Pokémon
Searching for a Wish!
TV Flash files “Searching for a Wish!” as hour 788 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 16, episode 35, aired 2013-09-28, 22 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S16E35: listed hour 788 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 35 of 45 in season 16. It aired 2013-09-28 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Path That Leads to Goodbye!” (S16E34). Next is “Capacia Island UFO!” (S16E36). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Continuing their travel across Big Island, Ash & Co. become witness to a rare event, the 1,000 year awakening of the Pokémon Jirachi, who only wakes for seven days. As Pikachu and Axew play with Jirachi, Ash decides to introduce itself but Jirachi, scared of humans, backs away and leaves. Ash is disheartened by this but soon meets a girl who is looking for Jirachi to make her wish to make the land fertile come true. Ash & Co. decide to help her with this but struggle to find Jirachi in the seven days it's awake. However, the moment they do, Team Rocket appears and attacks. Will Team Rocket manage to get the weakened Jirachi, or will the wish be granted?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Searching for a Wish! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S16E35 is listed hour 788 of 1220 — hour 35 of 45 in season 16, season 16 episode 35.
When did Pokémon S16E35 air?
Searching for a Wish! aired 2013-09-28 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…