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Masaaki Iwane: Pokémon anime originally slated for 18-month run

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Pokémon animation director Masaaki Iwane (岩根雅明) has stated on a discussion board on his site that the original run for the Pokémon animated television series was 1½ years, partly in response to a poster's musings on the seemingly unaging lead character.

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Man Bulbabot, sometimes you try to hard. Still interesting, and they probably never predicted this long of a run.

How come Bulbabot never responds to me when I PM him? I think he hates me.....
 
I guess the anime was originally planned to end after Orange, then. That would explain why it was more story-oriented for the first two regions.
 
Jo-Jo said:
I guess the anime was originally planned to end after Orange, then. That would explain why it was more story-oriented for the first two regions.
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1½ × 52 = 78 episodes, which is approximately the length of the Indigo League part of the series by itself.
 
Eh, what story?

The anime never had much of a story either, personally I'm sort of glad the days of Ash basically doing favors for his badges are gone.
 
Just because we had them first, they weren't that much different from episodes now...
 
That's true.

In fact, my opinion is like the exact opposite of Kasumi's. XD


I like all the later seasons and newer episodes better than the first season (I think that's partially due to the fact I've seen every season one episode 1,000s of times or more in reruns, lol).
 
PokemonTrainerLisa said:
That's true.

In fact, my opinion is like the exact opposite of Kasumi's. XD


I like all the later seasons and newer episodes better than the first season (I think that's partially due to the fact I've seen every season one episode 1,000s of times or more in reruns, lol).
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There is no way you are a sane human >:O
 
Huh, so it was gonna end after Orange like the manga did? Interestin'...
PokemonTrainerLisa scares me now. :p
 
PokemonTrainerLisa has scared me for quite some time ^-^
 
King of the Internet said:
Just because we had them first, they weren't that much different from episodes now...
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Isn't the fact that they aren't that different *EXACTLY* what Kasumi criticize when she says the early epis. were original?
 
And we all know why you say that, too :p
 
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