Pokémon (TV series)
| Pokémon (TV series) | |
| File:Image-Next generation.jpg The current cast of the Pokemon Anime Series, Diamond & Pearl. | |
| Genre | Shounen, Action Adventure, Comedy |
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| Created by | Satoshi Tajiri |
| Anime | |
| Directed by | Kunihiko Yuyama |
| Studio | Japan: Oriental Light and Magic, Shogakukan US: 4Kids Entertainment, The Pokémon Company/TAJ Productions |
| Movies | |
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• 5 Pokémon movies | |
| Specials | |
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• 2 full-length TV specials | |
The Pokémon (ポケットモンスター, Poketto Monsutā, Pocket Monsters) anime metaseries, based on the video game series, was created in Japan and was then adapted for the North American television market. The metaseries appeared outside Japan before the video games did, and has since spawned several movies. It is aimed at younger viewers but many other devoted fans of all ages enjoy the anime as well. Originally a single series, Pocket Monsters, it has since been spun off to two: Pocket Monsters: Advanced Generation continues the story of Pocket Monsters, while Pokémon Sunday (formerly Shuukan Pokémon Housoukyoku) is a series of stories revolving around some of the recurring characters.
Airing and Production of the Series
The English adaptation of the series was produced by 4Kids Entertainment (for eight seasons), with video distribution of the series was handled by Viz for the TV series for the younger generation as well as the eighth movie forward, Kids WB! and Nintendo for the first three movies and the first special, Miramax Films, and Buena Vista Home Entertainment for the fourth movie through the seventh. The series and all feature films are directed by Kunihiko Yuyama, with English adaptations originally written by Norman Grossfeld and Michael Haigney. However, starting with the ninth season, the American branch of The Pokémon Company, Pokémon USA, replaced 4Kids as the show producers and distributors outside of Japan, and the program has a new voice cast.
The show recently started its fourth season of Advanced Generation, titled Pokémon: Battle Frontier. An English version of Housoukyoku has now been made, titled Pokémon Chronicles which premiered in the USA on Cartoon Network June 3, 2006 at 7 PM ET/PT, and is currently airing in the UK on the Toonami channel and on YTV in Canada. Each season also brings forth a Pokémon feature-length film, and each film up until the seventh is preceded by a Pokémon animated short.
In Japan, both series are shown on TV Tokyo, with Advanced Generation airing on Thursday nights (previously Monday) and Pokémon Sunday on Sunday nights. In the United States, reruns of Advanced Generation can be seen on the air on the Kids' WB! cartoon block on Saturdays. In April of 2006, Kids WB!, which will continue on the newly-merged CW Network, announced the fall schedule and Pokémon was nowhere to be seen, to be replaced by the WB-created series Legion of Super-Heroes. The rights for Battle Frontier have been picked up by TimeWarner's corprate sibling Cartoon Network instead, and now air on CN since September 9, 2006 at 9 am US ET/PT, with a special prime-time episode having been aired the night before (Friday, September 8 at 8:30 PM ET/PT, following the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon special[1] Recently the second Advance series, "Advanced Challenge" started airing as part of the Miguzi block on the US version of CN at 5:00 pm US ET/PT, and earlier editions of the series airs on CN's American sibling service, Boomerang. Cartoon Network's India service, along with their Toonami UK service, also carries Pokémon episodes.
The newest series of Pokémon began airing in Japan on September 28, 2006 and is set in the Shin'ou region, thus based on the upcoming games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. It is confirmed that Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, Brock and Team Rocket all return in the next series, but given a picture released on September 12, 2006, it seems that May and Max will not be retuning as main characters. The new TV Tokyo site has released a picture that now includes Brock, the character in the other scan is nowhere to be seen. [2]
In the United States it is the sixth longest running animated TV show, only beaten by The Simpsons, Rugrats, King of the Hill, Arthur, and South Park. Pokémon has more episodes than any of these shows, with 425 episodes aired in the U.S. and counting. Over 470 episodes have aired in Japan.
Series names
Like many anime metaseries, Pokémon and Pokémon: Advanced Generation episodes are split up into smaller series for the English release, usually to denote the areas and adventures going on. Because of this, series are identified by the opening animation used for the episode, rather than a run of a fixed number of episodes. They are subdivided as follows:
- Pokémon: The Animated Series - Covering the Kanto/Indigo, Orange Islands, and Johto adventures.
