The Pokemon Firm has launched Pokemon: Path to the Peak Episode 1, the primary installment of a brand new animated sequence revolving round Pokemon Buying and selling Card Recreation.
Pokemon: Path to the Peak was first revealed throughout this week’s Pokemon Presents showcase, the place we additionally received to see an cute new Detective Pikachu Returns trailer and eventually received a Scarlet and Violet DLC launch date (for half one, at the least).
The brand new animated present follows Ava, a younger lady who’s beginning at a brand new faculty after her household strikes from their previous city.
It is membership week on the new faculty, and it isn’t lengthy earlier than Ava falls in with the Pokemon Buying and selling Card Recreation membership, which can also be referred to as “TM10”.
In the event you’re a Pokemon fan, you will most likely already know what that refers to, but when not, it is most frequently the TM for the transfer Hidden Energy (though it is truly Ice Fang in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet).
Ava rapidly meets Joshua, an avid Pokemon TCG participant, and I do not need to spoil what occurs subsequent simply in case you need to give the episode a look ahead to your self.
It is solely round ten minutes lengthy, and there is some fairly cute animation and characterization, though it would put you off in the event you’re not a fan of earnest dialogue. This is not a kind of self-referential postmodern animations, in spite of everything.
Per the official Pokemon web site, Pokemon: Path to the Peak will consist of 4 episodes total.
The primary one dropped in the present day, and the subsequent is due on August sixteenth, after which the next two will launch one week aside (so August twenty third and August thirtieth).
It appears like all the episodes will likely be uploaded to YouTube as nicely, so you can observe together with Ava’s progress as she discovers her innate expertise for Pokemon card battling.
