For more than two decades, Pokémon movies have sold the same promise of a rarer creature and an emotional gut-punch meant to outshine the weekly series. That approach worked when the franchise treated ...

Pokémon is a Japanese anime series — based on the 1996 video games Pokémon Red & Blue — that has been going on since 1998 with no signs of slowing down any time soon. For the most part, the series ...