- Pokémon: Indigo League - the original English series, covering the Kanto/Indigo story. The subtitle "Indigo League" is not an official name; the title is simply Pokémon.
- Pokémon: Orange Islands - covering the Orange Islands story. The subtitle "Orange Islands" is not an official name; while this second series has a redesigned opening, the title is still simply Pokémon.
- Pokémon: The Johto Journeys - covering the start of the Johto journey, and ending as the protagonists reach Goldenrod City.
- Pokémon: Johto League Champions - continuing the Johto adventures, and ending as the protagonists leave Cianwood City.
- Pokémon: Master Quest - concludes the Johto adventures.
- Pokémon: Advanced Generation - Covering the Hoenn and Battle Frontier adventures from where Pokémon leaves off.
- Pokémon: Advanced - Continuing from Master Quest, Advanced covers the Hoenn adventures until the protagonists leave Mauville City for the first time.
- Pokémon: Advanced Challenge - covers the next three Hoenn gyms and the next four contests.
- Pokémon: Advanced Battle - covers the final two gyms, two contests, the Grand Festival, the Hoenn League and the beginning of the Battle Frontier.
- Pokémon: Battle Frontier - covers the rest of Battle Frontier facilities and the Pokémon contests in Kanto and the Kanto Grand Festival.
- Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl - Covering Ash's adventures in the Shin'ou region, picking up where Advanced Generation left off. The new arc of stories will feature Hikari, based off of the Diamond and Pearl female protagonist, as a main character. It has been confirmed that Ash, Brock, Team Rocket and Pikachu will return as recurring characters. The series premiered on September 28, 2006 in the traditional 7pm Thursday slot on TV Tokyo to coincide with the premiere of the game on Nintendo DS. In her first adventure, the choice of Pokémon that she has to choose from get mad at one another and escape from the research facility. She makes it her mission to retrieve and befriend them.
The Pokémon Series
The main series tells the story of Ash Ketchum (Satoshi) and his quest to become a Pokémon Master. However, unlike in the video games, he is given a Pikachu as his first Pokémon under unusual circumstances. Much of the series focuses on the friendship between Ash, Pikachu, and the various Pokémon and Trainers along the way.
Throughout the run of the show the subject matter changed in a subtly yet in a large way; in the beginning the show was more comical and whimsical (light and airy), using "goofy" humor (or "cute" humor when it came to Pikachu, who would do goofy things in between important scenes (for example, in one episode when Ash is arguing with another trainer Pikachu tries to use weights meant for a Sandshrew and accidentally gets caught in a comical ball shape) mostly caused by either Ash's happy-go-lucky additude, Ash's inexperience in the face of the challenges he fought, Team Rocket (whose plans and failures where often more outlandish and diverse than in the later show), Pikachu's antics, or the occasional breaking of the fourth wall. As the show progressed, however, and as Ash became more of a mature and leader-type character, the main course of the show became more or less serious, and its previous comical nature was (for the most part) changed into comic relief and attributed mostly to Team Rocket.
English-language episode titles tend to be a play on common words or phrases in pop culture (e.g. "I Feel Skitty", "Due's and Don'ts"), although early episode names were mostly translations of their Japanese counterparts.
The Japanese episode titles in the early series often included little or no kanji, partly as a homage to the limited text capabilities of the Nintendo Game Boy, and partly due to the series being primarily intended for children. Kanji, with furigana, appears more regularly in Advanced Generation titles, again partly due to a growing audience and partly as a homage to the increased text capabilities of the Nintendo Game Boy Advance.
Weekly Pokémon broadcast
Weekly Pokémon broadcast / Skuukan Pokémon Housoukyoku ("Weekly Pokémon broadcast") is a closely related spinoff series that airs concurrently with the beginning part of Pokémon: Advanced Generation. The main episodes are stories that star various recurring characters that appear in Pokémon, some of which account for discontinuities of the plot of Pokémon: Advanced Generation. However, instead of new episodes each week, as is the case with Pokémon: Advanced Generation, during Pokémon Weekly Pokémon broadcast other things may air, such as reruns of Pokémon episodes, television airings of the Pokémon movies, cast interviews, and live action footage.
