6-546: Pokémon: Twilight Wings ( 薄明の翼 , Hakumei no Tsubasa ) is a Japanese original net animation anime series produced by Studio Colorido and released on YouTube by The Pokémon Company . It is a series inspired by the Pokémon Sword and Shield titles of the Pokémon video games, but it is not a part of the television series . A total of eight episodes, were announced for the series on December 12, 2019. The first episode
12-593: A public apology. Original net animation An original net animation ( ONA ), known in Japan as web anime ( ウェブアニメ , webu anime ) , is an anime that is directly released onto the Internet . ONAs may also have been aired on television if they were first directly released on the Internet. The name mirrors original video animation , a term that has been used in the anime industry for straight-to-video animation since
18-636: The Pokémon Sword and Shield games, The Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra , premiered on November 5, 2020 in Japanese, and later on November 17, 2020 in English. Certain species of Pokémon that were initially cut from appearing in the Sword and Shield games (such as Dewgong) appeared in the fourth episode of the animated series, resulting in various fans feeling misled. In response, The Pokémon Company issued
24-430: The early 1980s. A growing number of trailers and preview episodes of new anime have been released as ONA. For example, the anime movie of Megumi can be considered an ONA. ONAs have the tendency to be shorter than traditional anime titles, sometimes running only a few minutes. There are many examples of an original net animation, such as Hetalia: Axis Powers , which only last a few minutes per episode. But while that
30-554: Was released on January 15, 2020, and further episodes were planned to be released on a monthly basis, however the fifth episode was delayed from May to June due to the COVID-19 pandemic . This series, for the first seven episodes, also serves as a prequel to the Sword and Shield titles. The series initially concluded on August 6, 2020, when the seventh episode was released. However, a special episode titled "The Gathering of Stars" ( EXPANSION ～星の祭～ ), based on downloadable content for
36-539: Was true for the beginning of the 2010s, this began to change in the second half of the decade as full series began to be licensed exclusively for streaming services like Netflix , Amazon Prime Video , and Disney+ . The majority of the production of animation in Japan is made for television or for other audio-visual formats, which include ONAs that can be viewed on television, mobile devices or computers. As broadband Internet bandwidth began to increase in speed and availability, delivering high-quality online video over
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