Pokémon
Home is Where the Start Is!
TV Flash files “Home is Where the Start Is!” as the last listed hour of season 9 — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 9, episode 47, aired 2007-03-03, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E47: listed hour 467 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, last listed hour of season 9. It aired 2007-03-03 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Once More with Reeling!” (S09E46). Next is “Following a Maiden's Voyage!” (S10E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After the climatic end to their contest battle. Ash, May, Brock & Max all go their seperate ways and go home. On his way back to Pallet Town, Ash meets up with his old rival who has returned home from Shinou on a visit. Ash is eager to challenge Gary and see the new Pokémon that he has seen and thus they battle. Pikachu VS Electabuzz's new evolution, Elekible. Who will win?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Home is Where the Start Is! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S09E47 is listed hour 467 of 1220 — last listed hour of season 9, season 9 episode 47.
When did Pokémon S09E47 air?
Home is Where the Start Is! aired 2007-03-03 and is listed at 22 minutes.
Do I need the games first?
The TV series is one engine with the games and cards, not a homework prerequisite. U.S. breakthrough is 1998 anime syndication as childhood OS.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, and a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Anime lands in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards — catch, train, argue about types. Kids’ TV as collection ritual, gym-badge serialization, and the rare cartoon that still prints money because the adventure never quite finishes.
The work, first: a young trainer, a yellow mouse, a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Based on Game Freak/Nintendo games, the anime's U.S. TV breakthrough in 1998 (Kids' WB and syndication) detonated a multi-platform kids' empire: games, cards, films, toys, one engine. Satoshi Tajiri and Kunihiko Yuyama's world turned anime into mainstream American children's programming. Rica Matsumoto and Veronica Taylor as Ash across languages; Ikue Otani's Pikachu. Catch, train, argue about…
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- Rica Matsumoto as Ash Ketchum (JP)
Rica Matsumoto voices Ash Ketchum on Pokémon — the ten-year-old whose globetrotting checklist became a childhood operating system in Japanese, then a syndication engine abroad. Catch, train, argue about types. TV Flash files her as 1990s…
- Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum (US early)
Veronica Taylor was early U.S. Ash Ketchum on Pokémon — a ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Anime landed in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards:…
- Ikue Otani as Pikachu
Ikue Otani voiced Pikachu as a childhood operating system — a ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, anime landing in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards. Catch, train, argue about types. TV Flash files her as 1990s kids-TV…