Pokémon
Alola to New Adventure!
TV Flash files “Alola to New Adventure!” as the first listed hour of season 20 — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 20, episode 1, aired 2016-11-17, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E01: listed hour 939 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, first listed hour of season 20. It aired 2016-11-17 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Till We Compete Again!” (S19E47). Next is “The Guardian's Challenge!” (S20E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash, his mother, and Pikachu arrive in the Alola region on vacation to deliver a Pokémon egg to Professor Oak's cousin, Samson Oak. While exploring for new Pokémon, Ash stumbles upon a Pokémon school that Samson runs as its principal. While helping to defend the school from a group of Team Skull grunts, Ash witnesses one of the students, Kiawe, perform a powerful Z-Move with his Pokémon to drive the grunts away. Impressed, Ash decides to enroll in the school to learn more about its native Pokémon. The night before Ash's mother returns home to the Kanto region, the guardian Pokémon, Tapu Koko, appears before Ash and gives him a Z-Ring that enables him to perform his own Z-Moves.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Alola to New Adventure! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S20E01 is listed hour 939 of 1220 — first listed hour of season 20, season 20 episode 1.
When did Pokémon S20E01 air?
Alola to New Adventure! aired 2016-11-17 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…