Review S23 EP14: Raid Battle in the Ruins!

[Pkmndub]

Cast:
Sarah Natochenny
Zeno Robinson
Michele Knotz
Rodger Parsons
Casey Mongillo
Tara Jayne Sands

Sam Black
Tyler Bunch
Kyle Hebert
Emily Jenness
Bill Rogers
Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld
Alejandro Saab
Erica Schroeder
Sean Schemmel
Marc Thompson

 

[RetroPokeFan]

Hebert and Saab are here so I'm wondering if Saab voices Karabari and Hebert is the group leader.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

Dub name changes:

Ruins of the Titan -> Colossus Ruins
Keira -> Kira
Karabari -> Shame Seeker

 

[BigDocFan]

And the award for worst dub name goes to

Karabari -> Shame Seeker

 

[RahmaFatima]

Why "Shame" seeker? Why not "Shiny" seeker?

 

[BigDocFan]

Turns out his name is Shade Seeker, not Shame Seeker which makes more sense

 

[marshiyanmisuta]

It's supposed to be his name and surname, or just a description?

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

Discovered a dub edit: when Kira explains how she realized someone was inside Cofagrigus, the fantasy of Cofagrigus having a person placed inside is edited to not include said body or Cofagrigus's body opening up, only showing Cofagrigus's arms/legs bending downwards. The sound effects of Cofagrigus opening and closing still remain, though.

 

[Eclipsical]

I get the name “Shade Seeker”, Shiny Pokémon are a different shade, but like, why not just call him a Shiny Hunter? It would be a reference to real shiny hunters and people would’ve appreciated it.

 

[BigDocFan]

Kira has had her voice actor confirmed, its Tara Jayne Sands


View: https://twitter.com/TaraSandsLA/status/1304811838291341313

 

[SKYRYAN]

If someone can edit the fantasy of Cofagrigus having a person placed inside back in, I would be thankful.

 

[FinnishPokéFan92]

Another fix: it's not Shade Seeker either, it's Shane Seeker.

 

[Emmy]

Pretty decent episode. As someone who loves archaeology, a ruins episode always gets me excited. Solid plot and solid COTD characters, also seeing the Raid Battle was also very cool. Overall an entertaining episode that I enjoyed despite being a standalone episode.

By the by, with so many "ancient civilisations" in the Pokémon world. I guess GF could always try going back in time for a game if they ever run out of ideas for Regions.

There were only two noticeable problems I had with this episode. The first (and more minor one) being that whilst I enjoyed the colourful cast of characters who showed up, having both a Ranger and a Shiny Hunter did feel underused and could have easily gotten their own episodes each, which wouldn't have bothered me if this was an older series where they had a higher chance of showing up again but I fear this being Journeys they probably won't. The much bigger issue was that there was some really strange pacing in this episode. Between the episode opening in Unova, the capture of Darmanitan and the ending where they find the golden chamber only to hard cut back to the Lab - it was all very strange.

 

[Islander Princess]

Another episode I didn't watch subbed, so the dub was my first experience with this one.

It was just okay. I agree that the pacing of the episode was super off; I didn't really like how much it jumped around. And I would've liked to see a bit more of Unova, even though I know the episode's main focus was the ruins.

Dragonite is so cute! I love how he pouted when Ash recalled him to his poke ball, lol. It was also nice to see Goh battle with a Pokemon other than Scorbunny, even though I had problems with the battle itself.

I was afraid the COTDs would be kind of obnoxious, but I thought they were fine with the exception of the group leader...his gag just wasn't funny and actually got really annoying by like the third time he did it. I actually like the concept of a shiny hunter in the anime and would've preferred to see Shane utilized in an episode that focused exclusively on shiny Pokemon. Kind of felt like a wasted opportunity here.

As for the raid battle...not really my favorite thing to watch. I just find them to be really chaotic and not that interesting to watch. I'm hoping for some better ones in the future, because this one definitely didn't keep my attention.

So-so episode overall. Pacing and a mediocre battle definitely hurt this one a lot.