Pokémon join Pluto TV

By an agreement with the Canadian lead kids and families company WildBrain, the whole long TV Pokémon franchise (Save the lasts seasons) have found a niche on the Pluto TV free platform, by settle a specific channel on its own. You can read the whole story here: WILDBRAIN & POKÉMON TO LAUNCH FAST CHANNEL ON PLUTO TV ON OCT 22

It's easily the most unexpected announcement of the year. One quarter-century after the Poké-Mania that have cross all the North America, and by have others series that trying to copy the concept but failed, (Especially Digimon) the TV Anime based of the Nintendo videogame series of the same name deserve now its status of classic cartoon, in the same way like past shows of our generation like The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Simpsons or King of the Hill. It's longevity is not without any problems, but the bond between Ash Ketchum and his companion friend Pikachu have largely inspired over a generation of children to provide sincere friendship, sacrifice and working hard for be the best Pokémon Trainer at possible. Even the supporting cast of the first series been more famous than what we gotten from the TV Anime as late. If you are a fan of the Saturday morning-stand-by Team Rocket or simply one who love the Ash-Misty "supposed" romantic affair, you are in a treat with Pluto TV, at a perfect alternative to the typical Netflix-esque formula of streaming platforms. (As I know, Bell Media's Crave only shown the 4kids Season 2's of this. Not a bad thing, I say, but the earlier episodes by be sadly unavailable worked to me more.)

Even when fans pull their hate for Pokemon Horizons, the Ash Ketchum character in the past late seasons have largely deteriorated by seen its design be streamlined on a very pointless way. It start to become a Hergé character rip-off, so much, that you never known if he's an actual pre-teenager of a little kid. All these made the whole thing hard to watch because by 1998, it was considered like a murky low-budget TV thing. Twenty-six years later, they have a better budget and technology to handle this, but the heart of what make the series as special first have all disappear, when the Pokemon company having lurked the Ash character to such of a boring lead than we supposed to known him for.

Unlike says, rampant wrecks nobody cares like Bakugan, it's very difficult to known at least one person who have never heard the Pikachu name, and even if they trying hardly, they'll lying. Pikachu is easily one of the most emblematic animal characters in history, tied with the likes of Mickey Mouse, Snoopy or Scooby-Doo.

Such a better present for nostalgic fans than a new season of a old 00s TV cartoon we never ask or a cynical affair that only please the Unicorns world... like Miraculous: Ladybug and CatNoir!