Pokemon Gen 9 Is Getting The Huge Sendoff It Deserves

Pokémon Horizons has always sold itself as a fundamentally different anime from the original Pokémon anime with Ash and Pikachu, and one of the clearest ways this is seen is that the series never adapted the story of the ninth-generation games, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Granted, Pokémon Journeys didn’t fully adapt Sword and Shield’s story, but it at least covered the conflict with Rose and Eternatus, yet with Horizons, Paldea is just a region that the Rising Volt Tacklers visit now and then and not the central focus of the story.