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Summary: Finally, a third of a season on one disk
Review: Season two of Pokemon is the shortest yet, taking place right between the Kanto and Johto regions. Although it's taken a long time to come out, it's worth it as each Orange Islands DVD has 12 episodes on it, or roughly about four hours. This is the first set of episodes from season two (three DVD's all together), and has the introduction of Tracy, who plays a big part in this season. The DVD contains 12 episodes:Pallet Party Panic - Team Rocket snatches Pikachu, and the only Pokemon that can save him is Charizard. Can Charizard finally obey Ash in order to save a fellow Pokemon?
A Scare in the Air - Heading for Valencia Island, Ash stops to pick up some food for the journey. When they win tickets for a blimp ride to the island, can Ash and his friends find out that it's really Team Rocket behind the contest?
Pokeball Peril - After making it to Valencia Island, Ash begins his search for Professor Ivy. After he finds the Professor, she shows him a mysterious Pokeball. What could be inside?
The Lost Lapras - Ash and Misty meet Tracy, a Pokemon watcher, and a Lapras that needs help. Will the three be able to get it to the Pokemon Center in time?
Fit To Be Tied - Ash battles Cissy, a Gym Leader in the Orange League. But battles are a lot different in the Orange League, and it may be more than Ash can handle.
Pikachu Re-Volts - Pokemon all over Mandarin Island are turning against their trainers! Can Ash, Misty and Tracy find out who is behind all of this in time?
The Crystal Onix - Ash and his friends find a message in a bottle, which leads them to Sunberst Island. Can Ash help out the person who sent the mysterious message?
In The Pink - Ash finds an island inhabited by pink Pokemon! But they meet up with Officer Jenny, they learn that Pokemon Poachers might have found the island as well.
Shell Shock! - Traveling to a remote Island, the group hears news of a fossilized Kabuto. But someone didn't want to fossil to be found, and tries to get it back.
Stage Fight! - The team goes to the Pokemon Carnival where Pokemon perform plays. But what will happen when Team Rocket tries to steal the talking Pokemon?
Bye Bye Psyduck - In a battle with another water Pokemon trainer, Misty can't find Psyduck. Could Psyduck have evolved?
The Joy of Pokemon - Ash and his friends find a Nurse Joy that travels around the island helping Pokemon. The DVD has great video and audio, and has enough episodes to last any Pokemon fan a long time. It also includes a preview of the fourth Pokemon movie, Pokemon 4Ever. Anyone who loves the Pokemon TV show will love this DVD.
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Summary: Tracey's a dork...
Review: That's my personal opinion on the character, but that doesn't make this season great! I personally found the second season to be a lot better than the first one, and a lot more exciting. Personally, seasons three and four have too many filler episodes, and it's kind of pointless when you're slowing down the show with pointless episodes... Anyway, the Orange Islands has to be a really great DVD set. Ash gets some new Pokémon, and Brock is gone...but only for another season when Professor Ivy does something that was really evil or something o_O;. Anyway, great action, great episodes, great fun!
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Summary: Is it out yet?!
Review: The Orange Island series was, in my oh-so-humble opinion, *the* very best series run on "Pokemon". *cough-biased-because-of-favorite-character-cough* Seriously: Brock gets replaced by another boy, "Tracey Sketchit", for the series, and he's more mature and serious than the wild-girl-crazy kid. Sure, he has his moments and he does notice girls, but he doesn't have a major attack every time he sees anything female like it was with Brock. The shows are colorful and funny, and I love the Lapras pokemon and new additions to the pokemon species: a favorite of most fans is "marill", Tracey's little water-mouse. All in all, the series was great and here's a 26 year old cartoonist telling you that herself! ^_^
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Summary: The Orange League
Review: The Orange League episodes are great! You get to see Ash learn and grow more with his pokemon - plus you really get to see how his training in the first season helps him succeed and be a champ in this season! A lot of people don't like the fact that Brock was replaced by Tracy , but Tracy was a great character for the Orange League episodes. And considering that Brock was a rock-type trainer and the majority of the episodes had the characters in watery surroundings , the swith only made sense. But I am glad that he's back in the Johto Journeys!
