Pokémon
Commanding the Clubsplosion Crown!
TV Flash files “Commanding the Clubsplosion Crown!” as hour 729 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 15, episode 25, aired 2012-08-04, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S15E25: listed hour 729 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 25 of 49 in season 15. It aired 2012-08-04 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “A Clubsplosion of Excitement!” (S15E24). Next is “Battling the Leaf Thieves!” (S15E26). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
It's time for the end of the Donamite tournament and the Semi-Finals begin. With Ash, Bianca, Stephan and the reigning champion all in it, battles are sure to be fierce. Bianca and her Emboar have to face Stephan's Sawk while Ash & Scraggy are facing the chamion and his Throh. Who will emerge triumphant and the overall winner of the tournament?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Commanding the Clubsplosion Crown! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S15E25 is listed hour 729 of 1220 — hour 25 of 49 in season 15, season 15 episode 25.
When did Pokémon S15E25 air?
Commanding the Clubsplosion Crown! aired 2012-08-04 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…