Preview JN046: Battle and Catch! The Revival of Mewtwo

[Daren]

I don't think Gou is getting Mew based off this interview with the director:

I had always thought that, personally, the whole "Pokémon Master" thing was really quite vague and so one day I went up to the show's supervisor, Mr. Kunihiko Yuyama, and asked him "So what does Satoshi's "I wanna be a Pokémon Master!" dream mean, exactly?" His response? "It's just the silly dream of a child. It's something for him to idolize." I don't know yet if Satoshi's "have a battle with Dande" thing is going to end up going down as some kind of pie in the sky or not. But I think maybe seeing someone appear in front of you put in so much effort, and then having that be what gets you to get up and give it everything you've got toward your dream is a huge step toward achieving something great. Gou's "I want to capture Mew" dream is similar in that the adults who make this show set up this big, ambiguous goal for him and then spend each episode working to fill in the gaps.

Source:

Animedia June 2020 Daiki Tomiyasu Interview

 

[Reborn Talonflame]

The only legendaries I could ever see Ash having (asides from Melmetal) are...

Keldeo
Urshifu

That’s it. Zerora would take too much spotlight away from Pikachu being Ash’s main, and only, electric-type, whilst Solgaleo seems to just be a buddy-type, not a battler.
Mewtwo is a Pokemon, at least in my eyes, that should never, ever, be captured, because it represents what it means to have life.

 

[Ghost Diplocaulus]

The only legendaries I could ever see Ash having (asides from Melmetal) are...

Keldeo
Urshifu

That’s it. Zerora would take too much spotlight away from Pikachu being Ash’s main, and only, electric-type, whilst Solgaleo seems to just be a buddy-type, not a battler.
Mewtwo is a Pokemon, at least in my eyes, that should never, ever, be captured, because it represents what it means to have life.

I personally would have been completely 100% on board with Ash catching a Kubfu and evolving it into Urshifu if there weren't already two Fighting-types in his current team...

 

[Lightning Flame Blast]

I personally would have been completely 100% on board with Ash catching a Kubfu and evolving it into Urshifu if there weren't already two Fighting-types in his current team...

This season has a weird obsession with fighting types it seems. Ash caught two, we got three fighting specialists within 14 episodes and Isle of Armor and Kubfu are sure to be promoted sooner or later.

 

[Ghost Diplocaulus]

This season has a weird obsession with fighting types it seems. Ash caught two, we got three fighting specialists within 14 episodes and Isle of Armor and Kubfu are sure to be promoted sooner or later.

To be fair, that last one was was sorta inevitable, especially with the Darkest Day plotline being wrapped up this early. But yeah, lots of Fighting-type love in the anime lately.

 

[dawn dusk]

The only legendaries I could ever see Ash having (asides from Melmetal) are...

Keldeo
Urshifu

Keldeo and Melmetal aren't legendaries. They're Mythical Pokémon

 

[PkmnTrainerV]

TBH I could see Go getting Mew just long enough for some climactic battle and then immediately releasing it. Not more than that though.

I don’t see Mew going into a Pokeball. At most it’ll probably assist Gou with some crisis as a wild Pokémon.

I could see Go catching Mew at the end of Pokemon journeys when he and Ash split

I’m sure Mew is meant to be a vague unachievable goal like Pokemon Master for Ash as said in the interview with the series director.
The entire point of the Pokemon Mew in the anime is that it’s so elusive that no one can hold it down to one place.

 

[Reborn Talonflame]

Keldeo and Melmetal aren't legendaries. They're Mythical Pokémon

Mew is a mythical. Are we saying that Mew isn’t a legendary? Mythical is just a separate catergory for legendaries, that they are event specials.

I personally would have been completely 100% on board with Ash catching a Kubfu and evolving it into Urshifu if there weren't already two Fighting-types in his current team...

That’s the reasoning behind me believing Ash won’t be battling with Zamazenta during this arc, and instead Zacian, which I guess was backed up by last episode.
Maybe Go gets a Kubfu and trains with it, to develop himself.

 

[Lightning Flame Blast]

Keldeo and Melmetal aren't legendaries. They're Mythical Pokémon

Same thing.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

I could see Ash catching Latias, but that's very unlikely.

Same thing.

No. A separate category.

Are we saying that Mew isn’t a legendary?

Yes. Because it's a Mythical. The term has existed in Japanese since the inception of Mew's existence.

 

[nickdt]

I could see Ash catching Latias, but that's very unlikely.

No. A separate category.

Yes. Because it's a Mythical. The term has existed in Japanese since the inception of Mew's existence.

Its the same thing.

Mythicals and UB's are a sub-class of Legendaries, but are still legendaries.

