Pokémon
Rocking Kalos Defenses!
TV Flash files “Rocking Kalos Defenses!” as hour 933 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 19, episode 42, aired 2016-12-10, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S19E42: listed hour 933 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 42 of 47 in season 19. It aired 2016-12-10 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Right Hero for the Right Job!” (S19E41). Next is “Forming a More Perfect Union!” (S19E43). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Bonnie and Clemont have managed to stop the Zygarde rampage, and the Lumiose City Gym is liberated, but as the gang regroups to think the incident is over, the Megalith that Lysandre, Alain and Steven recovered in Hoenn starts to transform, and it even absorbs Mairin's Chespin. The Megalith soon starts to head off somewhere. Will Ash & Co. be able to stop it?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Rocking Kalos Defenses! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S19E42 is listed hour 933 of 1220 — hour 42 of 47 in season 19, season 19 episode 42.
When did Pokémon S19E42 air?
Rocking Kalos Defenses! aired 2016-12-10 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…