Pokémon
The Future is Now, Thanks to Determination!
TV Flash files “The Future is Now, Thanks to Determination!” as hour 860 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 18, episode 14, aired 2015-05-09, 22 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E14: listed hour 860 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 14 of 45 in season 18. It aired 2015-05-09 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “An Oasis of Hope!” (S18E13). Next is “A Fork in the Road! A Parting of the Ways!” (S18E15). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Heading back towards Lumiose City, Ash and co reach the Kalos Power Plant and decide to go and visit it. When they approach, Pikachu, Luxio and Dedenne start acting strangely and head towards the plant. When they reach it they learn that Team Rocket have got a plot in the Power Plant where they are taking control of Electric-type Pokémon. Will Ash & Co. manage to stop Team Rocket and rescue the Electric-type Pokémon?
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Future is Now, Thanks to Determination! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S18E14 is listed hour 860 of 1220 — hour 14 of 45 in season 18, season 18 episode 14.
When did Pokémon S18E14 air?
The Future is Now, Thanks to Determination! aired 2015-05-09 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…