Pokémon
A Blustery Santalune Gym Battle!
TV Flash files “A Blustery Santalune Gym Battle!” as hour 803 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 17, episode 5, aired 2014-02-15, 22 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S17E05: listed hour 803 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 5 of 48 in season 17. It aired 2014-02-15 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “A Shockingly Cheeky Friendship!” (S17E04). Next is “Battling on Thin Ice!” (S17E06). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Finally arriving in Santalune City, Ash decides to rush to the Gym to battle Alexa's sister, Viola. When they arrive at the gym, they meet Alexa who introduces them to her sister. Ash is eager and immediately challenges her. Learning she's a Bug-type trainer, Ash ends up with a bigger challenge than he had thought when her Surskit freezes the battleground, causing Pikachu to stumble. Will Ash manage to win?
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Blustery Santalune Gym Battle! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S17E05 is listed hour 803 of 1220 — hour 5 of 48 in season 17, season 17 episode 5.
When did Pokémon S17E05 air?
A Blustery Santalune Gym Battle! aired 2014-02-15 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…