Giratina and the Sky Warrior - DVD release in the USA offers English SDH subtitlesĪrceus and the Jewel of Life - Blu-Ray release in Australia for best quality The Rise of Darkrai - DVD release in the USA offers English SDH subtitles Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea - DVD release in the USA offers the Pikachu's Island Adventure short. Lucario and the Mystery of Mew - DVD release in Australia offers widescreen Jirachi Wish Maker - Blu-Ray in the USA offers best qualityĭestiny Deoxys - Blu-Ray in the USA offers best quality Pokémon Heroes: Latios and Latias - Blu-Ray in the USA offers best quality, but still suffers from blue tint Did a widescreen release in Canada actually exist? the only Canadian DVD release I can find is cropped, judging by back cover art. Pokémon 4Ever - No decent DVD release, DVD release in Australia is widescreen but lack shorts, initial DVD release in USA is cropped (and later DVD releases lack the short too). Pokémon 3: The Movie - DVD release in Japan for widescreen, on a single sided disc. Pokémon: The Movie 2000 - DVD release in Japan for widescreen, and Yadoking's Day short. Pokémon: The First Movie - DVD release in Japan for widescreen, and the complete movie. Looking over English releases of the Pokemon movies, and many still lack decent releases. So for this not to have special features. Some think this is the only good saga of Ash's journey. Some think this is the best saga of Ash's journey.
This is the saga that not only kids can watch, but people who were kids who watch the episodes when they premiered and now are in their twenties.Ĭommentaries, behind the scenes things, video material talking about Pokemon's origins (Japanese and American) and how the game series was adapted into a TV series, anything like that. The recent boxsets of the original Kanto saga- if any Pokemon DVDs released recently could've used special features, these would've been it. I do wish more recent releases had more things on them besides episodes.
I don't know how many fans prefer that, especially compared to the whole Western fandom, but that's my theory. I think more Western fans care more about being close to the Japanese version when it comes to new TV dub episodes and making sure that releases are as cheap as possible. I don't think there is any hope for better releases of the Pokemon movies or series, unless other companies take over the English rights, which is very unlikely to happen. Beyond Home Entertainment and Viz Media are just as bad in that way, with Viz Media re-using older discs for their re-releases of the Indigo league on DVD too. The early seasons are still using the old discs originally released by Magna Pacific, with no attempts to improve the video quality at all. Beyond Home Entertainment have a really nasty habit of dropping any cartoon series they think isn't selling well enough, they have dropped so many cartoon series over the years, and are even worse than Viz Media in that way.īeyond Home Entertainment frequently re-releases the Pokemon series on DVD in various new packaging, but they never actually change the content on the discs. But Beyond Home Entertainment dropped the Blu-Ray releases of Pokemon movies, because they were not selling well enough. Only the Blu-Ray releases of the Pokemon movies in Australia actually offered good video quality, in my opinion. The only real advantages are we get the Pokemon movies in widescreen and sooner in Australia, along with a few extra Pokemon titles (Pokemon Chronicles, Pokemon Origins) been released. We gets all sorts of strange packaging which doesn't protect discs, won't last long term, and can be difficult to actually use. The DVD releases for Pokemon DP: Galactic Battles, Pokemon DP: Sinnoh League Victors were cropped, even though produced for widescreen. The DVD releases of Pokemon movies are just as bare bones, lack English SDH subtitles and still could have much better video quality. It is worse in the action scenes, like the first image shown in comparisons above. The DVD releases of older Pokemon seasons suffer video quality issues due to too much compression. The initial DVD release of Pokemon season 1 (Super Wallet) was missing 4 episodes. The DVD releases in Australia have many issues: The DVD releases by Beyond Home Entertainment (formerly Magna Pacific) in Australia aren't much better overall. It isn't just the Region 1 DVD releases from Viz Media, the English version of Pokemon lacks good DVD releases in general.