New giant Pokémon has made a surprising anime appearance, months before Pokémon Legends debut: ZA

One of the new giant Pokémon will appear in the upcoming Pokémon Legend: ZA It had made its debut in the anime a few months before the game was launched.

The unexpected arrival took place on the latest episode of the Pokémon Horizon series, which aired last Friday in Japan, “Two of Us, As Friends”.

Among them, one of the new giant Pokémon will debut in Switch and Switch 2 Game Pokémon Legends: Za's look is surprising – its heroic debut is a fan of initial uncertainty about the creature's design.

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The animation is crazy

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This episode left anime heroes Roy and Ally Uruto almost defeated in the battle until Uruto's Dragonite showed signs of being able to develop. The sudden appearance of the giant dragon field is then plated with the rest of the Pokémon, including Roy's giant Mega Lucario, who then rally saves the day.

Then Mixed reactions to designs in Mega Draghite gamethe appearance of the anime now seems to be warmly welcomed. One fan wrote: “The Big Dragons haters are better off apologizing.” “It's flapping that little wing! I love it hahaha,” the second one. ” awww. OK, okay, I won,” said the third time.

It is unusual (although not unheard of) that Pokémon debuts before anime games before playing in Pokémon games. This practice became more common in the early days of the franchise, when various species in the John Toh and Horn area were glimpsed in anime form before the corresponding game arrived. (Remember the feeling of Misty carrying that Togepi egg with her?)

Recently, the practice of making its debut in Pokémon through animated series has become less common, but, in the past three generations, only a few species (Magearna, Terapagos) have received the same treatment.

Pokémon Legends Za will arrive on the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 on October 16. Fans expect dozens of new Mega Pokémon to be revealed, although so far only another species has been officially revealed: Mega Victreebell.

“In general, Legend: ZA isn’t like a complete action game to me,” Ign in our The first hand-on impression of Pokémon legend is ZA's combat system“But it's more like an MMO, casting time, cooldown time and behind-the-scenes math happening. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but I do hope the legend: Za becomes challenging enough to make me issue commands more intentionally and consider switching Pokémon at the right time.”

Tom Phillips is the news editor for IGN. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on the Blues @tomphillipseg.bsky.social