Pokémon
Mission: Defeat Your Rival!
TV Flash files “Mission: Defeat Your Rival!” as hour 760 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 16, episode 7, aired 2013-03-16, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S16E07: listed hour 760 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 7 of 45 in season 16. It aired 2013-03-16 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Curtain Up, Unova League!” (S16E06). Next is “Lost at the League!” (S16E08). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The preliminaries of the Unova League continue and the battle between Ash and Trip is unbelievably tense. With Serperior constantly evading Pikachu's attacks, Ash soon finds that he may be out of the tournament earlier than he thought. Will Ash manage to get through Serperior's defences and win? In the other side of the Unova League, Kotetsu and Bianca start a battle. Using Samurott against Escavalier, the battle gets even more tense than before when Samurott's attacks seem to do no damage on Escavalier. Who will win the battles and get through to the finals?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mission: Defeat Your Rival! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S16E07 is listed hour 760 of 1220 — hour 7 of 45 in season 16, season 16 episode 7.
When did Pokémon S16E07 air?
Mission: Defeat Your Rival! aired 2013-03-16 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…