>>19819901>Pokemon amiePlaying with cute fully animated Pokemon models and treating them like real pets by feeding them food and stuff. If their amie bars get high enough, you get "anime hax" in battles, with things like "shaking off the sleep out of love."
>Move animationsMany moves were animated in more detail depending on the Pokemon using them. Like a tail based move showed that Pokemon moving their tail.
>Appearance of NPCs on the overworldThis one is a bit difficult to explain and is really subjective, but I just think that the overworld model faces, minus the pixelation, look similar to the anime's drawing style.