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posting this scene in its entirety. to my knowledge pokeani has not topped this scene and idk if they ever will. it is a pure, unadulterated, bonafide masterpiece start to finish

from the start being paul calling infernape a disappointment again. to electivire rejecting the referee’s call because he knows infernape has more fight left and is determined to see this through to the end. the thing that enables infernape to defeat his old trainer being the exact ability that trainer berated and tormented him over, perfected under ash’s love and care. TYPE: WILD. the animation. the perfect story beats from setup, rising action, climax, and falling action. the silence before electivire falls. The Fact That It Was Infernape, The Abused Pokemon, Against Electivire, The Favorite, To Score Ash’s Very First Win Against Paul.

poetic. fucking. cinema.

Okay so STUFF WE KNOW FROM THIS TRAILER ME BO

At least all the stuff I could notice as someone who doesnt speak japanese lol

* FFFFUCKIN ALL THE EVIL TEAMS * just SHOVEL THEM INTO MY MOUTH. OOPS! ALL EVIL TEAMS. NEW CEREAL

* It seems that Team Rocket are the ones responsible for this big interdimensional mess happening, and they have a new rainbow pattern logo and like.. either giovanni came back or that’s a parallel giovanni too?? * I’m calling this now: maybe its an extension of their HGSS plot and they tried to break thru dimensions to bring back the giovanni of the past. i just dont think that current giovanni would have come back and forgotten all his character development, honestly. Also this would be an excuse for the cool HGSS quartet to come back in 3D!! Petrelllll!! Arianaaaaa!!! THOSE OTHER GUYS! * I really hope they have not actually renamed the team Rainbow Rocket like the rumours said. Cos that just sounds really dumb. like its already a situation of like ten things we thought would never happen anywhere except fanfics, the slightly-too-silly name is the cherry on the top that makes the whole cake fall. Learn moderation in your nonsense! * New and cool redesigns for the grunts again, because team rocket likes to dye their hair in every new region? XD * Its specifically RSE-verse Archie and Maxie, in glorious 3D! What an awesome fanservice!! But this also raises the possibility of the other team leaders being quite different parallel versions? Honestly they could be super different even just depending on which part of their own plot they were taken from at the point of this convergence. * And I feel like they’d HAVE to be kinda different to even have all these bosses agreeing to team up, instead of fighting amoungst each other. like seriously we have some misguided well-intentioned guys and some jerkass cartoonishly evil ones, we have a bunch of not-mutually-possible evil plans, and we have an abused kid who grew up into a villain and an abusive dad who’s a villain because of it. * Seriously give me my cyrus vs ghetsis smackdown, dammit! Cyrus could even adopt N cos they have so much in common! * MAKE IT HAPPEN, NINTEND * Cool and interesting thing tht ISNT just my fanon: we see Guzma comically grappling with some rocket grunts. Does this mean that we team up WITH team skull against every other team??? Does Guzma get a more complex redemption plot??? * Guzma: Y’ALL ARE STUPID!! *just being dragged along as a bunch of people he knows nothing about are teaming up, apparantly* * okay I need to talk about something OTHER than sweet sweet crossover land

* you can also catch all the legendaries, ehh? I.. don’t really care. Its just literally the oras wormholes again but with more of a fleshed out cutscene actually showing each legendary attacking. That’s.. vaguely cool..? I mean i already HAVE all these guys like four times over. * thing that actually IS interesting: maybe the implication that we could fight some of them in doubles battles, and maybe these wild pokemon could even mega/primal evolve during the battle? or it could have just been weird editing choices and im reading too much into it. * tho I do like the really epic montage for it. and i laughed at how sped up the montage had to get at the huge pile of sinnoh and unova legends XD

* okay i am REALLY annoyed that the promo art for the oops all bosses event only shows the male protagonist. Why does this bug me so much?? gahhh * it also seems to show guzma, wicke and... sophocles?? of all the people to join you on this adventure, that’s an unexpected team! itd be cool to see wicke getting more screentime, and whatever strange potential interections could happen with this trio! * also faba seems to be on the side of the combo bosses? ehhh.. im also not too hyped about this. I’m grumpy that both this and the sun and moon anime decided to retcon his sumo1 ending of giving up on evil and working to better himself and such. it was really poorly written compared to guzma’s postgame but like I was still glad that for once my fave evil admin wasnt The Only One Who Went To Jail As Everyone Else Got Redeemed. But nah now he’s not just comic relief evil he’s super duper evil and blahblahblah... * yknow what would fix this if you hypothetically cameo’d charon, justsayin-

* ANYWAY WHERE WAS I

* the new combo team rocket apparantly broadcasts something on a tv, and their base is super revamped with EVEN MORE FRUSTRATING TELEPORTER PUZZLES * meowth statues :3 * is this the alternate universe where anime meowth succeeded in becoming top dog and persian was the one left working with the grunts? WILL WE GET MEOWTH BOSS FANTASIES?? i mean they cameo’d ash greninja so its possible! * apparantly rse maxie and archie will indeed get to battle you as a tag team and have several interaction scenes together, yaaaaaaaay * Giovanni has mewtwo, so do all the others have their respective version legends??? * FESTIVAL PLAZA GOT TAKEN OVER BY ULTRA BEASTS?? WHAT THE FUCKK???? * possibly hala and hau using tapu koko together in a battle or something?? * i dont even know what to expect there were so many lil details in a split second aaaa im so excited!!!!!!!!!