Despite years of releases, Pokémon has still not made its first shinies available within the franchise's video games. The anime introduced shinies early on and its first few were some of the most memorable in the series. However, fans have never been able to catch or own these iterations in their collections to incorporate onto teams.

Pokémon began as a video game, but quickly expanded into a manga and anime series lasting twenty-six years (and still going strong). The anime debuted in 1997, one year after the games. By the second generation of games, developers had incorporated Shiny Pokémon - species with an alternate color - with the introduction of the red Gyarados in Pokémon Silver and Pokémon Gold in 1999. However, a few other species preceded this inclusion within the first two seasons of the anime, including two popular iterations.

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