Pokémon
A Fork in the Road! A Parting of the Ways!
TV Flash files “A Fork in the Road! A Parting of the Ways!” as hour 861 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 18, episode 15, aired 2015-05-16, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E15: listed hour 861 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 15 of 45 in season 18. It aired 2015-05-16 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Future is Now, Thanks to Determination!” (S18E14). Next is “Battling with Elegance and a Big Smile!” (S18E16). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After another failed attempt at getting Pikachu from Ash & co., Team Rocket end up getting separated. Jessie and Wobbuffet end up in a river and almost drown until she is saved by a mysterious doctor called White. Jessie and Wobbuffet quickly become enamoured with White and his Wobbuffet, causing Jessie to start to think whether or not she should quit Team Rocket and spend her life with White. Will she stay with Team Rocket or will she take the jump?
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Fork in the Road! A Parting of the Ways! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S18E15 is listed hour 861 of 1220 — hour 15 of 45 in season 18, season 18 episode 15.
When did Pokémon S18E15 air?
A Fork in the Road! A Parting of the Ways! aired 2015-05-16 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…