Pokémon movies
During each season of the main series, a Pokémon feature film, starring the main characters from the TV series has been released. As of 2006, there have been nine movies and one feature length TV broadcast (released outside Japan as a direct-to-video movie titled "Mewtwo Returns"), the eighth released on July 16, 2005 in Japan. The plot of every movie has involved an encounter with a Legendary Pokémon, although some may not conform to a strict definition of the word. The movies are also used to promote brand new Pokémon that are supposed to be in new versions of the game.
In the USA, the first three movies were distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Kids WB! and Nintendo, the fourth through seventh were distributed by Miramax Films and Buena Vista Home Entertainment, and the eighth outward is being distributed by Viz Media.
In Japan, all nine movies and beyond are distributed by Toho (Toho Co. Ltd).
Each movie until the seventh is preceded by an animated short, featuring Pikachu and other Pokémon owned by the main characters and Team Rocket. Much of the dialogue in the short is done in the Pokémon language, which consists of grunting (for larger Pokémon) or stating the name of the Pokémon, and most of the intelligible dialogue (monologue?) excluding the narration is performed by Meowth.
Each Pokémon movie has its own special 'Pikachu The Movie' logo.
Spell of the Unown Celebi: Voice of the Forest Pokémon Heroes
The movies, along with their corresponding animated shorts, are:
Pokémon
- Pikachu's Summer Vacation / (Pikachu no natsu yasumi)
- Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back / (Myuutū no gyakushū - "Mewtwo's Counterattack") Distributed by: Kids' WB! and Nintendo
- Features the legendary Pokémon Mew and Mewtwo. Highest grossing of all Pokémon films and of all anime films in the US. Followed up by the special Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (see Pokémon specials/OAVS below).
- Pikachu's Rescue Adventure / (Pikachu tankentai - "Pikachu's Exploration Party")
- Pokémon: The Movie 2000 - The Power of One / (Maboroshi no Pokémon Rugia bakutan - "Phantom Pokémon Revelation Lugia") Distributed by: Kids' WB! and Nintendo
- Features the legendary Pokémon Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Lugia. Although considered by critics and fans to be the better of the two movies at the time, due to it being closer to the original, it failed to match its predecessor's box office draw. As with the first movie, many plot elements were omitted in the dub and other storylines were included but simplified.
- Pikachu and Pichu / (Pichu to Pikachu)
- Pokémon 3: The Movie - Spell of the Unown / (Kesshō tō no teiō - "Emperor of the Crystal Tower") Distributed by: Kids' WB! and Nintendo
- Features the legendary Pokémon Entei and the Unown.
- Pikachu's Pikaboo / (Pikachu no dokidoki kakurenbo - "Pikachu's Nervous Hide-And-Seek")
- Pokémon 4Ever - Celebi: Voice of the Forest / (Serebii - Toki o koeta deai - "Celebi - A Timeless Encounter") Distributed by: Miramax Films and Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- Features the legendary Pokémon Celebi and Suicune. First film to be released by Miramax outside Japan.
- Camp Pikachu / (Pika Pika hoshizora Kyanpu - "Sparkling Starlit Sky Camp")
- Pokémon Heroes - Latios and Latias / (Mizu no miyako no mamorigami - Ratiasu to Ratiosu - "Guardian Spirits of the Water Capital - Latias and Latios") Distributed by: Miramax Films and Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- Features the legendary Pokémon Latios and Latias. Last movie to be seen in theaters outside Japan.
Pokémon: Advanced Generation
- Gotta Dance / (Odoru Pokémon himitsu kichi - "Secret Base of the Dancing Pokémon")
- Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker / (Nanayo no negai hoshi Jirāchi - "Wishing Star of the Seven Nights - Jirachi") Distributed by: Miramax Films and Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- Features the legendary Pokémon Jirachi and Groudon. First film to have a direct to video release outside Japan.
- Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys / (Rekkū no hōmonsha Deokishisu - "Visitor of the Space Fissure - Deoxys") Distributed by: Miramax Films and Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- Features the legendary Pokémon Rayquaza, and the alien virus Pokémon Deoxys. The first fourth-generation Pokémon, Munchlax, makes its' debut in this movie, which was also the first without a short.
- Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew /(Myuu to Hadou no Yuusha - Rukario - "Mew and the Wave-Guiding Hero - Lucario") Distributed by: Viz Media
- Features the legendary Pokémon Mew, Regirock, Registeel, Regice, and four of the new 4th generation Pokémon, Lucario, Bonsly, Weavile and Mime Jr.. First movie to feature a legendary Pokémon from a previous movie.
- Pokémon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea: Manaphy / (Pokemon Renjā to Umi no Ōji Manafi - "Pokémon Ranger and the prince of sea - Manaphy")
- The next Pokémon Movie, it has the Pokémon Kyogre, and four more of the new 4th generation Pokémon, Manaphy, Perap, Buoysel, Tamanta, and elements from the Pokémon Ranger game.
Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl
A tenth movie is said to be in the works. It might possibly be based on the new anime series of Diamond & Pearl.
Pokémon specials/OVAs
Once in a while there would be other animated material that does not fit in with the main series or the movies.
Characters
English names are given before the Japanese names in Western order (given name before surname), when possible. All Japanese names, unless otherwise noted, are romanized from katakana. For the sake of simplicity, English language names will be used in this and other articles in Wikipedia about Pokémon, unless explicitly referring to the Japanese version.
Main Characters
- Ash Ketchum / Satoshi - (see article for info)
- Pikachu - (see article for info)
- ??? / Hikari - New character introduced in Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl "Season 10" (More information as it comes)
- Brock / Takeshi - (see article for more information)
Former Main Characters
- Misty / Kasumi - (see article for more information)
- Tracey Sketchit / Kenji - (see article for more information)
- May / Haruka - (see article for more information)
- Max / Masato - (see article for more information)
Villains
Team Rocket
- Team Rocket / Rokketo-Dan - an evil organization led by the evil Giovanni / Sakaki.
Team Magma
- Team Magma / Magma-Dan - an evil organization reoccurring within the Pokemon: Advance generation series, led by the evil Maxie / Matsuba. Seemingly the goal of Team Magma is to release the beast of the earth, Groudon onto the world, creating new lands and eliminating water as it did millions of years ago. The goals and ambitions are the same as their counteracting rivals Team Aqua, however the two teams despise each other. The two teams have been reported to be no more.
- Tabitha / Homura - Maxie's second-in-command.
- Brody / Bannai - Brody is another member. He is a master of disguise (along with his personal Ditto) and is known as "a man with a thousand faces". When Team Magma disbanded, Brody began to operate independantly as "The Phantom Thief".
Team Aqua
- Team Aqua / Aqua-Dan - an evil organization reoccurring within the Pokemon: Advance generation series, led by the evil Archie / Aogiri. Seemingly the goal of Team Aqua is to release the beast of the sea, Kyogre onto the world, flooding it with ocean as it did millions of years ago. The goals and ambitions are the same as their counteracting rivals Team Magma, however the two teams despise each other. The two teams have been reported to be no more.
- Shelly / Izumi - Archie's second-in-command.
Team Galaxy
- Team Galaxy / Ginga-Dan - an evil organization reoccurring within the Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl series, led for the first time by a woman.
- ???/Mars
- ???/Saturn
- ???/Neptune
- ???/Venus
Movie Villains
- Lawrence III / Jirarudan - A Pokémon collector, appearing in Pokémon: The Movie 2000. He is often referred to as being a "Pokémon collector", but there is no evidence he ever had a Pokémon before the events of the movie. He travels in an airship the size of a small city, the name means "Flying Palace", and gathers artifacts from the world over. Despite the scope of his collection, he is rather shortsighted about the world around him. His entire plan to capture Lugia reflects this, as it involves the disruption of powerful natural forces. What we know of his past is limited to the first object in his collection — an Ancient Mew card. He has a Cameo appearance in Pokemon Heroes, appearing in a textbook Annie and Oakley read in Jail.
- The Iron-Masked Marauder - Appeared in Pokémon 4Ever, he is possibly one of the only characters in the whole history of Pokémon who appears to be purely evil, Iron-Masked Marauder is known to be heartless, cruel, and above all he is egocentric. The Iron-Masked Marauder seemed to bent on capturing the voice of the forest, Celebi, and destroying the forest. What happened to The Iron-Masked Marauder after this movie, is unknown.
Recurring Characters
- Professor Samuel Oak / Professor Yukinari Okido - a Pokémon researcher. He is often considered the leading Pokémon expert, often giving lectures to Pokémon academies and hosting a radio show in Goldenrod City. Alongside his research, he is also authorized by the Pokémon League to give new trainers one of the three Kanto starter Pokémon: Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle. It was a special condition in which Ash obtained Pikachu from Professor Oak. (see Ash Ketchum article)
- Professor Felina Ivy / Dr. Uchikido - Professor Ivy is first heard of in the second season of the Pokémon Animé. Just after Ash Ketchum has competed in the Pokémon League, Professor Oak asks him to travel to the Orange Archipelago region and retrieve a strange Pokéball from local Pokémon expert Professor Ivy. Ash and his friends Misty and Brock make their way to Valencia Island and meet the Professor and her triplet assistants.
