Beyond Home Entertainment Adds More ‘Pokemon’ Anime DVD Sets
After previously revealing a fantastically designed Pokemon collection for Australian release, Beyond Home Entertainment has now finalized two more releases that will land on November 19th, 2014, a month ahead of the Heritage collection. The first release is a Pokemon Season 1 & 2 Gift Set, which you can see the package for to the right, as it brings together 2,244 minutes of material across twelve DVDs in the release. The second set out is the Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire Region Collector’s Edition, which is priced higher as it has nearly double the content at 4,224 minutes of material spread across twenty-three DVDs in the box set.
For Pokemon fans, this is great, compact and appealing ways of getting a ton of content together in a smaller space. Something we’ll hopefully see in North American releases sometime.
Season 1 – Catch the Pokémon story right from the very beginning! Meet Ash Ketchum, a 10-year-old boy from Pallet Town, who has an insatiable curiosity for Pokémon. Pokémon are creatures of various sizes and special powers that inhabit this world along with humans. Trainers like Ash are encouraged to undertake their own Pokémon journeys. Accompanied by his new friend Pikachu, Ash is about to embark on his quest to become the Greatest Pokémon Master Of All Time! Season 2 – After a stop in Pallet Town, Ash, Misty and Brock set out to find a rare and mysterious Poké Ball for Professor Oak. Their quest leads them to the Orange Islands, where Ash decides to battle in the Orange League Tournament. With new friends to meet, new Pokémon to discover, and tough new trainers to challenge them, the adventures never end for Ash and his friends!
Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum and his best pal Pikachu are headed to the Hoenn region for another great Pokémon adventure! From volcanic Mt. Chimney to the wealth of islands that dot the region’s shores, Hoenn is the land where elements of earth and ocean meet. It’s more than just geology that makes this place special—Hoenn is home to scores of unique Pokémon species that inhabit the land, sea, and every place between. Ash might not be able to see them all, but he’s ready to try!
He’s also ready to battle his way to the top of the Hoenn League, but his new friend May isn’t interested in Pokémon—she wants to travel the world! That is, until her adventures with Ash inspire her to become a Pokémon Coordinator with championship dreams of her own. Together with May’s little brother Max and Ash’s old friend Brock, Ash and May are off on an epic journey across Hoenn! But when the ruthless forces of Team Aqua and Team Magma shake the region to its very foundations, are three young Trainers—and one know-it-all little brother—ready to confront the forces of evil and save the day?
Join Ash and all his friends in this epic anthology comprising the complete seasons 1-9! Relive all your favourite Poké moments from Kanto, the Orange Islands, Johto and Hoenn. Who could forget the moment Ash meets his best pal Pikachu, while they got off to a rocky start it wasn’t long until they became inseparable companions. Remember when ash meets Misty? He was so desperate to save Pikachu that he stole her bike, wrecking it in his rush to get Pikachu to a Pokémon Centre. Can you remember the first Pokémon Ash every catches? That’s right, it was a Caterpie! This Heritage collection contains all these iconic Pokémon moments and much, much more…
Reintroduce yourself to all of Ash’s friends, Misty – the first travel companion Ash meets on the road. Brock – the first Gym Leader Ash ever faced, and on his own quest to become the world’s best Pokémon Breeder. Tracey – who met Ash in the Orange Islands, after hearing Ash knew Professor Oak, his hero, Tracey invited himself into the group. May – an aspiring coordinator from Petalburg City with dreams of winning the Hoenn Grand Festival. Max – too young to be a Pokémon trainer, but very knowledgeable, Max journeys with Ash to try and find the true meaning of being a Pokémon trainer!
With 54 discs and over 168 hours of content this limited edition collectors set is beautifully presented in a limited release Poké Ball resin mould, the ultimate gift for the ultimate fan!
Chris has been writing about anime, manga, movies and comics for well on twenty years now. He began AnimeOnDVD.com back in 1998 and has covered nearly every anime release that’s come out in the US ever since.
After previously revealing a fantastically designed Pokemon collection for Australian release, Beyond Home Entertainment has now finalized two more releases that will land on November 19th, 2014, a month ahead of the Heritage collection. The first release is a Pokemon Season 1 & 2 Gift Set, which you can see the package for to the right, as it brings together 2,244 minutes of material across twelve DVDs in the release. The second set out is the Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire Region Collector’s Edition, which is priced higher as it has nearly double the content at 4,224 minutes of material spread across twenty-three DVDs in the box set.
