Pokémon
Under the Pledging Tree!
TV Flash files “Under the Pledging Tree!” as hour 857 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 18, episode 11, aired 2015-04-18, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E11: listed hour 857 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 11 of 45 in season 18. It aired 2015-04-18 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Green, Green Grass Types of Home!” (S18E10). Next is “A Showcase Debut!” (S18E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
It's time for the annual festival in Coumarine City. After learning of the festival and how the exchange of present to your Pokémon under the vow tree causes your bond with your Pokémon to grow, Ash & Serena decide to go shopping. This is the first time Ash and Serena have been completely alone, without their Pokémon or their travelling partners, so Serena thinks it is akin to a date and starts getting overjoyed...
Viewer FAQ
Where does Under the Pledging Tree! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S18E11 is listed hour 857 of 1220 — hour 11 of 45 in season 18, season 18 episode 11.
When did Pokémon S18E11 air?
Under the Pledging Tree! aired 2015-04-18 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…