Pokémon
Setting the World on Its Buneary!
TV Flash files “Setting the World on Its Buneary!” as hour 476 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 10, episode 9, aired 2007-06-18, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S10E09: listed hour 476 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 9 of 51 in season 10. It aired 2007-06-18 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Gymbaliar!” (S10E08). Next is “Not on MY Watch Ya Don't!” (S10E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
On their way to the next city, Ash & Co. come across another Wild Buneary, of whom has a crush on Pikachu. Dawn, eager to finally catch one, attempts to battle it and fails. However, Team Rocket are nearby and have their eyes on Buneary. Can Dawn protect it?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Setting the World on Its Buneary! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S10E09 is listed hour 476 of 1220 — hour 9 of 51 in season 10, season 10 episode 9.
When did Pokémon S10E09 air?
Setting the World on Its Buneary! aired 2007-06-18 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…