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Summary: A great in-betweener between the Kanto and Johto series!!
Review: There are some of my favorite episodes in this saga. We learn how Ash matures and becomes a much better Pokémon trainer who confronts tough Gym leaders in these islands. Although I miss Brock, Tracey provides a good support role for Misty and Ash and a much more mature outlook on things than Brock did. We finally see Ash take control of Charizard and a superb matchup between him and Dragonite in the Orange League championship! Ash really started to come along in this season which is starting to be diminished by the way the Johto series is going.
Anyway... I highly recommend this DVD and hope all the better episodes are included.
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Summary: A great in-betweener between the Kanto and Johto series!!
Review: There are some of my favorite episodes in this saga. We learn how Ash matures and becomes a much better Pokémon trainer who confronts tough Gym leaders in these islands. Although I miss Brock, Tracey provides a good support role for Misty and Ash and a much more mature outlook on things than Brock did. We finally see Ash take control of Charizard and a superb matchup between him and Dragonite in the Orange League championship! Ash really started to come along in this season which is starting to be diminished by the way the Johto series is going.
Anyway... I highly recommend this DVD and hope all the better episodes are included.
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Summary: End Of Season 1, Prologue Of Season 2, Begining Of Season 2
Review: This is a must have! Since it was made quite a while after season 2, the end of season one and some of season two are jam packed on this DVD! I'm going to use the Japanese name of the characters [since this IS a Japanese cartoon] but the English episode titles so you know what I'm talking about. Musashi=Jessica, Kojiro=James, Nyaasu=Meowth, Satoshi=Ash, Kasumi=Misty, Kenji=Tracey, Takeshi=Brock, Pikachu=Pikachu, Sakaki=Giovanni, Professor Ookido=Professor Oak, Yamoto=Cassidy, Kosaburu=Butch, Officer Junsar=Officer Jenny, Psyduck=Koduck, Soonansu=Wobbuffet, Nurse Joi=Nurse Joy
Pallet Party Panic [Season 1]: Satoshi is celebrating his victory as 15th place in the Indigo Pokémon League but since our wish-they-were-evil-but-their-boss-just-likes-to-lie-to-them villains Musashi, Kojiro, & Nyaasu 'spice-up' the party by making Satoshi, Kasumi, and Takeshi's food flaming hot. They then steal what-they-THINK-their-boss-wants-them-to-steal, Satoshi's Pikachu, and 'end the party in a bang' with bombs of theirs. Unfortunately, this 'back fires'!
A Scare In The Air [Season 1]: Satoshi wins a trip to an island in the Orange Archapellago so Musashi, Kojiro, & Nyaasu notify their boss. Sakaki tells them they'll be promoted to The Duridgible Division [M, K, N (short for Musashi, Kojiro, & Nyaasu) call it "The Blimp Brigade". ...M & K flunked out of school and N, not being a human, never went to school so they tend to be pretty dumb at times] when he really wanted them to crash for insurance purposes-and that they'd be dead so he would never have to deal with them again.
PokéBall Perril: The blimp lands on the destination where Satoshi goes to pick up a PokéBall for Proff. Ookido. The professor with the PokéBall caught Takeshi's love interest [as do the majority of the girls he meets] and stays at her laboratory [though when he returns to the Kanto region he becomes miserable at the mention of her name.]
The Lost Lapras: Three Pokémon Trainers are abusing a baby Pokémon that was separated from its school so a Pokémon Watcher/Pokémon Researcher named Kenji comes along with a potion to revive it. The Pokémon is very vulnerable and shy but develops a slight comfort around humans via Satoshi protecting it from being stolen.
Fit To Be Tide: Satoshi's first Gym Battle for an Orange League Badge. What? A Water Race??? Just what is the Gym Leader trying to pull?!
