The Pokemon Anime has been a huge part of my life since I was little, like many others. My dad pirated and burned the entire series (which was in sinnoh at the time) onto CDs for me to watch on my tv.
I watched the show pretty actively in english up until XY, where I got a little through the first season before losing interest (I did not like Serena LOL. I thought the main female character actively crushing for Ash was annoying at the time).
When the Sun/Moon anime released, I watched the first few episodes in english with a friend, and then out of my impatience for waiting for the dub, I continued it in Japanese. I don't remember where I left off in the SuMo anime, but it was decently far into the first season of it. Then my ADHD hit and I stopped for awhile. I have not seen any of the SWSH anime at the time of starting these reviews (January 2023).
Recently between 2021 to 2022, I decided I wanted to pick up the anime again, but from the start this time, both out of curiosity to see as much of the anime in it's original japanese as possible, but also to eventually see the parts of XY that I missed, and eventually, the modern anime. At the time I've posted this page, me and a different friend are about to start Johto Journeys. You all get to see our progress! You can presume that all of the english viewings were from my childhood, unless it's listed as being watched in exclusively english, in which case it means I probably couldn't find a subbed version and had to rewatch it again in english instead.
The sections are organized chronologically, going by
[This List], which means movies and shorts will be listed in their respective locations in each season. If you want to search for specifically my movie or short reviews, you can always use "ctrl+f" to find them! Mini series like the PMD episodes, Origins, Twilight Wings, etc, will be listed as their own 'seasons' at the end of the list.
Credit to bulbapedia for the episode thumbnails, I considered taking my own screenshots to use for photos, but given the way me and my friend have been watching, I didn't want to have to interrupt our viewing for a screencap every single episode. Maybe one day I'll go through them again and take my own photos of my favorite bits from each episode to use! But for now, bulbapedia is very handy!