Pokémon
New Places... Familiar Faces!
TV Flash files “New Places... Familiar Faces!” as hour 765 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 16, episode 12, aired 2013-04-20, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S16E12: listed hour 765 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 12 of 45 in season 16. It aired 2013-04-20 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “A Unova League Evolution!” (S16E11). Next is “The Name's N!” (S16E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After placing in the Top 8 in the Unova League, Ash & Co. decide to return to Professor Juniper's laboratory Nuvema Town. On the way, they meet with a girl who is just starting on her journey, and decide to help After discussing with Professors Oak & Juniper, Ash decides that he should return to Kanto before decidign where to travel to next. However, soon after that, the trainer they met enters and picks her first Pokémon. To get to grips with training Pokémon, she participates in a tag battle with Ash against Iris & Cilan. However, the battle gets interrupted by Team Rocket, who have returned to Unova...
Viewer FAQ
Where does New Places... Familiar Faces! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S16E12 is listed hour 765 of 1220 — hour 12 of 45 in season 16, season 16 episode 12.
When did Pokémon S16E12 air?
New Places... Familiar Faces! aired 2013-04-20 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…