Pokemon. Everyone's grown up on it, it made lots of money and has been many people's childhoods, there's even a long running anime about it, but that's not i'm gonna review.
Pokemon Generations is ambitious, short and entertaining. As a fan of the games the show is basically fanservice, it's a nostalgia blast.
Art: 8/10
The art is great, that is to be expected being animated by 5 different studios, it's definitely improved from the anime (Which is sometimes lackluster), the artstyle isn't brand new but is wonderful nonetheless, seeing all of my favorite scenes from the games animated as well as the fight sequences being as fluid and fast as it can be examples being the Kyogre and Groudon scenes, Deoxys vs Rayquaza and the twoi Dragons of Unova, even if some frames look awkward af but overall great in general.
Story: 8/10
The story of Pokemon is vast and wide in the games, this ONA basically adapts a short portion of each generation's story in 3 different episodes that do not connect to each other at all, the pacing might be awkward.
Episode 4 i'm looking at you
The pacing does improve, especially with Gen 5's episodes, which is the best part of this series besides the last episode which is beautiful. Though, the story buckles under it's own screentime, which is 4 minutes long each, nonetheless it still manages to delivers it's story albeit sometimes abruptly.
OST: 8/10
The ost comprises of the soundtracks from the games, which is understandable but it does have a few original tunes (at least it doesn't reuse the same explosions effects which is a blessing.). It's definitely great and memorable personally, it really did incur a bit of nostalgia in me which is probably the reason i enjoyed this ONA so much.
Characters: 9/10
There is no specific protagonist in this show (Looker is probably the protagonist...probably.) but the characters are definitely adapted beautifully, N, Looker, and even Ghetsis. The characters are probably the best part of this series for me, seeing them all talk, instead of just reading them from a text box, Patrick Seitz, one of the best Dub VAs in my opinion did a amazing job as Ghetsis in this short anime, and of course, in what's probably the thing that propelled my rating from a 75 to 85 is AZ. The endgame of Pokemon X and Y had a character named AZ and the anime adapted him wonderfully, from the backstory and to the reunion, the whole character is just chef's kiss as well as Silver, especially Silver in how they made him a complex character, the characters are definitely the highlight of the show.
I don't know what else to say but overall, this show is a short, entertaining that was clearly made for the fans.
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