Waking up to your Pokémon is the whole point, and this show gets it. These shorts understand that the best Pokémon moments aren't battles or adventures, they're the quiet seconds where a sleepy Sprigatito stretches across your pillow or an Arcanine's warm weight pins you to bed. Vertical video format means you're watching from the same angle as someone checking their phone at 6 AM, already half-asleep. The show costs nothing to watch and asks nothing from you except ten minutes a week to remember why you wanted a Pokémon in the first place.

Monday mornings hit different when you wake up next to a Pokémon. PokéOki is a set of six vertical animated shorts, released once a week on Pokémon's social media channels and drawn from the mobile game Pokémon Sleep. Each short centers on a different Pokémon, starting with Sprigatito and continuing through Arcanine, Fuecoco, Bewear, Quaxly and Eevee, as it spends time with you and wakes you up to start the week. There's no grand quest here, just brief, gentle slice-of-life moments with a Pokémon companion to ease you into Monday.