Pokémon
Till We Compete Again!
TV Flash files “Till We Compete Again!” as the last listed hour of season 19 — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 19, episode 47, aired 2017-01-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S19E47: listed hour 938 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, last listed hour of season 19. It aired 2017-01-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Facing the Needs of the Many!” (S19E46). Next is “Alola to New Adventure!” (S20E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The time has come. Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie are going their separate ways after their journey through the Kalos region. Promising to meet again one day, as they go to board their flights, Dedenne runs away. As it is young, it doesn't want to say goodbye. Can Bonnie find Dedenne in time? In the interim, Clemont challenges Ash to one final battle to bring their journey full circle. Who will win?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Till We Compete Again! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S19E47 is listed hour 938 of 1220 — last listed hour of season 19, season 19 episode 47.
When did Pokémon S19E47 air?
Till We Compete Again! aired 2017-01-21 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…