- Professor Elm / Professor Utsugi - a Pokémon researcher and was one of Professor Oak's students. He is authorized by the Pokémon League to give new trainers one of the three Johto starter Pokémon: Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile.
- Professor Birch / Professor Odamaki - a Pokémon researcher, known for his field work. He is authorized by the Pokémon League to give new trainers one of the three Hoenn starter Pokémon: Treecko, Torchic, and Mudkip.
- ??? / Professor Nanakamado - a Pokémon researcher. He is authorized by the Pokémon League to give new trainers one of the three Shin'ou starter Pokémon: Naetle, Hikozaru, and Pochama.
- ??? / Shinji - new rival of Ash in Diamond & Pearl.
- Officer Jenny / Junsā - A family of police officers (all of which are named Jenny) Like the various Nurse Joys, it is difficult to tell one Officer Jenny from another. Also like the Joys, Brock has no difficulty telling them apart. Notably in the Orange Islands, the Jennys are dressed differently from the ones in the other regions. The Japanese name, junsā, means "police officer".
- Nurse Joy / Jōi - a family of Pokémon nurses (all of which are named Joy, like Jenny.) Because of their identical appearance, it is often difficult to tell one Nurse Joy from another (with the exception of one tanned, muscular Joy in the Orange Islands, plus the Joys there are differently dressed from the ones in the other regions). Brock, however, has no difficulty telling them apart. This is most likely a homage to the games which used the same nurse sprite for each Pokémon Center the player visited. There is one Joy who is not a nurse, but instead an agent of the Pokémon Inspection Agency (responsible for certifying Gyms); she appears in an episode of Pokémon Chronicles. The Japanese name, jōi, is from joi which means "female doctor".
- Gary Oak / Shigeru - Longtime rival with the series main hero, Ash Ketchum. Stubborn, brash, and certainly anything but humble, Gary’s goal and ambition was to be number one at whatever he set his goal on. However, due to his brash and arrogant attitude, Gary Oak would often be met with failure in such big tournaments such as the Indigo Pokémon League, and The Johto Silver Conference. After losing to said rival Ash Ketchum, Gary Oak decided to pursue an active career in the footsteps of his grandfather, a Pokémon Professor.
- Richie / Hiroshi - After meeting in the Indigo Pokémon League tournament Ash and Richie soon became friends. With similarities glaringly obvious to Ash in appearance, Richie’s humble attitude and responsible demeanor set him aside from Ash. After a close, but heated match between the two at Indigo Stadium, Ash and Richie vowed to both become Pokémon Masters. The two cross paths again, and a couple of shows even focus on Richie himself as he too journeys to keep his promise to Ash of becoming a Pokémon Master.
- Delia Ketchum / Hanako - Said mother to the hero of the series. Delia Ketchum seems to more often than not play an active role in teaming with Professor Oak to make sure things are ok. Delia Ketchum is a kind gentle woman, however she often scolds Ash for his reckless behavior when he often puts himself in dangerous situations. Miss Ketchum herself has a Pokémon/house taker in the form of Mr. Mime. One of the running gags of the series (in the early episodes of the English dub only) involves Miss Ketchum reminding Ash to change his undergarments every time they speak.
