I always have the Pokémon theme song stuck in my head after watching a few episodes. It never fails: I finish watching the show for the night and then I find myself singing random variations of it the rest of the night and into the next day until about the early afternoon when it tends to dissipate. Then I watch a few more episodes in the evening and the cycle begins all over again.
My lady and I were discussing the Misty/Dawn swap tonight and we discovered that Netflix fails to include over 30 episodes of the original airing of Pokémon’s Indigo League. After doing a bit of footwork, we learned that networks in the US will typically purchase episodes in batches of 52, to run them daily over the course of three months; a regular season. Netflix bought a batch, slapped the season one title on it and called it a day.
That’s honestly really fucking lame. Almost as lame as Netflix completely blundering the dub on their reissue of Evangelion Neon Genesis. That was extra fucking abysmal.
It’s sad that these networks don’t seem to take into account the deep appreciation anime fans have of these series. It’s all money to them, which I would understand if they weren’t losing viewers to competitors due to their shitty purchasing and licensing decisions. Fans are out looking for alternative sources to view older anime in their original forms because this reissue shit just isn’t cutting it. I was so grateful to have retained my Evangelion DVDs all these years when I discovered the shit job on the dub in the Netflix adaptation. Thankfully, there are sources available where the full first season of Pokémon can be found.
Sorry, not sorry, Netflix.
Anyway, Brock would totally lose his cool if he saw @asiri’s Nurse Joy:
