It's been pretty much nine months since the commemoration of the exact date that Pokémon celebrates its major 25th anniversary - a big one indeed. That means there's only about three months before the momentum is handed over to the 26th anniversary and the previous one becomes set in history. But before that can happen, there are a few more happenings that can serve to aid things to proceed to those closing moments, and this month's happenings comprise the first concluding part, thus being a "penultimate resolution".
One of those "resolutions" concern the P25 Music program. All the artists are set in stone and so are their songs, including Yaffle with a collaboration number ("Reconnect"), J Balvin handing out some Latino appreciation ("Ten Cuidado"), and ZHU as the key remixer. The CD version contains 10 tracks while the digital album version contains 14 tracks, three of which are the ZHU remixes from The Blue EP. Altogether, the artist selection has a certain representative variety, even if some are not as well-known as the others, and the songs cover a good swath of topics inspired by Pokémon. It's worthy enough for this major anniversary.
Another resolution is the featured region of the month, which would be the Kanto region, which needs no introduction to the biggest and oldest fans of Pokémon as the region where everything started: the franchise, the species, the characters, the fascinations - everything. With all eight major generational regions of Pokémon now featured, the exhibits and features on the official anniversary site and beyond are now complete, and they certainly make the anniversary that much more complete at this point.
Yet these are only "penultimate", as what is "ultimate" may be the ones that come soon enough with the release of Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, as well as Legends: Arceus a little afterwards. Even so, that still makes up the three months ahead along with other possibilities, and there's a lot of room for "ultimate" resolutions to be achieved as the major anniversary year wraps up and makes way for next year's anniversary.
With the major anniversary winding down, resolution is definitely at hand for matters of the major anniversary. The P25 Music program and the featured regions are a given for this, with both of them now having complete pictures. That just leaves the big Pokémon games to follow with their "ultimate" nature. At least, for now, the "penultimate" matters have the chance to shine and contribute to making this major anniversary what it is.
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Three years ago: Pokémon Go Event Rollup, 10/27/2018
Four years ago: Expecting Something Special
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