Customer Rating: 
Summary: The classic is complete!
Comment: Pokemon Season 1 (Indigo Legaue) is finally complete with this 3rd installment of the box-set by Viz. Great artwork makes it a package when placed together with sets 1 and 2. This is also the only DVD set that completes season 1 to date.
Customer Rating:
Summary: the third installment of season one of pokemon
Comment: the third installment of season one of pokemon. ash finally battles to fulfill his dream in becoming a pokemon master.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good for nostalgia, but that's about it.
Comment: I enjoyed watching Pokemon when I was growing up, and so when they released the box set I had to get it. Unfortunately, Viz Media doesn't quite live up to the anime DVD standards set by other companies. The overall lack of quality was really disappointing.
- The cases themselves feel really flimsy and weak. My first thought when I touched them was "bootleg." The box art is colorful but really kind of plain. It just didn't look as polished and professional as other anime DVDs, which was shocking since I dare say Pokemon is probably one of the most popular (or at least well-known) anime series of all time. Furthermore, there are no included inserts: just an episode list that looks exactly the same as the one on the back covers of each DVD. (I wonder why they even bothered?)
- DVD menus are colorful, albeit very plain and minimalistic (only options are "play" and "episodes"). No Japanese track, and no subtitles. No extras either. You get the dubbed episodes plus the full Pokerap (which isn't a menu option, so you have to skip to it). Again, the price is comparable to the Cowboy Bebop or Big O collections, which also have 26 episodes, but those collections include the full Japanese language track, subtitles, and extra bonuses. AND the box art, DVD menus, and overall quality just feel more professional.
- "Princess versus Princess" and "The Purr-fect Hero" are the first episodes in this collection, which were taken out of order from the second collection and stuck here. It's nice that they did put these episodes in (as opposed to leaving them out altogether, like what they did with "Beauty and the Beach") but it's a bit odd that they didn't just put them in order. It's not that big a deal since Pokemon is fairly episodic, so the chronology of things isn't messed up too much.
- These videos aren't uncut and uncensored, like what you'd find with most typical anime. That's fine with me, since it's not like 4Kids censored or cut a whole lot of stuff from these episodes anyway, but it's still worth noting here. Digital paint is out in full force, mostly just to cover up Japanese text that was present in the original. If you didn't care when you first saw these episodes on TV, you won't care now.
- The video and audio quality are beautiful, and exactly what I had hoped for. Certain scenes might seem kind of "glitchy," but that's because the original animators went back and slowed down the framerate and muted the colors because of the infamous seizure incident. Those scenes really stick out and look funky and ridiculous, but that's not Viz's (or 4Kid's) problem.
Even though I love these episodes, I cannot in good conscience give this collection higher than three stars, an "average" rating: these DVDs contain only the bare minimum to be considered a "collector's box set." Poor production values, combined with zero extras and a rather steep price, hold this back from being really exceptional. If they threw in the Japanese track, a handful of extras, and stronger DVD cases, then we'll talk. As it stands, these are only slightly better than my old VHS recordings of the show, and those tapes didn't cost me $35.
Again, I compare this collection to Cowboy Bebop or Big O: all three series include 26 episodes, but Cowboy and Big O just have so much more. I would've expected Viz to handle Pokemon, part of a multi-billion dollar franchise, with the same kind of respect and reverence afforded to these relatively obscure series.
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the Pokemon Fans!
Comment: I remember watching the original Pokemon Series when I was a little kid. I used to struggle all the time to find every DVD of the Indigo Series. But now that I have all three box sets, I can see them all again just like the old days. I give this DVD boxset all five stars for it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The end of a Poké-era!
Comment: All 3-disc are in Dolby Digital 2.0 sound and all are in the English language.
Closed Captioning only, no subtitles on any of the 3-disc.
No special features or banned episodes again.
The picture format is in Fullscreen 1.33:1
'Pikachu's Jukebox' is hear, it's just not included as a special feature since it appears in between episodes.
Disc 1: Episodes 53-61
53. Princess vs. Princess
54. The Purr-fect Hero
55. Riddle Me This
56. Volcanic Panic
57. Beach Blank-out Blastoise
58. The Misty Mermaid
59. Clefairy Tales
60. The Battle Of The Badge
61. It's Mr. Mime Time
Disc 2: Episodes 62-70
62. Holiday Hi-Jynx
63. Snow Way Out!
64. Showdown At The Po-ké Corral
65. The Evolution Solution
66. The Pi-kahuna
67. Make Room For Bloom!
68. Lights, Camera, Quack-tion
69. Hollywood Heartbreak
70. To Master The Onixpected
Disc 3: Episodes 71-79
71. The Ancient Puzzle Of Pokémopolis
72. Bad To The Bone
73. All Fired Up!
74. Round One - Begin!
75. Fire And Ice
76. The Fourth Round Rumble
77. A Friend In Deed
78. Friend And Foe Alike
79. Friends To The End
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