Pokémon
Battle for the Underground!
TV Flash files “Battle for the Underground!” as the last listed hour of season 14 — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 14, episode 48, aired 2012-01-07, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S14E48: listed hour 704 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, last listed hour of season 14. It aired 2012-01-07 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Crisis from the Underground Up!” (S14E47). Next is “Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader!” (S15E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With the subway going awry, Ash & Co have met up with the Subway Masters Emmet & Ingo who are helping them to get to the trains with their Pokémon on. However, things are not as easy as it seems as Meowth has betrayed them and the train is getting further and further away, with Nimbasa City cut off from the rest of Unova. Will Ash & Co. manage to get their Pokémon back?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Battle for the Underground! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S14E48 is listed hour 704 of 1220 — last listed hour of season 14, season 14 episode 48.
When did Pokémon S14E48 air?
Battle for the Underground! aired 2012-01-07 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…