- ??? / Ayako -
Voice Cast List
| Character Name | Voice Actor (Japanese) | Voice Actor (English) |
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| Satoshi / Ash Ketchum | Rica Matsumoto | Veronica Taylor (Seasons 1-8) Sarah Natochenny (Season 9+) |
| Kasumi / Misty | Mayumi Iizuka | Rachael Lillis (Seasons 1-8) Michelle Knotz (Season 9+) |
| Takeshi / Brock | Yuji Ueda | Eric Stuart (Episode 5 - Season 8) Bill Rogers (Season 9+) |
| Kenji / Tracey Sketchit | Tomokazu Seki | Ted Lewis (Episode 84 - Season 8) TBA (Season 9+) |
| Haruka / May | Midori Kawana (KAORI) | Veronica Taylor (Seasons 6-8) Michelle Knotz (Season 9) |
| Masato / Max | Fushigi Yamada | Amy Birnbaum (AG3 - Season 8) Kayzie Rogers (Season 9) |
| Hikari | Megumi Toyoguchi | |
| Pikachu | Ikue Otani | Ikue Otani |
| Togepi | Satomi Koorogi | Satomi Koorogi |
| Ōkido-Hakase / Professor Oak | Unshou Ishizuka | Stan Hart (Seasons 1-8) Jimmy Zoppi (Season 9+) |
| Hanako / Delia Ketchum | Masami Toyoshima | Veronica Taylor (Seasons 1-8) TBA (Season 9+) |
| Joi / Nurse Joy | Ayako Shiraishi | Megan Hollingshead (Seasons 1-6) Bella Hudson (Seasons 7-8) Diane Stillwell (Season 9+) |
| Junsa / Officer Jenny | Chinami Nishimura | Megan Hollingshead (Seasons 1-6) Bella Hudson (Seasons 7-8) Kayzie Rogers (Season 9+) |
| Shigeru / Gary Oak | Yuko Kobayashi | Jimmy Zoppi |
| Shū / Drew | Mitsuki Saiga | Pete Zarustica (Seasons 6-8) TBA (Seasons 9+) |
| Haarii / Harley | Junichi Kanemaru | Andrew Rannells (Season 8) TBA (Seasons 9+) |
| Musashi / Jessie | Megumi Hayashibara Akiko Hiramatsu (平松 晶子) (AG92) |
Rachael Lillis (Episode 2 - Season 8) Michelle Knotz (Season 9+) |
| Kojirō / James | Shinichiro Miki | Ted Lewis (Episodes 2 - 12) Eric Stuart (Episode 13 - Season 8) Jimmy Zoppi (Season 9+) |
| Nyarth / Meowth | Inuko Inuyama | Adam Sussman (Episodes 2-28) Maddie Blaustein (Episode 29 - Season 8) Jimmy Zoppi (Season 9+) |
| Narrator | Unshou Ishizuka | Ken Gates (Season 1 - AG20; Season 9+) Mike Pollock (AG21 - Season 8) |
| Sōnansu / Wobbuffet | Yūji Ueda | Kayzie Rogers |
Banned episodes
The Pokémon Anime has several episodes banned from Japan, the Western World, or the entire world. One episode in particular falls into the latter category: "Computer Soldier Porygon" (sometimes translated "Electric Soldier Porygon", lit. Dennō Senshi Porigon). Before the Pokémon series even debuted outside of Japan, the episode made headlines when it caused 685 children to experience seizures and seizure-like symptoms. Despite the offending scene in the episode being Pikachu's doing, Porygon (along with its evolution, Porygon2) has never been seen from again on the Anime. It is possible that Porygon2's new evolution, PorygonZ, may see the same fate as its previous forms because of this.
Game and Anime Differences
It is completely impossible in the Pokemon games for a Ground-type Pokemon to be effected (in any way) by an Electric-type attack, also Electric-types are weak against Ground-type attacks. There have been several times, however in the Pokemon Anime in which Ash's Pikachu has succeeded in attacking, hurting, and/or KOing Ground-type Pokemon with Electric-type attacks. A good example of this is when Ash's Pikachu KO'ed Brock's Onix (a Rock/Ground-type) with an electric attack, when Ash was trying to obtain the Boulder Badge.
It also happened at the begining of Pokémon: The First Movie, when Ash's Pikachu KO'ed a trainer's Golem (another Rock/Ground-type) along with two other Pokemon (at the same time), a Venomoth (a Bug/Poison-type) and a Pinsir (a Bug-type). This has caused a misconception among some fans of the anime who are unaware of the fact that (in the Pokemon games) Ground-types are immune to Electric-type attacks.
References
Broadcasters
External links
United States
Japan
- TV Tokyo Pokémon anime webpage
- TV Tokyo Diamond and pearl website
- Pokemon Japanese website
- TV Tokyo Pokémon AG anime webpage
- TV Tokyo Pokémon Diamond & Pearl anime webpage
See also
- Banned episodes of Pokémon
- Pokémon Media and Release Information
- List of Pokémon episodes
- List of Pokémon Original Series episodes
- List of Pokémon Advanced Generation episodes
- List of Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl episodes
- List of Pokémon special episodes
- List of Pokémon characters
- Pokémon Chronicles
- List of television shows based on video games
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