Pokémon
Mystery on a Deserted Island!
TV Flash files “Mystery on a Deserted Island!” as hour 791 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 16, episode 38, aired 2013-10-19, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S16E38: listed hour 791 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 38 of 45 in season 16. It aired 2013-10-19 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Journalist from Another Region!” (S16E37). Next is “A Pokémon of a Different Color!” (S16E39). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Heading to the next island, Alexa informs Ash & Co. that there are rumours of a hidden treasure on a nearby uninhabited island. Ash & co. decide to investigate this to try and find the treasure, helping Alexa to solve the mystery she learned when doing a report years before. However, Team Rocket have heard about the treasure as well and head there, and to top it off, the wild Pokémon on the island are intent on protecting it. Will Ash & Co. find it?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mystery on a Deserted Island! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S16E38 is listed hour 791 of 1220 — hour 38 of 45 in season 16, season 16 episode 38.
When did Pokémon S16E38 air?
Mystery on a Deserted Island! aired 2013-10-19 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…