Pokémon
A Real Icebreaker!
TV Flash files “A Real Icebreaker!” as hour 920 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 19, episode 29, aired 2016-09-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S19E29: listed hour 920 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 29 of 47 in season 19. It aired 2016-09-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Seeing the Forest for the Trees!” (S19E28). Next is “A Diamond in the Rough!” (S19E30). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Having finally mastered Synchro with Greninja, it's time for Ash to have a rematch with Wulfric and earn his final Kalos Badge. Changing things up, Ash manages to get through until Wulfric shows a strategy he didn't see last time, with his Abomasnow Mega Evolving into Mega Abomasnow. With Abomasnow getting even more powerful, Ash faces an even bigger challenge than before. Will he and Greninja manage to push through and win his final badge?
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Real Icebreaker! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S19E29 is listed hour 920 of 1220 — hour 29 of 47 in season 19, season 19 episode 29.
When did Pokémon S19E29 air?
A Real Icebreaker! aired 2016-09-03 and is listed at 30 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…