Greetings, everyone! As always, I'm Lief Katano, and I'm here bringing the news on the latest Pokémon Direct directly to you! Unfortunately, due to circumstances outside of my control, this is not a liveblog, as was the case with every other Nintendo Direct blog made by yours truly. But in case you're too lazy to watch the video, or if you want to hear my opinions on this Direct, here it is!

The Direct opens with the opening to Pokémon Red. Except it's actually opening up to the Pokémon Direct, complete with weird Ishihara sprite instead of Red! Isahara's the main focus of this Direct, it seems, and he begins with a brief history of Pokémon, comparing Red and Green. To commemorate the anniversary tomorrow, he prepared a video!

It's a montage of people interacting with Pokémon throughout the ages - trading, catching, and engaging in battle. Those climactic moments - full of victory, defeat, and everything in between. The global aspect of Pokémon is also touched on. The video concludes with a new Pokémon adventure being announced - Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon! ...Well, two, I guess. Hm. A Holiday 2016 release date is announced.

Special emphasis is put on the Chinese translations to Pokémon Sun and Moon, for...some reason. I'm not sure why.

But the intent is to overcome the language barriers with Pokémon, which is cool-sounding.

Of course, Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow are arriving tomorrow. However, with it comes a surprise twist. You know how, while your Generation III Pokémon could continue to migrate every game up, Pokémon from Generations I and II were stuck in their games (or at least the Gen II games) until the end of time, or their battery? Well, that isn't a problem any more! ...Well, okay, it still is. Your level 100 Charizard is still going to be stuck in your Red game. However, say you got another Level 100 Charizard in the eShop version of Pokémon Red. With the power of the internet - and Pokémon Bank - you can transfer your Pokémon from Red, Blue, and Yellow to Pokémon Sun and Moon! No word on whether or not it's compatible with X, Y, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, though I'd bet not, sadly.

And, with a promise of more celebrations to come this year, Ishihara signs off.

Honestly, I thought this Direct was a little underwhelming. We barely got any information on Sun and Moon, other than it's coming to the Nintendo 3DS and Magearana is presumably in it. If it isn't, against all odds, a sequel to X and Y, all of the build-up Zygs got in the anime will amount to nothing, unless they make the equally baffling move to have it not focus on new legendary Pokémon this time. In addition, half of this Direct was spoiled by Nintendo filing a trademark application. You didn't need any 4chan-esque hacking shenanigans for that - it's for all the world to see. The other half, that you can transfer Pokémon from Red, Blue, and Yellow to Sun and Moon, is...actually pretty neat, if only because it allows setting up for some new move shenanigans, though outside of a battle simulator it's probably going to be pretty lukewarm overall. Unless you can breed the moves onto new Pokémon, which...eh.

I was going to mention there being a literal economy of Mews possible, but they could probably just block Pokémon with Mew's index number (hex 15) from being transferred over. They'd have to do something like that, anyways, given the Missingno. data in RBY.

Either way, this has been Lief Katano, signing out.