Pokemon Season 2 (Orange Islands) Review

To start, unlike my previous reviews where I rank the animation/ music/ characters/ storyline, this review will be shorter and focus in on highs/lows.  So here goes!

  

Ash and friends take on more adventures in the Orange Islands.  So after being defeated embarrassingly by Ritchie in the Indigo League, and perhaps even worse by Gary's presumably new Eevee (Pikachu should be named pathetic), Professor Oak sends Ash to retrieve a mysterious item for him.

For those unfamiliar with the Orange Islands in the Pokemon world, they're a chain of islands only in the anime and the Electric Tail of Pikachu manga. 

Right off the bat, young male fans finally get a healthy dose of fan service in the ultra-sexy Professor Ivy.  A much needed reprieve from settling for Misty and Jesse all season.

Hehe, guess Ash isn't gay after all.

Dayum!

+1 High / -0 Low

Holy shit Ivy is smoking hot!  The Japanese animators just wanted to thank their young male fan base, so they gave us another big breasted beauty!  Cue Prima (or Lorelei)!

I'm suppose to watch this without getting a boner?!

Misty: "Did those hurt?"

+2 High / -0

Back to the beginning of the season, we get a bombshell dropped on us when Brock leaves the group to stay with Ivy.  As a fellow guy, I salute you!  Now go tear that shit up!

So to replace our favorite loverboy, we get Tracy Sketchit who likes like a hippy lacrosse player. Apparently the Pokemon writers wanted to avoid complaints about Jap/Asian stereotypes of Brock (his trademark slit eyes) so they made up an anglo-saxon looking mofo to replace him.  Nobody cared, so they brought Brock (that's hard to say) back at the end!

+2 / -1 Low

So in order to travel between islands Ash found himself a new pokemon.  Sadly, Ash only caught 2 pokemon in total in the islands.  But we do get to see Ash mend his relationship with Charizard.  Seismic toss FTW!  It's a wash.

+3 / -2

The gym battles were...Interesting.  Instead of full on battles at gyms with only 1 type of pokemon, there were mini-skill competitions like target shooting and canoe making.  If we were lucky there was a battle thrown in.  My biggest gripe was with the Navel island gym leader, Danny.  Apparently it's a pre-requisite to climb a giant fucking mountain side without a safety harnesses or pokemon assistance in order to challenge the gym.  

Awesome policy!  Kill all your challengers (or disqualify the cheats) so you can jack off all day and do nothing.  And even if they do challenge, they'll still have to survive the death sled ride on an ICE CANOE down the mountain side.

+3 / -3

For the most part, the battles throughout the season were enjoyable.  Charizard got owned, Golduck PWNED, and we got our first official double battle of the series!

+4 / -3

Finally, Ash only needed 4 badges to compete in the Orange Island league.  Understandable since the season was considerably shorter than the first.  Funny note, when Ash gets his badges verified at the end, the official uses a scanner.  Ummm, sea shell badges have barcodes?  Fail.

But the bigger fail is that Ash is immediately able to challenge the league champion Drake for the Champion's cup.  And given that they hold the battle in a Roman colosseum, these champion battles don't happen often.  But what's from stopping another trainer to arrive with 4 badges and challenge Drake the day after Ash's battle?

Back on track, the end battle is truly epic.  Only issue is Ash once again got a hax win with a never before used pokemon.  But Drake's Dragonite was worth it.  

+5 / -3

There's definitely a lot I failed to mention from the season in this review, but based on overall more highs than lows, I highly recommend fans to continue on from season 1.  If you can't find the DVD, download the torrent here! 

Ash finally gets some tit!  See ya Misty ;p