Pokémon
The Cave of Mirrors!
TV Flash files “The Cave of Mirrors!” as hour 834 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 17, episode 36, aired 2014-09-27, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S17E36: listed hour 834 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 36 of 48 in season 17. It aired 2014-09-27 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Battles in the Sky!” (S17E35). Next is “Forging Forest Friendships!” (S17E37). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Traversing through Reflection Cave, Ash & co. are checking out the marvels of the cave's reflective structure when Pikachu is taken from Ash by a strange version of Ash. Ash instinctively follows his doppelganger and ends up in a mirror world, where Serena is determined, Clemont is athletic and Bonnie is very "lady-like", all the opposite of the friends he knows. Will Ash be able to find Pikachu and return to his world?
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Cave of Mirrors! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S17E36 is listed hour 834 of 1220 — hour 36 of 48 in season 17, season 17 episode 36.
When did Pokémon S17E36 air?
The Cave of Mirrors! aired 2014-09-27 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…