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What happens in the anime when a remake is released?

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if there were to be a gen 3 remake would ash catch a torchic or any other gen 3 pokemon?
 
The same things that happened when FR/LG and HGSS were released. A few throwbacks to older pokemon but that's about it.
 
If May returns for a hypothetical Hoenn remake, there is a possibility she can come back for a bit, unless they have a brand new playable character, or bring along brandon.
 
I doubt they'll have any old character return. Best Wishes is avoiding past characters as much as possible.

Most likely they'll have Iris or Cilan get a Hoenn starter, as seen with Dawn getting Cyndaquil and May getting Bulba/Squirtle.
 
I'm not sure about now, since I don't think they're willing to showcase older pokemon right now. For this, they may make an exception, but it would be difficult considering the kind of situation Unova is in. In the past, though, all the remakes ever warranted was appearances from older pokemon, for the most part. For HG/SS, they had the added measure of including Lyra. For FR/LG, they technically had an entire major story arc that doubled as advertisement for Emerald in the form of the Battle Frontier. If they do it again, I'm sure they'll do something different this time as well. I can't help but think it would be relegated to just pokemon appearances if anything because they already featured everything that was in the third gen in the anime, except for Brandon, but I doubt they'll go through that kind of trouble.
 
Well, in Gen III when FireRed and LeafGreen were released, Ash did the Battle Frontier in Kanto, in Gen IV when HeartGold and Soulsilver were released, they just had Lyra and two(?) Johto starters and Dawn got a Cyndaquil egg. So I doubt Ash goes back to Hoenn, but I could see something involving Pokemon native to Hoenn.. maybe starters or something along the lines of what they did in Gen IV and have Iris or Cilan get a Hoenn starter.
 
Aspects of the game such as older Pokemon or new features are shamelessly flaunted.
 
Speaking of R/S remakes to happen, its only matter of time when this will happen with Nintendo and GameFreak following same pattern like they did with remakes of first and second generation.This proved to be good marketing move bringing them lot of money so its pretty much a given how they wont miss on opportunity to do same for 3rd gen as well eventually.
In that case i could either see anime repearting same scenary like it did with FR,LG cerating some kind of filler arc promoting 3rd generation of pokemon and including references to Hoenn and its characters.
Than again Battle Frontier hardly felt like Kanto beeing such only on paper.

Or writers could promote R/S remales like they did with HGSS,including characters which represent it for few epispodes and bringing older pokemon back.

I think May might have a shot of appearing for this too.There really wouldnt exist purpose in introducing someone else to cover up potential remakes when May is already more than suitable enough for this job being iconic to that generation.I might be wrong though but perhaps she might receive some recognition since she introduced whole concept of contest to anime and imo it would make more sense if sh was used for promotion of RS remakes already being popular and prominent character.

Gliscor'd said:
I doubt they'll have any old character return. Best Wishes is avoiding past characters as much as possible.
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Always negative,oh well.
Perhaps Best Wishes is straying away from past characters,pokemon etc but after Unova ends all bets are in reality open.Only reason BW is so low on continuity in first place is because of BW games which went through revamp getting rid of older pokemon and contests,while portraying Unova as far and isolated region compared to rest of regiions Ash traveled through.
Same rules cant be expected to be followed in future reguions.

Seeing how Unova will last for 3 years anyway(league will finish by than),potential R/S remakes could take place in filler arc or whatever gets created.
Seeing how filler arcs like Orange Islands or Battle Frontier was,sarent so much focused on game promotion like main series are with writers including a lot more reference to past regions,pokemon and characters having bigger liberty there increases chances for older characters coming back.

So i wouldnt completely discard May being used for it.
 
Gliscor'd said:
The same things that happened when FR/LG and HGSS were released. A few throwbacks to older pokemon but that's about it.
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They aren't avoiding anything, they just have no reason to show them if there is a reason or an oportunity they will eventually show them.
 
I will stop being weebeo for a single post.

FR/LG:

-May got a Bulbasaur and Squirtle.
-Kanto Battle Frontier.

I would probably include Misty's reappearence but that was probably because she was the only second main character put on a bus by that point. I could argue Kanto and Johto Pokémon's appeareances seems to have increased after FR/LG but were already pretty high in cameos and whatnot. AG was weird.

