Pokémon
Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige!
TV Flash files “Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige!” as the first listed hour of season 16 — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 16, episode 1, aired 2013-02-02, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S16E01: listed hour 754 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, first listed hour of season 16. It aired 2013-02-02 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Unova's Survival Crisis!” (S15E49). Next is “A Surface to Air Tag Battle Team!” (S16E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Having left Undella Town to head to the Unova League, Ash & Co. bump into a few trainers, known as the Flower Garden Operette Troupe. However, during the meeting, Snivy and Emolga end up trying to break up a fight and crash into one of the trainers, causing the trainer to insult them. Iris gets angered and intends to teach the trainers a lesson. However, the place they live is girls only so she needs to sneak Ash and Cilan in...
Viewer FAQ
Where does Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S16E01 is listed hour 754 of 1220 — first listed hour of season 16, season 16 episode 1.
When did Pokémon S16E01 air?
Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige! aired 2013-02-02 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…