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Reviewed on 2006-07-12

It just keeps going and going....
...And I'm following faithfully! Ash's eternal quest to become a Pokemon Master has taken us to the Hoenn region, in my opinion, the best adventure so far. After saying goodbye to longtime companions Misty and Brock (the latter which comes back once again), Ash meets up with the female trainer from Ruby an Sapphire, May. Seeing her on TV made me as giddy as a school girl(Okay, so I AM a school girl), and I was hooked. Tagging along with them is May's brother Max, the duo I've become quite fond of. The Team Rocket trio returns, mainly to catch Pikachu (No surprise), but they also have Teams Magma and Aqua to deal with, who have larger plans than stealing Pokemon. With new adventures, new friends, and new Pokemon, I recommend the Hoenn series to all faithful to the anime. For all people who don't really know Pokemon, give it a shot! You may surprise yourself.

Reviewed on 2005-09-17

Great new seasons
pokemon the hit televison show has done it again new jokes new pokemon new characters such as may and max and a new catchy theme song episodes are

Get the show on the road- poor pikachu is ill and ash is all alone in little root town with nothing to do but wait for pro. Birch to come help pikachu. when at the lab the machine to help pikachu breaks and a confused pikachu runs off
after pikachu is healed May introduces herself and picks her first pokemon a torchic pikachu ash and may continue their journey together

a ruin with a view- trying to reach petalburg city May finds an adorable azurill and has torchic battle it but things get out of hand and torchic ends up getting three powerful water gun attacks aimed at it while keeping torchic at the pokemon center a new league of villains shows up what now?

theres no place like hoenn- Ash May and pikachu reach petalburg city Ash is eager to win his first badge May informs him about the gym leader saying she dosn't know him when Ash gets to the gym he meets Max May's younger brother and Max gives ash a pretty hard time about losing in the silver confrince and also finds out that Mays father is the gym leader

BONUS EPISODES ONLY ON THE DVD

you can never taillow- in this episode a naughty taillow steals the cookies Ash May and Max were going to eat after being attacked by a flock of taillow its brock to the rescue he joins the gang on their journey and ash captures the leader taillow

In the knicker of time- in this episode a strange kid named Nikolai and him mudkip are trying to capture a zigzagoon but can they?

Reviewed on 2005-07-26

The start of a new Advanture for Ash and friends!
Bettter than Jhoto...more colorful than ever...new charecters..and...-WAY-better vocies than in Kanto!Yes,now,Pokemon Advanced is on DVD.If you say this show sucks,something's wrong with you!It's so original!(or I call it,"Originaly Itself")I haven't bought the dvd,but I saw all the episodes.You should Defintily buy this!!!First thing's first,pokemon fans,it's a whole new start!And afer this,you should buy ALL OF THEM!

Reviewed on 2004-10-18

Holy mediocrity!
Ugh...another Pokemon season.

Precious little has changed since the godawful Johto seasons. Ash, Pikachu, Brock and Team Rocket are still in the show (Good god why?). Misty is replaced by that girl you can play as in Ruby and Sapphire. Her little brother also tags on.

PROS:
-The animation keeps getting better
-New and cuter Pokemon
-Includes stuff that's from Ruby/Sapphire: Mr. Briney, Peeko, Team Magma/Team Aqua

CONS:
-May and Max (Bring Misty back!)
-Team Rocket (Can't they just win already and get off the show?!)
-Far too repetive
-Episodes are getting bland, dull and boring

I've just about had it with this mediorce anime. It still sucks.
If you don't care about how bad this new season is, then you're excused from reading this.

Reviewed on 2004-07-23

Starting all over again...
Ash sets off on a new journey with new friends and old pals as he continues to become a Pokemon master!
Yeah, yeah, you could say that he's been trying to do that for six years now, but with the Advanced series, the show is attempting to apologize to us for the exhaustingly long and filler filled Johto series. The show also seems to be finally appealing to older fans of the show as well.

Content: For less than the price of a new movie DVD you get the first five episodes from the new series. Someone else has gone into detail in reviewing these episodes, so I won't go into detail here. But the episodes presented are well written, with only a few spots here and there that just seem off par. Even the sole "filler" episode on the disc, "In the Knicker of Time!" doesn't feel like filler at all. Unfortunately, all these episodes on the discs are the KidsWB versions, meaning there are a few edits that just seem unnecessary. The UK english versions aren't nearly as edited. Still, it's not severe enough to really ruin the disc.

Visuals: Visually, Pokemon Advanced is, well, very advanced compared to earlier seasons. Animation is sharp, clean and fluid. You'd be hard pressed to find another current Saturday morning cartoon with such good animation. There is some graininess to some colors, but it isn't noticeable unless you really look for it.

Sound: Sadly, sound doesn't fare as well. Veronica Taylor is still getting a grip on May in these early episodes, and she just comes across sounding like a female Ash. Also, a lot of the original Japanese music was replaced. So instead of new music introduced into the series, we got the same themes we heard from the first Pokemon movie. Sad. No Japanese language track either, but we're used to that, right?

Extras/Packaging: There are really no extras worthwhile to mention, unless you count sub-titles as an extra feature (which you shouldn't). There is an option to view the opening and end credits separately from the episodes, but since they are tacked onto each episode anyway, it's kind of useless.
The packaging itself is rather dull and brings the message "We're not trying anymore". It looks more like someone's Photoshop project than anything else, just a generic blue background with clip art of Pikachu and Torchic plastered on it. Why not feature the trainers on the cover too? Seasons 1 through 3 had some great box art, so what's the deal?

Overall: Overall, if you're not that into extras, this is a great disc for your collection, and a worthy replacement for that VHS you taped the KidsWB airings onto.

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