Routes Through Pokemon

We have another Detour for you this week. Ruby and I spent some time leveling up and evolving Pokemon. But we also catch up with how far Serenity Sola has progressed in her journey through Crystal AND we bring in Rosella as she catches up to her mother. Then Flame comes back as we begin Vol 10 of the Manga where we meet our new protagonist, Crystal. She is known as the Capturer and she likes to ki...

We cover another 8 Episodes this week and find ourselves in a swarm of NOT bug Pokemon, we have a hilarious comedic adventure of a Wobbuffet, and we take a good look at Brock and his relationships with girls, the gang, and his Golbat. Then, after the episode, Violet and Hanako need a little more help. So here comes Violet's other favorite person. What is covered: Anime Episodes: Episode 193 (434):...

This week we start off where we left off last time, Ecruteak City. And we get another idea from the game! Very exciting. From there Noctowl outsmarts some Murkrow, we find rainbow lights that appear every 12 years, we meet the worst bear ever, and then we get a trilogy of episodes with an old friend! We then wrap everything up with three Pokemon that run like the wind. After that, we find out what...

After our little detour, Ruby and I journey through Gold, Silver, and Crystal toward Olivine City to...not take on the next gym? We do get to explore a Lighthouse, though, meet multiple sick Pokemon, run into Suicune, evolve some Pokemon, and learn to Fly. And yes, we take on not one gym, but two! And after the episode your demands are met. We go back to Violet. Not only that, though, because Viol...

We've got a new format this week as Ruby and I detour from the expected route from Ecruteak. We Surf all over and uncover a crazy Team Rocket plot. We also meet our first Shiny Pokemon and see our third character from the Red, Blue, and Yellow games (the first 2 being Oak and Bill.) We also have a new guest: Serenity Sola. She shares her experience with Pokemon as she begins her journey through Po...

Another guest returns this week as we cover three chapters of the Manga and four episodes of the Anime. In the Manga we get to meet Jasmine as Gold and Silver try to rescue her inside a tower where an intriguing statue or carving also resides. We see some evolutions and we find out what has been causing the destruction of Ecruteak. Then, Gold and Silver face off in an exciting battle. And is that...

This is a special week, everyone! In this episode we start off celebrating the fact that we're deep in winter now with two more Pikachu Shorts involving winter shenanigans. First, Delibird needs help collecting his dropped gifts with some amusing hijinks throughout. Then, the Pokemon build a Snorlax Snowman...or a Snowlax if you will. And that is the beginning of a magical adventure. Then we move...

It's time to climb high and reunite with some old friends, enemies, and acquaintances. We meet plenty of new Pokemon for the anime as well and learn the mechanics of Wobbuffet's counterattack with a very bizarre response. We also witness another evolution in the anime. But wait, we also get one in the Manga as Gold gets tricked into some battling by the old woman at the Pokemon day care. We also g...

Professor Thistle is a miserly old man who hates laziness, the poor, and especially Christmas. And he is not one to give away any of his collection of Pokemon. But then he receives a message from his old partner, Professor Evergreen, and a warning that he would be visited by three Pokemon and that, hopefully, he could learn to change his ways. So, join Mortimer Thistle as he ventures into his past...

No regular episode today. But we do have the final part to the Pokemon Christmas Carol we've been putting at the end of our episodes this month. Now that Professor Thistle has been given glimpses into the Christmases of Grey and Miss Ratchet what comes next? Will the professor see the error of his ways? Or will he die the lonesome death of a miserly old fool? Is it possible for such a man to chang...

As we continue our journey to Ecruteak we see Gold get some training on how to train and battle with Pokemon by the old woman from the daycare center. And we see a Pokemon evolve. Then, in our Anime coverage, we get, basically, a repeat of a previous episode, we see the Johto Starters learn to get along, we say goodbye to another Pokemon, and we get our 2nd Shiny!!! But more importantly...we see G...

So we start our journey through the Anime and Manga toward Ecruteak City. And to start it all off...we barely get out of Goldenrod and actually have to backtrack in the Manga while in the Anime we have an episode still in town before taking off for a lot of game accurate-ish stuff. In the Pokemon Adventures Manga we meet a Gligar after Gold gets in trouble cheating at pool and the egg he is SUPPOS...

