Why Pokémon?

Someone once asked me what was the saddest movie I’ve ever seen. I wasn’t – and still am not – embarrassed to say that the answer is, “Pokémon: The First Movie.”

Debuting in 1998, the original Pokémon movie was encounter with feelings about death. As Pikachu tried to shock Ash’s stone body back to life, my 6 year-old heart was never the same.