Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova and Beyond

ポケットモンスターベストウイッシュシーズン２デコロラアドベンチャー (Pokemon Best Wishes! Season 2: Decolora Adventure)

6.4(28,753)

MAL Score

Ranked #8828

Popularity #3540

Action
Adventure
Comedy
Fantasy
Gag Humor
Pets

Episodes: 20
Duration: 22 min per ep
Aired: Apr 25, 2013 to Sep 26, 2013
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Following their clash with Team Plasma, Satoshi sets off once again with Iris and Dent at his side. Their travels carry them into the Decolora Islands, where a fresh journey begins amid new places and encounters.

Otaku Consensus

Adventures in Unova and Beyond lands as a modest but worthwhile coda to the Black & White era: OLM’s compact Decolora stretch works best when it trades league pressure for character-driven detours, recurring faces, gag-heavy monster encounters, and the companion focus fans often praise in Unova. Its reputation remains limited by the broader BW backlash around weaker openings and an undercooked Pokémon League, reflected in its middle-of-the-pack MAL and AniList scores, but long-time viewers tend to value it as a breezy final lap rather than a major competitive peak.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want Pokémon as a light, episodic road-comedy with creature battles, companion banter, and low-friction adventure rather than a dense tournament grind. The 20-episode Decolora Adventure run is especially suited to viewers who like the “between major arcs” texture of long-running shounen: recurring-character energy, animal-partner problem solving, proxy battles, and jokes that keep the pace moving. It scratches a similar itch to Pokémon’s more travelogue-style seasons and the companion-bond appeal of Digimon Adventure, but with the softer gag-humor rhythm of a kids’ adventure serial. If your favorite parts of Unova were Iris and Dent getting actual focus outside Satoshi’s battles, this final Black & White segment gives that ensemble format room to breathe.

Key Characters

S
Satoshi
Satoshi functions less as a league-chaser here and more as the steady adventure engine, giving the Decolora episodes their familiar rhythm of curiosity, battling, and creature empathy.
I
Iris
Iris is one of the reasons fans defend the Black & White run, with the Unova era often singled out for giving its companions more meaningful focus than simple sideline commentary.
D
Dent
Dent’s appeal comes from his theatrical, gag-friendly presence, which fits the season’s lighter island-episode structure and keeps the trio dynamic from becoming purely battle-driven.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
This is the Decolora Adventure portion of Best Wishes! Season 2, a 20-episode run that aired in Japan from April 25, 2013 to September 26, 2013, making it a compact closing stretch rather than a full region campaign.
2
OLM handles the production, preserving the franchise’s TV-anime grammar: readable action, creature-first comedy, and kid-centered proxy battles that match AniList’s high tags for Kids, Animals, and Proxy Battle.
3
The season’s musical identity still carries long-time Pokémon composer Shinji Miyazaki, while its opening and ending are split between Daisuke Katayama and Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku, giving the final BW stretch a distinct late-era sound.
4
Fan discussion around Black & White often credits the Unova material for using Iris, Dent, rivals, tournaments, and Team Rocket arcs more actively than simple gym-to-gym connective tissue, even when the Pokémon League itself is criticized as undercooked.
5
Its reception is notably mixed rather than disastrous: MAL lists it at 6.37 from 28,587 votes, while AniList places it at 61/100 with 110 favourites, suggesting a niche appreciated mainly by committed Pokémon viewers.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Pokémon: Black & White: Adventures in Unova and Beyond is identified as the sixteenth season of the Pokémon TV anime and the third and final season of Pokémon the Series: Black & White.
Fun fact 2: The broader Adventures in Unova and Beyond season aired in Japan on TV Tokyo and in the United States on Cartoon Network, with the English broadcast running from February 2, 2013 to December 7, 2013.
Fun fact 3: The core franchise credits remain present here: Satoshi Tajiri is credited as original creator, and Ken Sugimori as original character designer.
Fun fact 4: The ending theme staff includes Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku as performer, Tatsuki Yanagi on lyrics, and Masanori Takumi on composition and arrangement; the opening credits include Daisuke Katayama as performer, Hidenori Tanaka on lyrics, and Hideyuki Daichi Suzuki on arrangement.
Fun fact 5: A 2014 home-video listing described the season as 550 minutes of Pokémon action, adventure, and comedy aimed across age groups, aligning with the show’s Kids, Gag Humor, Pets, and Creature Taming classification.