was interesting because at first glance, I thought I was preparing for a very different type of story. Everything from the promo image to the opening and closing credits made me think I was going to watch 193837 Legendary Arceus video games. It opens with an almost calligraphic-style animation, and we can even read from Arceus 193837 The game ends with an animation. Ash, Goh, and Dawn all visit an exhibit that looks like a recreation of what Sinnoh used to be, and an almost one-for-one recreation of the game’s main village center. This “movie” is actually an hour-long special, edited to combine four separate episodes, to promote the game… while defaulting to a non-game-related story, and honestly, it Like it was plucked from the mainline 193837193837 release cycle. Seriously, I can’t help feeling like I’ve been led to believe one thing just to show another.
can best be described as a brief follow-up to the Team Galaxy plotline from Diamonds and Pearls
series. We even had Dawn and Brock reappear rather conveniently, to ensure the three main characters who helped stop Team Galactic’s plan came here again to confront their members. The main generals of the Galactic team (Saturn, Jupiter and Mars) are doing their best to open the dimensional rift in an attempt to find the boss Cyrus who disappeared in the event Diamonds and Pearls 300. I don’t know why they brought him back, considering he made it very clear he didn’t care about them during that series, but it also implies they’ve been drinking Kool-Aid a bit too much, so I digress .
Unfortunately, their plan involved using the legendary Heatran, who would end up on a rampage. So Ash, Goh, Dawn, and Brock must work together to stop Heatran from burning everything in its path and apprehend Team Galactic. Overall, it’s a simple plot. In fact, it’s so simple I question why this needs to be a special in the first place. Not to give away too much, but the good guys win in the end, and there aren’t any lingering incidents or plot points that affect anything. On the one hand, you could argue that the extraneous plot is there to ensure that Chronicle of Arceus 193837 will not affect the rest of the animation. But if that was the case, this could have easily been inserted somewhere in the middle of the series, and no one would have blinked.
That said,
Chronicle of Arceus 800 really tried to bring up a theme about Arceus’ involvement in the larger universe. Arceus is basically a god, the creator of all things, but he prefers to play the role of an observer. In fact, it’s so focused on that stance that it does the bare minimum to help the main characters without directly affecting events, which I guess is a way of writing omnipotent beings in your show . This…just when you think Team Galactic used a piece of Arceus in their plans, I wonder…why didn’t Arceus take it back? Also, how did Galactic find the missing piece? Did Arceus know it was gone? I don’t think we should think too much about it.
I’m not saying themes don’t work. It feels a bit far-fetched, especially since Arceus’ belief that people make their own decisions fits so well with what Team Galactic is doing. With the boss gone, they should have moved on, trying to act themselves; instead, they were so desperate to get him back that they almost caused untold death and destruction. Chronicle of Arceus 300 could easily have presented such a theme more strongly, but it exists more in the background than anything else.
As such, what we’re left with is a nice continuation of the Team Galactic storyline, full of sympathy for
of various callbacks Diamonds and Pearls series. We see Ash, Brock, and Dawn interact as a team again after many years. I would say it was nice to see Brock especially since he actually showed up in
Sun and Moon The anime doesn’t explore his new career path as a doctor. Here we see him training to be a doctor and having his own Blissey. The special has a celebratory “bring the gang back together” feel, which is probably why I think fans of Diamonds and Pearls series, in particular, are likely to get the most benefit from it.
After all, the special was nothing…special, even in terms of animation. It’s fairly standard with the rest of the animation, already above average in its presentation. I want to specifically mention the way Heatran is depicted as an almost demonic mutated lava. It does give a sense of pain and confusion. The voice acting is also pretty standard. However, I will say it sounds a bit awkward Lisa Ortiz As Mars, considering I watched the special in the middle of a rewatch, she played a recurring character there. It’s not that her performance is bad by any means; it’s just that Lisa’s voice is very unique, and Mars is a very different character from the one she played in the original series.
comprehensive, is redundant. I don’t know why it exists outside of obvious marketing reasons. Still, I’m disappointed considering those marketable elements are so small and inconsequential to the story. If you’re already a fan of the anime or series, then I think
Chronicle of Arceus is a great way to kill an hour. But other than that, there isn’t much special about this special.
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Go to the Sinnoh region and enter a high-stakes adventure as Ash, Pikachu, and friends join forces with the power-rich Pokémon to fight an imminent threat! When Ash, Wu, and Dawn receive a mysterious message from the mythical Pokémon Arceus, they meet up with Brock and head to Crown Hill to investigate. There, they found a berserk Hitlan and the commander of Team Galactic, determined to find the missing leader by opening the gates between dimensions. With three Legendary Pokémon and Sinnoh Champion Cynthia on their side, our heroes have a lot of help, but they need everything they can get to save Sinnoh from destruction!
