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This series combined the animation style of the anime series with the original game mechanics and narrative, giving the original story of the Pokémon franchise, the story that started all of it, a fresh look. The series follows Red on his journey through the Kanto region, where he obtains badges and yearns of becoming the best Pokémon trainer.
An average Pokémon episode costs about $100,000 Internationally, The Pokémon Company International handles production and distribution of the anime with DuArt Film and Video and published by VIZ Media, who was VIZ LLC, but merged with Shopro. The anime currently airs in 169 different countries.
As it is based on the Pokémon game series, the anime deals with a lot of the same material such as locations, Pokémon battles, Gym Leaders, and Badges . It is officially referred to by TPCi as Pokémon the Series, or as "the Pokémon animated series", "Pokémon animation" or "Pokémon cartoon".
1,115Pokémon / Number of episodesPokémon is a Japanese animated television series based on the successful Pokémon video game series. The Pokémon anime series debuted in Japan on April 1, 1997, with 1,178 episodes as of December 17, 2021.
The Pokémon Anime Almost Had a Bizarrely Dark Ending It seems like the Pokémon anime will go on forever, but head writer Shudo Takeshi once planned for a surprisingly downbeat ending. The Pokémon anime has been running since 1997, and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.
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Ash Ketchum is the protagonist of the Pokemon anime, whose goal is to be the greatest Pokemon Master of all time. When the show began back in 1997, Ash started on his journey throughout the Pokemon world at the age of ten, and several years later, he is still ten-years-old.
Ash Ketchum Serena has known Ash since childhood, although Ash initially forgot their first meeting until she mentioned the camp they attended and he only remembered her as "the girl with the straw hat". Secretly, Serena has developed a crush on him and seems to entertain the thought of becoming his bride.
Sazae-san - 7,701 episodes Recognized by the Guinness World Records, this anime holds the world record for the longest-running animated TV series. The show is about a mother named Sazae-san and her family life.
List of seasonsSeason nameMediumEpisodesPokémon the Series: XYAll48Pokémon the Series: XY Kalos QuestAll45Pokémon the Series: XYZAll48Pokémon the Series: Sun & MoonAll4332 more rows
At roughly 22 minutes per episode, excluding any spin-offs, mini-series or films, there are about 426.8 hours of Pokémon to watch.
Ten-year-old Ash aspires to be the greatest Pokémon (pocket monster) trainer in the world. To do this, he enlists the help of many friends, and his own Pokémon, Pikachu.
In December 1997, more than 700 Japanese children suffered seizures, vomiting, irritated eyes and other symptoms after viewing a flashing red background in the episode "Electric Soldier Porygon" from the Japanese version of the show. The show was pulled for retooling until April of 1998.
Whenever I think of Pokemon my heart sinks, but in a good way! It reminds me of my younger life (this is like four years ago by the way :P) This was easily my first and most-loved animes because it outlines my childhood from 10 - 14 when everyone liked it, not that everyone carried on liking it like I did.
Pokémon, which is short for Pocket Monsters, is a media franchise created by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori back in 1995.
The Johto arc encompasses a total of three seasons. The first, The Johto Journeys, aired from October 14, 1999 to July 27, 2000 with a total of 41 episodes; Johto League Champions, the second season, aired from August 3, 2000 to August 2, 2001 and had a total of 52 episodes; the third and final Johto season, Master Quest, had 65 episodes that aired from August 9, 2001 to November 14, 2002. The arc had a total of 158 episodes.
Running Time: 97 minutes. Synopsis: Ash Ketchum wakes up late one morning after breaking his alarm clock in his sleep. He eventually makes it to Professor Oak’s lab, but is told that the three starter Pokémon (Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander) have already been taken by trainers who were on time.
The Johto arc contains three feature-length movies and a special television movie aired as part of the second Johto season. Two of the feature-length movies tie directly into the Johto arc, while the third one foreshadows Generation III Pokémon. The special television movie is a sequel to the first Pokémon movie.
