Pokémon
There's a New Gym Leader in Town!
TV Flash files “There's a New Gym Leader in Town!” as hour 767 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 16, episode 14, aired 2013-05-04, 22 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S16E14: listed hour 767 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 14 of 45 in season 16. It aired 2013-05-04 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Name's N!” (S16E13). Next is “Team Plasma's Pokémon Power Plot!” (S16E15). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Having arrived in Aspertia City, Ash & co. find out a new gym has recently opened up there with a new Gym Leader, Cheren. With the Gym behind the trainer school, Ash & Co. help Cheren out with teaching the various kids there. However, when Axew gets lost, its cries for help spook the other Pokémon in the school and they run off. It's up to Cilan to find them. Meanwhile, Ash and Cheren decide to battle. Will Ash manage to defeat the new Gym Leader?
Viewer FAQ
Where does There's a New Gym Leader in Town! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S16E14 is listed hour 767 of 1220 — hour 14 of 45 in season 16, season 16 episode 14.
When did Pokémon S16E14 air?
There's a New Gym Leader in Town! aired 2013-05-04 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…