Here's Volo's voiced lines via AbsolutelyPM! There's a few lines where he's upset and you can hear the underlying crazy, but he does sound convincing enough otherwise. (I'm still thinking that we'll get an alt in his Sinnoh outfit later around 5th year anniversary where he'll go full ham.)
Looking forward to his "partnered with people" lines since we can still stick him with Rei on a team, tho I don't think we will see them getting an interaction yet. That's probably where his "What a strange connection we share" line to Cynthia comes from.
Our promo shots for the anime tomorrow, a little bit of an extended shot where Sprigatito starts to evolve, but nothing else new.
And our TCG art today features the Lilligant line! Such nice art 😁
Hi sorry I need to do some more Pokemon posting bc this is the funniest shit. the cute-looking Pokèmon TCG series is making "TM10" part of its branding. Like, TM10 from the games - its the TM for the move Hidden Power, thats cute! Its reflecting the main character discovering herself in the same way the move works in the game, what a cute little detail!
Except uh. Just one problem.
Game Freak in all their brilliance removed Hidden Power from the franchise four years ago in Generation 8* and its still not able to be used in Scarlet and Violet. Its not just that you cant teach it to Pokèmon anymore, you straight up cannot use the attack even if you trade in Pokèmon from older games who know it. Its like a banned technique.
So then that begs the question – if the TCG show is gonna be referencing TM10 this much, but TM10 *isn't* Hidden Power anymore, surely that means TM10 is another similarly inspiring attack - Stored Power, or Calm Mind, or Smart Strike?
Well, depending on if its Gen 8 or 9, I hope the kids will have fun Discovering Their Own Magical Leaf and/or Discovering Their Own Ice Fang. Truly inspiring words. love how well managed this franchise is