Pokémon
Fairy-Type Trickery!
TV Flash files “Fairy-Type Trickery!” as hour 872 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 18, episode 26, aired 2015-08-01, 22 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E26: listed hour 872 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 26 of 45 in season 18. It aired 2015-08-01 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “A Fashionable Battle!” (S18E25). Next is “Rivals: Today and Tomorrow!” (S18E27). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
It's time for Ash's 6th gym battle in the Kalos region. Ash is excited to battle for the badge but Valerie has got a tricky fighting style using her Fairy-type Pokémon. As Ash hasn't come in with a particular strategy to defeat this new type of Pokémon, the battle will be fierce indeed. Facing off with his Fletchinder against Sylveon and Spritzee, Ash faces his toughest challenge so far in Kalos. Will Ash manage to win?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Fairy-Type Trickery! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S18E26 is listed hour 872 of 1220 — hour 26 of 45 in season 18, season 18 episode 26.
When did Pokémon S18E26 air?
Fairy-Type Trickery! aired 2015-08-01 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…