Pokémon: Hisuian Snow is everything that’s beautiful and brutal about the Hisui region
by Charles Pulliam-Moore from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZCJ4)
Alec and his new Hisuian buddy, Zorua. | Image: The Pokemon Company Unlike the Pokemon anime and games set in the present day, where humans and Pokemon live in harmony as friends and competitors, Pokemon: Hisuian Snow - a new limited series of digital shorts based on Pokemon Legends: Arceus - takes place in the distant past at a point when people did not yet fully understand pocketable monsters.
Like Arceus, Hisuian Snow's first episode, Onto the Icy Blue" from writer Taku Kishimoto and director Ken Yamamoto, tells the story of a young person learning firsthand just how unforgiving the Hisui region can be. Rather than focusing on a time traveler who arrives in Hisui by way of a rift in the sky, Hisuian Snow details how its protagonist Alec (Lizzie Freeman) and his father (Steve Kramer) made lives for...