Diamond and Pearl (which is another name for the Sinnoh arc) consists of a total of four seasons: Diamond and Pearl, which aired its 52 episodes from September 28, 2006 to October 25, 2007; Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension, which aired its 52 episodes from November 8, 2007 to December 4, 2008; Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles, which aired its 53 episodes from December 4, 2008 to December 24, 2009; and, finally, Diamond and Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors, which aired its 34 episodes from January 7, 2010 to September 9, 2010. The arc has a total of 191 episodes.
Ash eventually pulls a severely weakened Pikachu back into his Poké Ball when the Pokémon attacks Ash, and it begins to fade when Marshadow notices the wing has dissolved. Ash is in a gray world but is brought back. Ash takes the newly formed rainbow wing and places it on top of the crystal structure.
Ash encounters Tapu Kokoagain, with his classmatesencountering it for the first time. Ash and Pikachuhave a battle against Tapu Koko , which gets called off when Tapu Koko flees. Ash and Pikachu perform Gigavolt Havocfor the first time. In the process, Ash also performs a Z-Movefor the first time.
Kenny is revealed to have obtained a Floatzeland his Prinplupis revealed to have evolved into an Empoleon. Ursula is revealed to have obtained two Eevee, which she evolves into a Vaporeonand a Flareonduring her appeal. Dawn, Nando, Ursula, Zoey, and Jessilina successfully clear the Performance Stage.
Pokémon, being a globally popular franchise, has left a significant mark on today's popular culture. The various species of Pokémon have become pop culture icons; examples include two different Pikachu balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Pokémon-themed airplanes operated by All Nippon Airways, merchandise items, and a traveling theme park that was in Nagoya, Ja…
In 1998, Nintendo spent $25 million promoting Pokémon in the United States in partnership with Hasbro, KFC, and others. Nintendo initially feared that Pokémon was too Japanese for Western tastes but Alfred Kahn, then CEO of 4Kids Entertainment convinced the company otherwise. The one who spotted Pokemon's potential in the United States was Kahn's colleague Thomas Kenney.
In November 2005, 4Kids Entertainment, which had managed the non-game related licensing of …
The name Pokémon is a syllabic abbreviation of the Japanese brand Pocket Monsters. The term "Pokémon", in addition to referring to the Pokémon franchise itself, also collectively refers to the 905 fictional species that have made appearances in Pokémon media as of the release of the eighth generation titles Pokémon Sword and Shield. "Pokémon" is identical in the singular and plural, as is each individual species name; it is and would be grammatically correct to say "one P…
Pokémon executive director Satoshi Tajiri first thought of Pokémon, albeit with a different concept and name, around 1989, when the Game Boy was released. The concept of the Pokémon universe, in both the video games and the general fictional world of Pokémon, stems from the hobby of insect collecting, a popular pastime which Tajiri enjoyed as a child. Players are designated as Pokémon Trainers and have three general goals: to complete the regional Pokédex by collecting a…
All of the licensed Pokémon properties overseen by the Pokémon Company International are divided roughly by generation. These generations are roughly chronological divisions by release; every several years, when a sequel to the 1996 role-playing video games Pokémon Red and Green is released that features new Pokémon, characters, and gameplay concepts, that sequel is considered the start of a new generation of the franchise. The main Pokémon video games and t…
Pokémon, also known as Pokémon the Series to Western audiences since the year 2013, is an anime television series based on the Pokémon video game series. It was originally broadcast on TV Tokyo in 1997. More than 1,000 episodes of the anime has been produced and aired, divided into 7 series in Japan and 22 seasons internationally. It is one of the longest currently running anime series.
Pokémon has been criticized by some fundamentalist Christians over perceived occult and violent themes and the concept of "Pokémon evolution", which they feel goes against the Biblical creation account in Genesis. Sat2000, a satellite television station based in Vatican City, has countered that the Pokémon Trading Card Game and video games are "full of inventive imagination" and have no "harmful moral side effects". In the United Kingdom, the "Christian Power Cards" game was intro…