This one lands like walking into a gallery and finding your childhood fossilized behind glass. Daniel Arsham built a career on fictional archaeology, objects eroded and crystal-grown as if dug up a thousand years from now, and here he points that lens straight at Pokémon. Then Kunihiko Yuyama, the man who chief-directed the original Pocket Monsters anime and has been steering that world since the Kanto days, animates it. It's a single short, made for Arsham's Tokyo exhibition rather than a broadcast slot, so nothing is padded and nobody gets an arc. The story carries it, the characters are shapes moving through it, and that's exactly right for a piece this size. If the minute-long teaser Pokémon dropped on YouTube in January 2022 stuck with you longer than it had any right to, you already know why this one is worth hunting down.

Satoshi and Pikachu are in the middle of a heated Pokémon battle with another trainer when a huge burst of light swallows him and hurls him into an unfamiliar place. Satoshi and his friends set off after Celebi, their one lead for finding a way back home. The single-episode adventure fantasy short comes from a collaboration between artist Daniel Arsham and Pokémon. Kunihiko Yuyama, who headed the first Pocket Monsters anime series, directs. It premiered at Arsham's A Ripple in Time exhibition in Tokyo, and a one-minute preview appeared earlier on the official Pokémon YouTube channel.