FANG-TAN
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If Mew and Deoxys are available in Sevii Islands somewhere like in FRLG/Emerald (or anywhere for that matter)
Mew wasn't on the Seven Isles. Faraway Island is a remote island jungle in Guyana. Lugia and Houou were found on the Seven Isles (Navel Rock), though.
Point A: We do know for a fact that Pokemon like Aggron and Abomasnow existed long before their respective debuts (in universe). The ultimate weapon flashback showed quite a few species in fact.
Point B: The PokeDex entries don't actually mean anything in universe. They're a classic example of Gameplay and Story Segregation. We know that because well the PokeDex entries often make little sense. Besides they often contradict things. Banette for instance according to it's Pokedex is some sort of living doll but we know that's not true because it's an actual species. It evolves from Shuppet and that can breed.
There's also the fact that it references real life animals, which is clearly just for the player's benefit.
Masuda tweeted in early March that he had just met OLM to discuss something. I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't do that for a project related to the regular anime, so my guess is that the meeting was releated to an Origins-like adaptation. Now, this doesn't mean that Masuda oversaw Origins' production, but it does lend credence to that possibility.
That's a hasty assumption, considering nothing of the sort is implied in that tweet. All he basically says in that tweet is that he met with OLM, "the people in charge of making the Pokemon anime" (not "THE ORIGIN"), and had a great time talking to them, particularly Toshiaki Okuno (one of the head animation producers at OLM that works on the mainstream anime). He has assisted the regular anime before, and he tweets about random mundane things like watching the Japanese dub of Frozen, so who's to say it isn't just him tweeting about having a great time talking with the anime staff during a possibly mundane meeting? Heck, the purpose of the meeting could have been discussion pertaining the The Cocoon of Destruction and Diancie movie for all we know (anything, really).
Also, if he was meeting with OLM to discuss another Origin adaptation, why just OLM and not the other two animation studios that were responsible for its production? Any involvement by Masuda isn't very convincing to me, anyway. Didn't he have a large hand in producing films like the Deoxys movie, where Rayquaza acted totally out-of-character from its game counterpart? I don't think he has problems with artistic liberty.
I would love another adaptation like The Origin, but I wouldn't get my hopes up over a tweet like that.
And why not? They were in charge of the B2W2 animated trailer and they were part of The Origin collaboration, so they're not completely against making an animated feature that's actually closer to the source material. Not to mention, you're confusing the entire company for the staff employed to make the questionable and nonsensical decisions of the regular anime. The Origin had different writers in charge of the screenplay, and with two other studios involved, a different approach in adaptation is expected.With OLM being one of those studios? I doubt that it was their initiative.
As much integrity it had with its focus and story objective compared to how the regular anime is now and regardless of how it "feels", it's still a promotional tool in regards to introducing an aspect from an upcoming product. That doesn't make it a bad thing, but that's what it is.It's wildly different. Origins did not feel like an obvious promotion tool.
It functioned the same way any other Pocket Monsters anime adaptation does as an advertisement. As you said, there were better ways to introduce the new Mega Lizardon X form, but they still used The Origin to do that. That's no different from half the things the current anime does in regards to its promotions. Game Freak as a corporate company probably didn't care about whether or not it was faithful to their vision as long as it was getting attention.
They wanted to make an adaptation of Red and Green, and included stuff from the games that the other adaptations left out in order for it to be a unique adaptation? It was certainly a treat, but there wasn't anything particularly strange about it that a person would ask "why bother?" My reaction to the Pokemon Tower arc was more of a "why didn't the other adaptations do this to begin with?" rather than "Game Freak totally had a say in this!" People are free to apply Broad Strokes to their headcanon if they really wanted, but until proven otherwise, it's not officially relevant to what happens in the games and/or Game Freak's opinion on how to handle a protagonist like Red.They did a lot more than that, including things from the games that the other adaptations had never done. Why bother?
As I said, Mega Lizardon X was possibly one thing that was imposed onto the production team so they could advertise Pocket Monsters XY. Coupled with Kantou nostalgia, that might even be the reason why the animation was even green-lit to begin with. If Xebec/Production I.G./OLM intended The Origin to be an extremely special adaptation with Game Freak overseeing the production, and contained new details about the original games that are now integrated to the games' mainstream canon, is there any reason why they never bothered to state this? Wouldn't that been beneficial to ratings, and consequentially, sales?
I''m not totally throwing out the possibility of Game Freak having some sort of supervision when it came to the special, but I'm just saying that you put a little too much faith in that assumption. Even if that were the case, there's also the fact that there are adaptations (not just Pocket Monsters, and not just anime either - this includes American animation, different mediums, etc.) that are supervised or written by the original creator9s), yet they treat the adaptation as a chance to take a new spin on their own concepts. With a franchise like Pocket Monsters, this seems like a huge wasted opportunity considering how vague the games are, but seeing as Game Freak embodies wasted opportunities (to appease a wider audience), it's not too hard to add that in as a possibility within the possibility of them having supervised the project.
I agree.I guess. "Most likely" doesn't mean much when we just don't know what their thought process on this kind of thing is. I'm saying that they have no reason not have Red appear and actually talk, be it in ORAS or another game. It would be a missed opportunity if they didn't do it here considering that there may never be another chance to show what happened to Red between the first two generations.
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