and make them fight in matches to combat high losses.

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When the child turns 10 in the world “Pokémon”, they are allowed to adopt one pokemon and go out on the roads than not only a backpack and bed. They spend their lives, wandering through the countryside, essentially homeless, challenging other Pokémon owners to fights. Although Pokémon owners make their animals fight, relationships between them and their pets are represented as a warm and good, glorious collaboration between two creatures that in their essence understand each other. Ash and his star Pokémon, a three -meter electric mouse called Pikachu (ikue otani), are regarded as inseparable friends.

The main writer of the Japanese version of “Pokémon” for the first four seasons was Taesha Shuda, a long -standing veteran anime. In a blog report of 2009 (conveniently Translated Lavacutcontent), Shuda reflected on his time, working on Pokémon and his ideas for stories. Pokémon’s head was never going to work while he had, and he was actually fun (if gloomy) the idea of ​​how the show may end. It seems one of his ideas was to see how Ash dies from old age. Another saw that the war broke out between people and Pokémon.

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It should be reminded that the original “Pokémon” series was held in Japan from 1997 to 2023 in its original iteration. This is an impressive 26 seasons. In addition, at this time 25 feature films were releasedNot to mention a few theatrical shorts and direct affairs. Pokémon franchise is wildly fertile. Shudo not only wrote for the 1997 seasons for 2000, but also wrote “Pokémon: The first movie” (called “Mewtwo Strikes” in Japan). After the movie came out, Shudo seemingly suggested that the television franchise reached the maximum, and soon after that he was going to get close. So he began to wipe out ideas about how the series should end.

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His ideas were quite wild, especially for fans who are used to the idea of ​​”Pokémon”, which continue to a large extent endless. In one of Shudo visions, he imagined the outbreak for the end of his life, catching it up at the time of conscious memory. He described his idea similar to proustt, thus:

“Months and years pass. Asha is old, then suddenly he looks at his past. He remembers his childhood. Adventures in his youth.”

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Then Ash had to hear the mother’s voice, telling him to go to bed, because his journey to Pokémon should begin in the morning. Ash woke up as a 10-year-old guy and would live again. Only this time “he goes on a journey so as not to catch Pokémon and not become a Pokémon master, but to discover the meaning of existence to learn how to coexist with others.”

This is a sweet and philosophical way to finish the Pokémon series. The Pokémon world seems to be peaceful and utopian. In most cities, high -tech cities have public services for Pokémon coaches, and they work from renewable energy. Finally, in such circumstances, a possible journey of self -discovery is finally possible. “Pokemon” is like a “star path?”

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Another idea for the end of “Pokémon” would finally turn with the angle of the franchise “The enslaved animals forced to walk.” Under “Pokémon” there is injustice, and Shuda wanted gloomy ending This would resemble the “conquest of the monkeys.” As he described:

“Pokémon would put up an uprising, like Spartacus in ancient Rome. Although at first glance Pokémon seems friends with people, they would realize that they are actually used as slaves, which would lead to an uprising. ashes of the rocket team. Walking things. “

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Rocket team – represented by Jesse, James and Hadt – long ago served as comedy villains of the series. Shudo said, however, that if he wrote a story about Pokémon’s uprising, it should be the end of the series. This would open the banks from the orthodists that could not be shoved. But, he said, when the mandate was recognized that the series could continue endlessly, he postponed history and left the franchise.

“Pokémon Horizons: Laqua’s search” debuted in 2024.