Pokémon
Battling the Generation Gap!
TV Flash files “Battling the Generation Gap!” as hour 561 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 11, episode 43, aired 2009-02-21, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S11E43: listed hour 561 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 43 of 52 in season 11. It aired 2009-02-21 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Doc Brock!” (S11E42). Next is “Losing Its Lustrous!” (S11E44). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Finally in Celestic Town, Dawn & co. arrive just in time for the Pokémon Contest. When they go to enter, Dawn finds out that a rival of her mother's is entering in the contest. With a seasoned co-ordinator as one of her opponents, Dawn could be facing the hardest contest of her career so far. Will she win?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Battling the Generation Gap! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S11E43 is listed hour 561 of 1220 — hour 43 of 52 in season 11, season 11 episode 43.
When did Pokémon S11E43 air?
Battling the Generation Gap! aired 2009-02-21 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…
Filed against
- 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…