Pokémon
Confronting the Darkness!
TV Flash files “Confronting the Darkness!” as hour 864 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 18, episode 18, aired 2015-06-06, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E18: listed hour 864 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 18 of 45 in season 18. It aired 2015-06-06 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Good Friends, Great Training!” (S18E17). Next is “The Moment of Lumiose Truth!” (S18E19). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Finally back in Lumiose City, Ash, Serena and Bonnie meet up with Clemont once again. Ash and Clemont are eager to start their gym match, but as it begins, Officer Jenny arrives to arrest the Clembot. It seems a robot looking just like Clembot is being used around the city to commit crimes. Insisting on Clembot's innocence, it's up to Ash & co. to investigate and clear Clembot of all crimes. Can they do it?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Confronting the Darkness! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S18E18 is listed hour 864 of 1220 — hour 18 of 45 in season 18, season 18 episode 18.
When did Pokémon S18E18 air?
Confronting the Darkness! aired 2015-06-06 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…