Ruby and Shea Locke chat about their journey to Ecruteak City from Goldenrod. They discover NPC's that become trainers at night, how to move fake trees, and a national park with a bug catching contest. Finding more Apricorns they take advantage of the new circle they complete with Sudowoodo out of the way and they rock smash their way through Dark Cave. But the biggest news is when they reach the...

Who says you have to go on a Pokemon journey alone? Midori accompanies his daughter Violet as she chooses her first Pokemon and takes off to earn the eight badges. But difficult terrain, sinister organizations, and obnoxious trainers get in the way. Can they overcome these challenges? Listen to this first Part as they try and make it to their first badge. This is a collection of parts 1-20 of Viol...

Alright. We wrap up the Johto Journeys season with a ridiculous Trainer Tip that doesn't quite match the game and then we hit one of funniest episodes for Jame before we introduce a new twist to our episode ranking system. But we don't stop there as we have to hop into the first two episodes of the next season: Johto League Champions where we meet Whitney the Goldenrod City gym leader. Then we cov...

We're back to the movies. But first, we get a fun little adventure with Pikacu and a pair of Pichu that leads to meeting a whole bunch of Johto Pokemon in a junkyard fort. Then, in our 3rd Pokemon movie, we enter the town of Greenfield where a little girl who is missing a mother soon loses her father too. Where? Unown. And that's just what happens to arrive to help Molly bring her fantasies to lif...

This week we sort of find out what the man in the mask is doing in Ilex Forest. Though there is still plenty of mystery there. Then, in the Anime we meet another Pokemon that shares a description to a Golduck we met on the Orange Islands. A Pokemon version of Brock. And like Brock, he finds his romantic pursuits to be quite the challenge. We also get to add three more Pokemon to the Ash and Compan...

Alright, as a special Halloween treat, I went back and did some minor re-editing of the 2 parts of our Halloween Special: Fallen Leaves and combined them into one audio track. So you can listen to it straight and without sitting through our game and episode discussions. Enjoy!

This week it seems we are featuring the Pokemon Houndour with an episode of the anime and a chapter of the manga named after it. But that is hardly the most exciting part of the episode. First is the close connection to the video games in both the anime and manga as we enter Ilex forest and deal with a runaway Farfetch'd and the charcoal maker and, in the anime, the apprentice. After that we have...

This journey involved a trek to Goldenrod that was actually a trek to Route 34 back to 33, 32, home, 34, back to Azalea, 32, Union Cave and Ilex forest a bunch, and eventually to Goldenrod City...and back and forth a few more times. We caught a bunch of fun new pokemon...some of them very elusive. Shea Locke did something very dumb with his Gastly/Haunter and Ruby might just have found a Pokemon s...

Rosella is back for this episode where we cover both the Manga and Anime and catch up to where Ruby and I are in the video games. Gold meets Bugsy and runs into Kurt and the Slowpoke well in Azalea Town. Meanwhile, Ash and co find a kid that needs to learn that real battles are not as predictable as he believes and then Ash catches a NEW POKEMON!! And it is his second of the Johto Starters and it...

Having defeated Bugsy in Gold and Silver (and Crystal hopefully soon) it is time to catch up in the Anime and Manga. However, there are few chapters in the Manga between the gym leaders and so this week we plow through 8!! episodes of the Anime. We meet a pokemon that cries loudly, fools that take shelter under TALL TREES in a LIGHTNING STORM. We get an awesome adventure where Togepi is in trouble...

Having caught up to Falkner in both the Anime and Pokemon Adventures Manga, Ruby and Shea Locke return to the Gold, Silver, and Crystal video games. Here we return to the Ruins of Alph to collects some Unown and then it is time to venture on to Azalea Town. Shea Locke obtains a helpful new item for his Chikorita, we find some new pokemon and trainers down Route 32 and here some mysterious rumors a...

Ruby's favorite episode of Routes Through Pokemon is here!!! We had Stantler starring last episode and this week we have....BELLSPROUT!!! Both a chapter and an episode named after the Pokemon but ALSO a tower. And this loveable little plant is featured a good bit too! Meanwhile, Violet finds herself battling and maybe catching a new Pokemon all before literally running into a familiar face. What i...

STANTLER! This deer Pokemon appears to be the star this week. He has a chapter named after him in the manga where he shows up and then he's featured in the anime AND has a short named after him which he also has a role. In the manga we get another look at what the tusks mean for Donphans. We also see Prof Oak and Gold have it out. Also, don't mess with Gold's food apparently! Then in the anime we...