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It’s a new season of the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl anime. This first collection contains the first 17 episodes of the series. It’s amazingly slow as there’s only one Pokemon Contest for Dawn and one a single gym battle in this set, but some interesting things do happen - chief of which Jessie wins a contest ribbon (holy crap!) and Team Galactic is finally introduced as such. There’s a Butch and Cassidy episode, which is always fun, and Ash gets a new Pokemon in Gligar.

You know the drill by now - Ash, Dawn and Brock travel around the world competing with their Pokemon while encountering new Pokemon and wacky occurances. There is always a Pokemon of the day and it’s generally just cute family friendly fun with a Team Rocket trying their best (worst) to be bad guys.

Although BD is a new season of Pokemon, you really have to watch the series from D&P’s beginning to get the full understanding of these episodes. As well, the current voice acting team still isn’t as good as 4Kids, but they’ve improved since originally signing on. Jessie and James do the best job while Ash and Brock still have some work to get the voices down pat - even though I think they’ve stopped trying.

This is a fun little series, and it’s the most adult Pokemon has ever been. I just wish it was progressing faster than it currently is. I think Ash has only three badges and we’re 50 episodes in. What the hell people?

Is it Worth Keeping? Yes
Rating: 6.5/10

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