Pikachu Re-Volts: Kosaburu & Yamoto, a former friend of Musashi's, are at it again! They use the method of hypnotism to lure Pokémon into being stolen. To the protagonist's misfortune, Musashi & Kojiro are the only ones who know the culpirates-and that means helping out their nemesis: Officer Junsar!
The Crystal Onix: A little girl sends out a message in a bottle asking for information about a Crystal Pokémon that sparked the artistic abilities of a family member that her brother needs to keep his glass sculpting shop from going out of buisiness.
In The Pink: Musashi, Kojiro, & Nyaasu accidentally wind up on an island with Pink Pokémon that is forbidden due to poachers such as themselves. Having very out-of-the-ordianary ideas, they want to steal the Pink Pokémon to partake in performances at a theme park the infamous trio plans to purchase [even though by then they stoped getting paid from their major job, having to rely of their part-time jobs].
Shell Shock!: An ancient prophecy foretells that messing with an island, there will be a red moon and the island will sink. An expedition is led to observe Pokémon's fossilized shells and Musashi, Kojiro, & Nyaasu come along. You do the math.
Stage Fight!: A Pokémon Showboat holds preformances by actors voicing Pokémon [who are acting and matching the lip-flap] back stage. One of the actor's voices went thanks to Kojiro so a girl takes his place-but she is just begining to understand her Pokémon, which is very easily scared and cryies a lot.
Bye Bye Psyduck: Say what?! Kasumi's Koduck evolved?! Can't be! That thing is dumber than Musashi's Soonansu! ...Or could it be true? If it is then go Kasumi!
The Joy of Pokémon: Kenji falls in love with a Nurse Joi [as he does for every other hot chic] and becomes very worried about her safety during a storm, not thinking about his own safety. Blinded by love he almost costs the lives of dangerously sick Pokémon.
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Summary: ^_^
Review: Well, as a HUGE Tracey-fan, I'm SO going to but this when it comes out. Although I'm torn netween "Hurray, they aren't ripping us off by charging us $30 for three episodes!" and "Ugh, do they have something against the Orange Islands or WHAT?!" for shoving all those episodes on one CD. Still, I love Tracey, so I will buy it, and it's better value than $100 for Tenchi Muyo, which only has 10 episodes. Of COURSE I'm going to buy this, because for ONCE, Pokemon has a genuinely original series - it's not directly lifted from the game, like "Pokemon", "Pokemon Johto Journies" and "Johto League Champions". The characters have more depth - Mateo and his glass-working stuff for example. And Tracey - supposedly Brock's replacement - has a much calmer demeanor and helps along with the romantical development between Ash and Misty, whereas Brock's constant girl-chasing tended to quash the whole thing. I would suggest any Pokemon fan to buy this, as it shows an important part of Ash's quest to become a Master. And if not, there's a couple of good Roketto-Dan centred episodes, and of course, the delectable, sexy-as-all-heck Kenji (Tracey) to keep you drooling. Dewa mataaaaaaa!!!
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Summary: I'm very happy that the Orange League returns!
Review: Yes! The Orange League is finally arriving to DVD! But the question is, will the Orange League return to "Kids' WB!"? According to "Kids' WB!", the answer is no. But don't worry, I'll show you what the 12 episodes of the 1st DVD are, but I can't give you a synopsis on each episode, because I have not yet viewed them. Oh well! Here goes: Area 1: Spirits In The Sky
Area 2: Pokeball Peril
Area 3: The Lost Lapras
Area 4: Fit To Be Tide
Area 5: Pikachu Revolts!
Area 6: The Crystal Onix
Area 7: In The Pink
Area 8: Shell Shock
Area 9: Stage Fight!
Area 10: Bye Bye, Psyduck!
Area 11: The Joy of Pokemon
Area 12: Navel Maneuvers That's all I have to say about the 1st DVD of the Orange League. For the 2nd DVD, I'll see ya in March 2003. I hope you'll enjoy this DVD when it is released. Oh! I forgot to tell you. Due to the September 11, 2001 strike, the episode, "A Scare in the Air", was changed to "Spirits in the Sky". Thank you, and good luck!
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