Chibi Devi didn’t air last week and I needed to keep myself busy somehow.
Pokémon: The Origin is a four episode OVA anime adaptation of the original Pokémon Red game. For the most part it’s very faithful to the source material and it really hit quite a few nostalgia buttons for me. This would have been out sooner but we waited until BSJ aired it as this source has fewer ads covering the video and is generally better quality than alternatives.
All four episodes aired back-to-back – so you can either choose to watch it as a single feature length film, or you can break it up an episode at a time. There is no real OP to speak of and only the last episode had an ED/credits.
There are two subtitle tracks, one liberal TL based on the game (default), one literal TL (weeaboo).
The first is faithful to the Pokémon Red we all played growing up – as that’s the only reason we did this. It uses the English localised names for the trainers, gym leaders, towns, Pokémon, moves, items and any iconic dialogue we spotted. No honorifics as the game didn’t have any. Pokémon Dollars rather than Japanese Yen.
The second is what you’re more accustomed to coming from Doki. It uses the official Japanese romanisation of trainers, gym leaders, towns, Pokémon, moves and items. It has all honorifics. Some parts are more literally translated, rather than using localised script from the game. Japanese Yen rather than Pokémon Dollars.
We had a poll of staff members working on the show and none of them wanted to watch a literal script. We’re not that happy with the literal script we created so we’ll revisit it for the BDs if we do them.
Credits
Cooltrainer: teg
Jr. Trainer♀: Orillion/NeWbY/Sakurahime/Termascur
Rocket: NeWbY/Termascur
Biker: alexskc
Sailor: xMythycle
Bug Catcher: Orillion
Gambler: Lucidity
Mad Scientist: Zdm321
Super Nerd: TheThing
Youngster: Sturt
From the staff!
<&Termascur> “i was going to work on my backlog, but then TheThing asked me to do this.”
<&Termascur> “green’s blastoise ain’t got shit on my blastoise”
<&Zdm321> “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition”
<&TheThing|mac> Hey, teg, when you actually release this, can you keep me off the credits? I don’t want ixlone to know I’ve been stalling his shit to sneak and do Pokemon instead.
“Working on this show was such a blast from the past. A short one, sadly, but one that really hit back home to a journey that started 15 years ago for some of us. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.” – Lucidity
Sturt: EVERYONE LOVES SHORTS
<&NeWbY> its too late
<&NeWbY> i missed the moment
HD: [Doki] Pokemon The Origin (1280×720 h264 AAC)
This is Hi10p, I just tagged it as h264 as I wasn’t thinking.
- [Doki] Pokemon The Origin – 01 (1280×720 h264 AAC) [5CEA8D4D]
- [Doki] Pokemon The Origin – 02 (1280×720 h264 AAC) [2B43D88A]
- [Doki] Pokemon The Origin – 03 (1280×720 h264 AAC) [6FB7C818]
- [Doki] Pokemon The Origin – 04 (1280×720 h264 AAC) [D2CD41DE]
SD: [Doki] Pokemon The Origin (848×480 h264 AAC)
- [Doki] Pokemon The Origin – 01 (848×480 h264 AAC) [583FD83D]
- [Doki] Pokemon The Origin – 02 (848×480 h264 AAC) [856BB780]
- [Doki] Pokemon The Origin – 03 (848×480 h264 AAC) [66B57599]
- [Doki] Pokemon The Origin – 04 (848×480 h264 AAC) [709FADE4]
Wednesday 9th October 2013 
3:15 AM 
>Viridian City
>not Pokerap
Confirmed shit music taste.
Fuck you, this shit is my jam.
POKéMON \o/
I’m one of those older guys who played the original red and blue. I remember i had like 140 hours on those games which was a lot for me back then. I still have then in my closet actually. Anyway, the nostalgia alone from this will be worth it. Thanks!
*spoilers*
until the end that is>.>;;
Thanks for doing this doki, I’ll watch this from some nostalgia!
ps.: Zombie doko thething? ( ¬‿¬)
Viridian City. ( ¬‿¬)
Cheers for the hard work. Will watch when the download is finished.
I thought I was incredibly high when I saw this, but I’m glad it’s real. POCKET MONSTERS FO’ LIFE
Best Pocket Monster Series ever now if only they remade it again
and i quote from a friend
“Red – 24 hours become a champion
Ash – A whole endless episode , still on the way to league , cant do a $^*H”
Gracias!
Viridian City 😀
kthx for animus gonna go watch them alone in my room forever
:>))
Will the literal sub track have TL Notes in Spanish pls
Yes.
Señor teg, quieres hablar español conmigo ( ¬‿¬)
Señor Teg, me encanta tu sombrero!
It’s like your body instinctively knows hi10p is shit.
-_-
Thankyou for this.
I’m genuinely surprised to see Pokémon here, though it’s all good. Can’t wait for the 3DS game lol
Pokémon X!!!!!
damn can’t wait for the game D:
X is for fagets! ( ¬‿¬)
I got both X and Y lol
I’ll get X later on… too broke lol
Lol I’m not sure which edition I’m buying, I’m picking up from Tesco on the day. Royal Mail is so unreliable that I don’t really want to get the game the middle of next week 🙂
Subtitle error: Episode 3, 02:47. “Team Rocker”
Awesome thankyou. The music scared the shit out of me though as I opened multiple tabs at once and it just “started”. LOL!
Was flipping thru my tabs trying to figure out wtf was going on….totally unexpected.
Still Need more seed for mayoi neko overrun 1080p
It’s still seeding on a 100mb/s server. If you aren’t connecting there’s probably an issue on your end. Or you’re using some peerblocking software and blocking our server.
Hm… Not really sure about the decision to axe the more literal script, considering this show is going to get dubbed and Americanized very shortly.
Holy shit Pokemon FK YES!
HOLYSHIT Red is voiced by the name person that voices Naruto?!
Or is it just me?
Yeah, they’re both voiced by Takeuchi Junko. http://myanimelist.net/people/15/Junko_Takeuchi
I like to “Pokémon: The Origin”! They’re comfy and easy to wear!
This was… unexpected!
Thanks for this. I enjoyed a bit nostalgia. Aaaahh, the good’ol times…
Whoa, this was unexpected (but cool)! 😛 I never had a gameboy, so I didn’t play the old games when I was a kid (though I did borrow Pokemon Stadium from a friend, and played it some on my N64). I watched some of the TV-series, but not too much of it. I was more into Digimon to be honest. 😛 So I don’t really have the necessary nostalgia factor to properly enjoy this, but I’ll check it out anyway. Who knows, maybe it won’t be so bad…
Thanks for this, I was a bit disappointed they did not make it a bit longer, but oh well. Am getting and watching it in one go since it is only 4 episodes. I only played Blue version for a while, I never did finish it. The same with Yellow version, always did finish Silver & Crystal though (0‿‿0)