Preview HZ001: The Pendant of Beginning, Part 1 ・HZ002: The Pendant of Beginning, Part 2

[BigDocFan]

Summary courtesy of Dephender at Serebii

Liko is a Paldean girl enrolled at Sekiei Academy, a boarding school in the Kanto region. She's delighted to receive her first Pokémon Nyahoja, but Nyahoja doesn't listen to her at all, and she struggles to bond with it... Meanwhile, a suspicious group of people show up in search of her, wanting the mysterious pendant she has.

 

[SamurottMan]

Sekiei Academy, a boarding school in the Kanto region.

Sigh...

 

[Eitarou]

Sigh...

A setting that likely won't matter past this first episode, so what does it matter in the grand scheme of things?

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

Sekiei Academy

Quartz Academy.

 

[KrspaceT]

Quartz Academy.

So the school master is Rose and or Steven then

 

[SamurottMan]

A setting that likely won't matter past this first episode, so what does it matter in the grand scheme of things?

I doubt that it won't matter as a secondary setting, but even if it was insignificant - why couldn't it be anywhere else? Paldea has an established academy.

 

[Bluemew1512]

The first Pokémon being disobedient is certainly something seen before with Ash and Pikachu. Interesting to see how they’ll tackle it this time.

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

The first Pokémon being disobedient is certainly something seen before with Ash and Pikachu.

And Dawn with Piplup.

 

[Articfoxgamez]

I doubt that it won't matter as a secondary setting, but even if it was insignificant - why couldn't it be anywhere else? Paldea has an established academy.

To be fair it might be because it has an established academy, the naranja/Uva academy seems like it would have a monopoly on schools in Paldea. And they dont wanna favor one game over the other by picking one.

 

[Hidden Mew]

I think it kind of makes sense to not use the Naranja/Uva Academy given that it seems that they offer all of the starters across the various regions. That being said, making it an anime exclusive academy in Kanto is kind of boring. Not to mention it just makes me think that we'll still have some good old fashion Kanto pandering in this world tour series again. They may not use the setting too much after Liko and Roy head out on their journeys, but I wouldn't be surprised they still use it on occasion.

Liko having a difficult time bonding with Sprigatito is an interesting setup for the first episode, even if it might make comparisons with Ash and Pikachu's beginning more apparent too.

 

[nickdt]

Summary courtesy of Dephender at Serebii

Liko is a Paldean girl enrolled at Sekiei Academy, a boarding school in the Kanto region. She's delighted to receive her first Pokémon Nyahoja, but Nyahoja doesn't listen to her at all, and she struggles to bond with it... Meanwhile, a suspicious group of people show up in search of her, wanting the mysterious pendant she has.

Inb4 Liko is attacked by a group of Spearow while protecting Spritgatito and then the Sprigatito comes to her aid.

 

[Turbo]

Can't wait to see how Liko gets Sprigatito to bond with her
And yeah the pendant (and presumably the roy pokeball) might be the focus of the series

They probably picked Kanto as they probably just didn't have enough time beforehand to build out Paldea stuff by the time they were making these episodes as all Paldea pokemon seen are the ones earliest promoted
similar to Journeys with Galar stuff as they had enough to tackle the stuff that was promoted early like the starters, the GMax Snorlax and etc but not enough to place it in Galar I assume

Plus since Roy is apparently from Kanto it could be a way for them to meet

 

[Articfoxgamez]

From what we have seen, Sprigatito is a different kind of not listening than Pikachu was. Pikachu was being stubborn, Sprigatito is just being a cat and just doesn't want to do anything.
I'm a little confused on something, we see a Fuecoco on the Airship, but during the Roy scene he's... also with a Fuecoco.
Are there two Fuecoco? Did the airship one somehow end up with Roy? Is Roy just very quick to get onto the airship and we just don't see any of that in the preview.

 

[Rockapheller]

It is a tad disappointing that the school is based in Kanto, but fingers crossed that the episodes won't end in the school regularly and it won't be relevant where they started off.

 

[Mr.Snack]

To the surprise of absolutely no one, this summary just soft confirms the explorers are indeed the new TR and not rivals. The ceruledge guy may be rival-like, but the other two are 100% copies of TR.

 

[Eclipsical]

To the surprise of absolutely no one, this summary just soft confirms the explorers are indeed the new TR and not rivals. The ceruledge guy may be rival-like, but the other two are 100% copies of TR.

I just hope they have their own motto.

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

To the surprise of absolutely no one, this summary just soft confirms the explorers are indeed the new TR and not rivals. The ceruledge guy may be rival-like, but the other two are 100% copies of TR.

I think they'll be more like the henchman of the Ikemen, who is the main villain.

 

[Emelie]

I guess this confirms that Liko won't be battling or having a badge quest. If she is in Kanto it's not possible to battle the Paldea gyms? Unless she battles the Kanto gym leaders but that would be strange.
Although that would force them to show Misty again so maybe that could be kind of interesting.

 

[Hidden Mew]

I guess this confirms that Liko won't be battling or having a badge quest. If she is in Kanto it's not possible to battle the Paldea gyms? Unless she battles the Kanto gym leaders but that would be strange.
Although that would force them to show Misty again so maybe that could be kind of interesting.

She's going to school in Kanto, but since they are going to be traveling around the world, it wouldn't be impossible for her to battle the Paldea Gyms. I really doubt that they're going to make her into a battler, let alone have her take on the Paldea Gyms, but ideally they can still make better use of showcasing both older and the current generations in Horizons than they did in Journeys.

 

[Lillie]

I don't really care much for the school being located in Kanto, but other than that this series seems interesting so far. I'm hoping it delivers in execution