The franchise’s mainstay studio, Oriental Light and Magic, is teaming up with WiT Studio to animate the new Pokemon movie, and they’re giving us a new-look Ash in the process.
Tetsuo Yajima, who directed this year’s 20th Pokemon film, is also returning to direct this new one.
And if the character designs look a bit familiar, that’s because Shizue Kaneko (If Her Flag Breaks, Pan de Peace!) is doing the character designs.
Yeah, we’re just not used to Ash being a bishounen or an ikemen, huh?