Pokémon
Battling Authority Once Again!
TV Flash files “Battling Authority Once Again!” as hour 747 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 15, episode 43, aired 2012-12-08, 22 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S15E43: listed hour 747 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 43 of 49 in season 15. It aired 2012-12-08 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Jostling for the Junior Cup!” (S15E42). Next is “Ash, Iris and Trip: Then There Were Three!” (S15E44). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After getting through the first round of the Junior Cup, the second round begins for Ash, Dawn, Iris, Cilan and Trip. However, in the match ups, Dawn and Iris get paired together. Iris is still confident in the strength of her new Dragonite and uses it against Dawn's Mamoswine. However, Dragonite continues to do what it decides to do, and not what Iris wants. In addition to that, Trip and Cilan get teamed up. Eager to make up for the defeat at the hands of Cilan in the Club Battle, and to battle Alder, Trip is intent on winning...
Viewer FAQ
Where does Battling Authority Once Again! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S15E43 is listed hour 747 of 1220 — hour 43 of 49 in season 15, season 15 episode 43.
When did Pokémon S15E43 air?
Battling Authority Once Again! aired 2012-12-08 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…