Pokémon Generations (Season 1)

Pokémon Generations (2016) is an animated miniseries from OLM you can watch online on iFILM. Eighteen short episodes step back into each generation of the Pokémon game franchise — not to retell the main stories, but to fill in what the games left offscreen.

Co-directed by Park Sung-Woo and Arifumi Imai, the series builds around the scenes players always imagined: Giovanni's calculations inside Team Rocket's base in Kanto, the designs of Galactic Commander Cyrus in Sinnoh, the machinations of Lusamine in Alola. Each episode runs only a few minutes, which keeps the pacing tight and the focus sharp. For anyone who spent years inside these games, it's the kind of supplemental material that actually delivers on the premise. Stream Pokémon Generations online on iFILM.