The Best Anime of 2020...Was a Pokémon Music Video?!?

Deja Vu! I feel like I've been in this place before - Rie Matsumoto snatching victory in even years by releasing Bump of Chicken + Brand Collaborations. Anyway GOTCHA! was awesome - literally brought a tear to my eye - and I wanted to break down its direction...so I did just that.

#Gotcha! #Pokémon #Direction

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Music:
Azalea Town - HG/SS OST
Route 113 - R/S/E OST
Route 11 - HG/SS OST
Route 42 - HG/SS OST
Anville Town - B/W OST
Jubilife City - X/Y OST

Featured Anime:
Kekkai Sensen
Kyousougiga
Lotte Chocolate Ad
Pokémon the Movie 2000
Gotcha!
Sirius: The Jaeger

Thumbnail Art & Logo: Drawplex

[evoyjonathan]

Are we not going to talk about how Morpeko pushed up Marnie's cheeks to make her smile and how fucking adorable that was?

[doesntexistanymore]

imagine if this was just the intro to a series called pokemon gotcha

[RottenBen]

I'm not too familiar on all Pokemon lore, but the shot after the Groudon shadow has a stained window that appears to have a picture of a tower in it. That might be a more explicit reference to Rayquaza than just as the third beat to Kyogre and Groudon.

[Munenorino]

Fun fact for others who don't know, in the music video at 2:31 where mew was like caught, if you convert it into seconds you'll get 151 which is mew's pokedex entry number

[leggomyeggo]

You ever notice that all of the best Pokemon anime are everything but the official Pokemon anime.
For example:
Origins did a great job animating gen 1
Generations gave amazing fights and retells iconic scenes from the games but making them more mature
Twilight wings was just the most wholesome thing ever
Gotcha is the holy grail of pokemon

[GoodwinGhost]

during the gym leader crawl, the moment Solrock shows up the song says "Taiyo" which means "sun"
and once Solrock leaves and is replaced with ghost and dark the song says "no kawari" which means "without" refering to the sun
oh and the same with the fairy pokemons. they all sing when the song says "utau" which means to "sing"
with my limited japanese im sure there are other links to the gym leader crawl and the lyrics too

[DaceXA]

Normally I come for the stoic reading of the interpretation/analysis but hearing him so giddy about some of the details put a smile on my face.

[Dango]

The fact that Kakushigoto was even mentioned is enough for me

[sullivann.]

"Amphiros getting the respect it FUCKING deserves". I love the way you say this like it has to be said.

[wittich_tara]

honestly that one scene with n and the trainer from gen 5 made me tear up, I started playing Pokemon with that Gen and played my entire childhood these games and I even Had a zekrom which is a movie star, and a lot of other achievements like the oras turnament thing, now its in Pokemon sword and shield! That zekrom is my most valuable Pokemon. I restarted pokemon blach and black2 a lot of times and had a lot of reshirams and zekroms but that zekrom was the one that battled all the battles, fought all the gyms even without listening to me and saw me catch a lot of legendarys! And and was the Team leader of a lot of teams in a lot of generations! It is now lvl 100 and sits in my shiny Box becouse it is shinier than a shiny.

But that scene with N and the trainer made me remember my freetime when i was younger, all the times my parents got mad at me becouse I played pokemon when i was supposed to sleep. It made me remember my most valuable Pokemon and my friends I had fun with talking about pokemon on the schol breaks.

It made me tear up and I loved that scene. I wish I could go back to these times and expirience them again!

[TheCrow]

The shot of Blue and his team is my new wallpaper because that was literally the Blue from my original run on Pokemon Blue back in the 90's when I picked Squirtle as my first starter.

[rockinrom]

i've rewatched it so many times and i still didn't realize that fairy types used singed and that is why the dragon gym leaders were sleeping. So much information, i love her work so much

[xeruexe]

For me I love that in the roll of League Champions they didn't show the faces of the Unovan champions, there was just a clap of Alder and Iris's hands like they were tagging, and they didn't even show their Pokémon. It was like admitting that in these games the Pokémon league wasn't the main point of the story, and which would also give the shown encounter between N and the Protagonist more weight.

[tentacleenema]

We need more animations of the following protags: Brendan, Lucas, Hilbert, Hilda, Calem, Elio, Selene, Victor, and goddamn Scottish Queen Gloria!

[blumonty]

When me and my friend first saw the music video we actually thought it was a trailer for a new anime...

You can imagine our disappointment when we realized we were wrong

[giroppa]

The transition that shows the generational renewal of red being astonished at how good gold is always gets me.

[braydenleaderofthetirkins]

Also, what immediately caught me the first time were the red flower petals that pop up when Brendan transitions to May after catching attention of Wally near the end. In ORAS, Wally finally becomes strong and battles you at the end of Victory Road, and there are a ton of red, thin-petaled flowers amongst the two. This is an amazing reference to how Wally finally stands up to you with confidence.

[deltaburger]

You know, I just noticed something! Between Cynthia and Diantha's transition, you can see two hands high-five. The sleeves on their respective arms? None other than Alder and Iris. I love that little nod to their relationship as Champions, especially from an older Champion to a younger one. Also, I really loved the transition between Hilda walking with Bianca and Cheren to them walking behind Nate, it was just very cool and highlights how much of the first protagonist from Unova they see in the second. And then later, after N appears and during the eye-focus shot, the view of Hilbert transitions to one of Rosa, highlighting the link between the two through N himself. All the nods to the games in this animation are amazing, really, but those especially stuck out to me. Maybe it's because Unova was my first generation, and having been born in New York it really felt like a huge piece of myself, but... yeah, this music video pretty much brought me to tears.

[Rich_Cranium]

Good stuff, always glad to see a new video.

Haven’t properly watched or played Pokémon since Gen 5 but the nostalgia will always keep me around.

[shubhamburman]

7:26 another pun

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