HG/SS:

Before HG/SS was released:
-May went to Johto along with her rivals and briefly returned.
-Marina got quite a few cameos.
-Johto Pokémon fillers before (and arguably after, if you count Dark Stone episode) HG/SS mini arc.

After HG/SS:

-HG/SS mini arc:
-Dawn got a Cyndaquil who got a lot spotlight in those episodes and only about as much as time a late capture can have later.
-Lyra and Khoury and their starters.
-Johto music was reused in DP146. I do not know if it was used in other episodes of mini-arc or in the episodes before this.
-Flashback to Whitney and Morty.

After HG/SS mini arc:
-Does Ash using Quilava, Donphan, Noctowl and Heracross in the Sinnoh League count at all?

I could argue writing and animation in HG/SS mini arc felt like the good Johto episodes but a. I didn't watch all of the Johto saga. b. I didn't watch all of the HG/SS mini arc; as such I am certainly the right person to talk about that.

Possible hints for Gen III remakes?
Before release:
-Plusle and Minun managed to show their battling skills, whereas in AG they mostly appeared in fillers, Movie 7, in some promotional material and with Solana(Plusle of course, not Minun).
-Lava Cookie in DP190
-Dawn decided to go Hoenn.

What might happen?
-Random Gen III Pokémon appearing in Unova either pre or post League.
-Cilan and/or Iris getting Gen III Pokémon, likely a starter who ends up being a baby to be more marketable and have a justifiable reason to stay unevolved.
 
Just a reminder guys: this is a thread to discuss how remakes are promoted in the TV series. If you want to discuss whether or not you think Ruby and Sapphire are even going to get remakes in the first place, please take that over to the Video Games section.
 
All I care about is Ash using Glalie again. I was extremely annoyed that Glalie didn't get a battle in the Sinnoh league, especially when we saw it training with Infernape and Torterra.
 
I think that if (hopefully) the R|S remakes are made there will be some sort of side quest (filler arc) to promote it. It seems that whenever they finish a series based on a gen with an odd number there is a side quest after it( gen1 -> Orange Islands, gen3 -> Kanto Battle Frontier), but in gen 3 that side quest was used for a promotion of remakes. So my guess is that since it was said that Unova is supposed to last 3yrs, after the Unova League there will be some type of side quest for Ash that will promote the remakes. Or Iris|Cilan can get a gen 3 pokemon (Starter for Cilan & a Bagon or Starter for Iris). I would really like to see Iris with a Bagon since she is training to be a dragon master and the only actual dragon type she has is Axew -_-. I really hope they do both though because I would really like to see Cilan|Iris with gen 3 pokemon and I really wanna see what they would do with the side quest if they decided to do it.
 
Personally, I'm inclined to hope that they might do a bit more for an RS remake than they did for previous remakes, if only because RS remakes are probably unlikely at this stage to be DS games. If they're 3DS games, and what's more if they're the first main series 3DS titles, then presumably they're going to want to show off and promote those through the anime.

If nothing else, we'll probably get a comment somewhere about Satoshi giving up the opportunity to become a Frontier Brain, and maybe a contest of sorts.
 
I can't possibly see Ash returning to Hoenn. The region was covered extensively the first time around, all the Gym leaders and Brains were featured, and I seriously doubt Contests would return to the anime now that they got rid of them.

Most likely they'll do what they did when HGSS came out. Dedicate a small arc to it and show some old Pokemon again, and that's it.
 
RS references and Hoenn Pokemon would be promoted during a filler saga after BW and the Gen VI saga.
 
I agree that we'd see a (not necessary many, but at least one) Contest again. While of course they were featured extensively before, we've had both the Pokéthlon and Musicals show up (the latter of which is barely a feature at all in BW). I don't see why they wouldn't feature one of RS's main features.
 
You know it's funny Wallace made his debut in DP, if they never used him in DP now would have been the time.

I can't think of what else they'd do honestly. I doubt May will appear other than a reference an I can't see Brendan showing up this late. Most likely just have Hoenn Pokemon in the wild.
 
I just realized that the one thing they have not shown was the other 3 of the E4. Although they haven't shown E4 members outside of their region too often before. (Lorelei and Lance are the only examples I can think of)
 
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