 

[Lightning Flame Blast]

No. A separate category.

There isn’t any difference between them, so this really isn’t a factor on whether someone catcches them or not.

Cobalion is a legendary and Keldeo is a mythical. Nothing’s putting them apart beyond marketing.

 

[PkmnTrainerV]

Another thing I find meaningless is the legendary/mythical difference in the anime. There’s no consistency in any different way the writers might handle a legendary vs a mythical either way and the term even exists due to a purely gameplay distinction. The terms arise due to the fact that mythicals cannot be found in game without events bar very specific exceptions (before people Psycho Boost me into oblivion with their ORAS Deoxys).

Such a difference literally can’t even exist in the anime.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

Its the same thing.

Mythicals and UB's are a sub-class of Legendaries, but are still legendaries.

I disagree. They're separate categories, they're just all "Special Pokémon". But let's discontinue this argument before it extends too much.

Such a difference literally can’t even exist in the anime.

That much, I can admit. It's unnecessary to discuss the definition of Legendary or Mythical is regards to this discussion.

 

[Panky..]

The way I see it:

• Legendaries: God-like entities/Pokemon where they're either omnipotent or very powerful, or vital to the ecosystem in some way or the other. Disturbing any of these can result in serious ramifications on the world in some way no matter how minor.
• Mythical: Rare or forgotten Pokemon, given the status because they're literally... myths. But mostly because of rarity. They may or may not be strong, but are nowhere close to legendaries in strength and are not vital for the most part.
• Ultra-Beasts: Literal aliens, mons from a different space-time realm. They can be as mundane as Pidgeys and Ratatas or as rare as Mythicals, but they're classified here because they're inter-dimensional.

This is independent of how the games classify them, and only based on anime feats/facts.

 

[Beatsy Ray]

They are all Legendary Pokemon, but the event exclusive mons are ALSO categorized as Mythical. All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

They are all Legendary Pokemon, but the event exclusive mons are ALSO categorized as Mythical. All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.

I disagree, but I won't start an argument over it.

 

[Black&White]

I don’t see Mew going into a Pokeball. At most it’ll probably assist Gou with some crisis as a wild Pokémon.


I’m sure Mew is meant to be a vague unachievable goal like Pokemon Master for Ash as said in the interview with the series director.
The entire point of the Pokemon Mew in the anime is that it’s so elusive that no one can hold it down to one place.

Catching one Pokemon is more achievable then becoming a Master. Go could be the first trainer in history to catch it

 

[Panky..]

Catching one Pokemon is more achievable then becoming a Master. Go could be the first trainer in history to catch it

Mew is not some common critter like Pidgey, Ratata, Tentacool etc. for this statement to hold any weight. In fact, this very series' first episode literally established that Mew is the very embodiment of a free spirit, also portraying how powerful, finnicky and difficult to pin it is. Then there's this little find by @Beatsy Ray that shows how Goh's entire goal (and to some extent, his character) is not even well founded or properly structured in the first place.

(from Spoon.2Di interview of series producer Mr. Tomoya Negishi, when asked about difficulties Ash and Gou will face in the future)

"For Gou, it's how he's coming across more and more Pokémon whom he has to actually face off against in battle instead of just chucking Monster Balls at them and calling it a day. This is a challenge for us on the production side as well; since we set it up so that Gou wants to get all the Pokémon then that means we're eventually have to figure out what to do with the legendary and mythical Pokémon, you know?"

This is the most interesting part of the interview for me, because it implies that they haven't even decided what they plan to do with Gou. They hadn't even considered what to do with Legendaries at this point, I wonder if they even know if Gou will catch Mew or not. It really looks like they haphazardly came up with the "catch all the Pokemon" character and threw him into the series, thinking "we'll just figure out what to do with him later". Of course that doesn't mean that the character won't be well written eventually, but I think it certainly explains why Gou has kind of been all over the place, with minimal lasting development. They're just winging it.

Not to mention, if Gou encountering and battling more powerful Pokemon is meant to represent a "wall" in the same way that Bea was for Ash, than I think it's a complete failure. Instead of serving as a setback or a moment of character growth, these encounters have actually awakened his inner battle-prodigy, and he's come off as more competent than Ash in these episodes.

 

[Black&White]

Mew is not some common critter like Pidgey, Ratata, Tentacool etc. for this statement to hold any weight. In fact, this very series' first episode literally established that Mew is the very embodiment of a free spirit, also portraying how powerful, finnicky and difficult to pin it is. Then there's this little find by @Beatsy Ray that shows how Goh's entire goal (and to some extent, his character) is not even well founded or properly structured in the first place.

We'll see. They've changed so much of the status quo in recent years Mew may finally be caught