Can a live-action movie capture the Pokemon setting? Yes I think so.
Can a live action movie depict Pokemon themselves convincingly? Sure.
Can a live action depict the characters of Pokemon convincingly? This is where it gets to be a huge uh... I think you lose a kind of range of expression that you can only get in anime that you don't get in live action.
I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016







