'Pokémon' Movies Have A New Island At Pokémon TV
Brother my brother, everybody Polkamon for a limited time
Back in the days of Watch Disney XD, DisneyNOW, and the original standalone Pokémon TV app, the Pokémon movies were rather legally accessible for instant streaming. For the former, it seemed they had everything through Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel, with the two that premiered after it, I Choose You! and The Power Of Us, getting limited stays. As of writing, Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution and Secrets of the Jungle are still on Netflix while the Diamond and Pearl era movies are on Hulu. Everything else is only available through digital markets and Prime Video Channel add-on. Now, 7 months into the Pokémon TV YouTube channel, the company is kicking summer into high gear by bringing Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back, Pokémon 2000: The Power of One, and Pokémon 3: The Movie - Spell of the Unown aboard, starting Friday July 4 at 3 PM Eastern for a limited time.
The actual announcement read “Pokémon movies arrive on our Pokémon TV YouTube channel! Prepare your snacks and watch the magic unfold in these first three Pokémon cinematic classics! Tune in the first Friday during summer for an exciting adventure with Ash, Pikachu and his friends!” It’s was later clarified these rollouts are spaced by the “first Friday during summer” means Pokémon 2000 will premiere at the same time on August 1 and Spell of the Unown will follow on September 5. Whether they all leave together or flow into each other? How soon will the movies after them come or how many movies can coexist on the channel at once is unknown. Will they come back? They didn’t publish a news article to detail any of this.
Miramax 'Pokémon' Movies Join Monthly Twitch Movie Night After Rights Reversion
It’s been long enough since last checking in on Pokémon’s more volatily growing streaming presence that Pokémon TV is nine episodes into posting season 3 The Johto Journeys while the Pluto TV channel just started another cycle through the full original series sometime Sunday morning. The
As usual, the shorts are not attached and haven’t been for a very long time. They also call these “watch parties”, but being as it’s content for kids, there’s no communal experience because kids content doesn’t have comments or live chats. Very unfortunate. Makes Twitch the most ideal to be quite honest.
As for the movies on other free streamers, I’ve previously covered that Twitch went back to Mewtwo Strikes Back before ever playing Destiny Deoxys, the Prime Video Live TV channel is airing Mewtwo Strikes Back tomorrow night, while Pluto has also made Saturday night a movie night, having just played Pokémon 4Ever a few weeks after playing Mewtwo Strikes Back for the first time themselves.
WildBrain Gains Ash Ketchum’s Final 'Journeys' For 'Pokémon' FAST Channels
On Wednesday, I discovered that WildBrain had expanded its FAST channel footprint for the Pokémon anime with a 24/7 Prime Video channel. I can now confirm it was brand new as a press release was released after publishing my piece. But that wasn’t all. The company announced it had acquired the appropriate rights to Ash Ketchum’s final series as protagoni…
Sources: Pokémon, GameRant