Pokémon
Awakening the Sleeping Giant!
TV Flash files “Awakening the Sleeping Giant!” as hour 816 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 17, episode 18, aired 2014-05-17, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S17E18: listed hour 816 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 18 of 48 in season 17. It aired 2014-05-17 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!” (S17E17). Next is “A Conspiracy to Conquer!” (S17E19). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Arriving in Camphier Town, Ash & Co. soon discover a wild Snorlax asleep in the middle of town, snoring and thus causing issues to everyone in town. In order to wake the Snorlax, they need to find King Shabboneau and have him play the PokéFlute. However, the PokéFlute has been taken by the princess of Parfum Palace and she refuses. When Ash and co finally meet her to get the PokéFlute back, she finally agrees but on a condition; a battle, and the battle has a very high price... Will Ash manage to beat the princess?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Awakening the Sleeping Giant! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S17E18 is listed hour 816 of 1220 — hour 18 of 48 in season 17, season 17 episode 18.
When did Pokémon S17E18 air?
Awakening the Sleeping Giant! aired 2014-05-17 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…