All the characters are made from different materials, and depending on the Pokemon, they can be either sleek plastic or soft felt. As someone who's not familiar with their work, I have to say that the work they put into Concierge's animation is amazing. The animation for this was done by Dwarf Studios, who also worked on the Rilakkuma and Kaoru anime. Stop-motion as an animation form has actually evolved quite a bit and seems to be coming back into the limelight, what with stuff such as Pui Pui Molcar, Mad God, Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, everything that Laika puts out, and so on. It's much harder to produce because unlike 2D animation which is just drawings made to move with technology, stop-motion is extremely intricate and labor intensive due to the level of technical skills needed for it being much higher than what's needed for 2D, such as prop setup and photography, among other things. Oh, side note: This is gonna be my last review of 2023, and I'm glad that this is the series I get to end the year on, because it's a pretty cute, wholesome little romp.įor anyone who's only familiar with stop-motion animation via Tim Burton and the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials from back in the day, fun fact: A lot of the earliest stop-motion animation was done in Japan, including said Rankin-Bass specials. Every day is fun and filled with new discoveries as Haru comes to enjoy her new life at the Pokemon Resort. Through trial and error, Haru manages to carve out a place at her new job, doing everything from befriending a shy Psyduck to helping a Magikarp that can't swim to save its life. To get away from it all, Haru decides to take a job at the luxurious Pokemon Resort, a resort that caters exclusively to Pokemon guests and isn't the stiff, stuffy work environment that Haru is used to. So what's the story? A young woman named Haru has been having a tough time of it, and nothing's been going right for her. I'm glad to say that Pokemon Concierge is a pretty good short anime on par with the others I mentioned in terms of overall quality, but I feel like it could have been something more. I thought "Ooh! This looks cute! I'd love to watch it!" And just this December, Pokemon Concierge finally dropped for all to see. Pokemon would later dip its toes into the world of stop-motion, with the subject of today's review, Pokemon Concierge, which was announced in the February 2023 Pokemon Presents video. Pokemon Generations, which are animated retellings of various notable events in the games, and later, we would get short web anime such as Twilight Wings, Hisuian Snow, the PokeToon shorts, and Paldean Winds. We got stuff like Pokemon Origins, followed by But starting in the mid-2010s and into the 2020s, the Pokemon animated canon got to expand beyond just the TV anime. As popular as the games and the overall franchise is, and for all the innovations it provided across its associated media, the TV anime was pretty static and formulaic a lot of the time. For decades, the only animated Pokemon property we got was the main TV anime starring Ash Ketchum. It really cannot be understated how great it is that in the 2020s, we're getting so many different Pokemon anime in very different animation styles. I hope this gets even more episodes down the line. My only reasonable complaint is that it's too short but I can only imagine how much work must've gone into making this as compared to a traditional anime, I guess the episode count is low for a valid reason. clay and even the Pokémon have that soft dough like texture to them which increases the aesthetic appeal of this.īasically even if you're not a fan of Pokémon, or just want a cutesy show to watch along with some tea and snacks then this is a good watch tbh.
The world looks so beautiful yet you can tell it's made of It certainly looks and feels so refreshing that the Pokémon almost pop out of the screen lol.
The idea is really creative and no doubt a lot of effort went into this. I have no idea what sort of technique they used for making this but it seems to reminds me of that Old Pingu cartoon or stopmotion animations. As someone who loves Pokémon but has never really commited to watching the entire series, I randomly decided to watch this after seeing it on Netflix and it was a cute little surprise for sure.