Eeeeeeh I’ll have to wait for tomorrow when subtitles drop for SM134. The dialogue is so advanced, I have no idea what the most interesting bits are saying.
But damn, Guzma is an antagonist in a way that he’s not in the league to have fun, but he’s out there to destroy the competitors and..... I kinda got the vibe that he feels the need to prove himself the strongest, from this scene alone:
Like, a little after he’s got Ashirene beaten up real bad with constant poisonings and such, he looks at Kukui and I think he’s sort of asking him ‘did you see that, Kukui?‘. Like, he wants Kukui to acknowledge his strenght here. But then, Kukui’s action seems to throw him off.
Kukui first glances at Guzma, but then changes his view to Suiren instead, as if to ignore him. And the face Guzma has after this is like...
How should I read this face? It kinda looks like he didn’t expect that reaction from him as is in mild shock?
And when Ashirene gets up? Oh now I get it, Guzma thought he had KO’d Ashirene already, but Kukui knew it’s not over, and that’s why he’s in mild shock. He thought he had finished his student already. Ooooooh I like this!
He even kicks the ground the moment he realises he hasn’t KO’d Ashirene yet. Oh boi Guzma is so good in Pokeani! He even gives off this kind of face when Ashirene manages to nullify his Gusokumusha/Golisopod’s Pin Missile attack with Surf.
He didn’t expect that. :D He also kinda shows anger and impatience when the match isn’t over as fast as he thought it’d be, shouting at his Golisopod during some points of their match as well. Oh boi he got anger issues.
Also, his Golisopod is badass, cutting Ashirene’s signature Z-move in half.
With Liquidation move. Holy cow. And Suiren’s face tells it all, she wasn’t expecting that, and she was so shocked by it she didn’t have to command Ashirene at all.
She’s just standing there..... I was hoping for more, but at least she’s shown to be in a shock stance, and she does sound like it too.
What feels very unleague-like, is that Guzma is announced the winner of the round, but no one is cheering! The whole audience is silent. Then Skull Gang breaks the silence but you get my gist. This is why Guzma is a villain. He’s not there to have a good time. He’s there to make the league’s atmosphere the absolute worst. And if he won the league, that would mean the end of the Alola League. Forever. Because letting a un-sporty person win the league wouldn’t feel very sporty, now would it?
Y’know what intriques me about Suiren’s dialogue afterwards thou? She seems calm and all but.... she seems to also acknowledge that despite Guzma’s tactics being brute, cruel and ruthless, he’s not breaking any rules? Mao and Lilie seemed to accuse him of it but, Suiren and Kaki say otherwise? (I actually just got a confirm on this being the actual dialogue on twitter. Glad to have understood it.) Suiren also acknowledged Guzma as a stronger trainer than her, that’s... actually really mature of her. She’s fine with the loss, because she knows she did her best. Y’know... that’s actually what we should expect from her, since she is sorta similar to Satoshi in that regard. Seeing the actual loss scene again, she did show shock in losing the battle. And her voice said so as well. I think the main problem I had with her loss scene was that her face didn’t say it enough.
ANYWHO, some thoughts on their battle. I enjoyed it a ton, as I expected to. I was terrified, due to Golisopod’s gruesome tactics (and being a bugfobic so a bug-type doing something so gruesome just doesn’t help it lol), but I’m also real impressed with the level of strategies Guzma and Golisopod are using. It.... reminds me of both Satoshi and Shinji. Heh. Also impressed with the level of strats Suiren used with Ashirene.
So, what’s up next? Kaki vs Gladion, so the theme there is big brothers. Then Guzma vs Satoshi, theme revolving around the Alola League’s future. I have no doubt in my mind, that Satoshi will beat the crap out of him. Mao did tell Satoshi to revenge Suiren’s loss. :D
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As Guzma goes to return Golisopod after he lost against Ash, we see him rubbing his tears away partially off-screen. I didn't even notice it until someone pointed it out, but this subtle little thing puts so much more into Guzma's character. From what we know, Guzma has never cried due to frustration of not being good enough, he was angry, desperate and violent, but he never cried, at least, not like this. He isn't crying because he lost, he's crying because he realized what he was missing all this time, because he realized that, at some point, he had forgotten his love and compassion for his Pokemon, but they haven't. Golisopod held out this long for him. From now on, he was gonna do things right, for both himself and his Pokemon.
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Sun & Moon | Pokemon Sun & Moon Versions
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Guzma (Pokemon), Kukui-hakase | Professor Kukui, Burnet-hakase | Professor Burnet, Mullein | Molayne, Kuchinashi | Nanu, Acerola (Pokemon), Gusokumusha | Golisopod, Poppo | Pidgey, Lizardon | Charizard
Additional Tags: Christmas Fluff, Platonic Relationships, Platonic Life Partners, Christmas, Trans Male Character, they/them and he/him pronouns for guzma, Transphobia, bc his parents aren’t that good:(
Summary:
Guzma gets invited to have Christmas with his parents. When this doesn’t go well, he has Christmas with his real family on Ula‘ula
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FINALLY after more than 2 years of anticipation, Guzma makes his presence in the anime. We also get confirmation of a Pokémon League arc that could very well be the closing/final act that the Sun & Moon series will feature before signing off to the next generation. It’s just going to get good from here, so y’all better not sleep on Gen. 7 and Alola just yet! You better stay tuned 👀
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Done with rewatching today so quickly back to SM137 preview:
Oh I actually got a good screencap- anywho, I’m trying to decipher this scene right here, where it pans further and further away from Guzma, as he appears to be yelling at the sky? I’m trying to figure out.... does Golisopod here look like it’s still alive, or does it look like it’s fainted? It’s surpringly hard to tell, and it could tell a ton about this scene if we figure it out....
We can tell from this screencap that Ash’s Pokémon, whatever it is, is on the other side of the field, so it could be Guzma just getting frustrated, and then after this scene, unleashes a gruesome attack force with Golisopod towards either Torracat or Pikachu. We can’t tell which. But that’s what I can figure out from this preview at least. Guzma’s gonna shout, and I wonder if it will be the ever-so-famous shout of his:
‘Guzma, what is wrong with you?!‘
I think I heard it’s not that amazing of a line in japanese, but it could be it still. Guess we’ll find out on sunday? Gosh, I’m anxious...
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Guys, as Guzma was helping Golisopod to its feet after they lost the battle with Ash, Golisopod, or Gusokumusha in Japanese, softly said "Musha". He was trying to say Guzma. The same way Pikachu says "Pika pi" trying to say "Satoshi", Ash's Japanese name.
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