Pokémon
Loading the Dex!
TV Flash files “Loading the Dex!” as hour 941 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 20, episode 3, aired 2016-11-24, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E03: listed hour 941 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 3 of 43 in season 20. It aired 2016-11-24 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Guardian's Challenge!” (S20E02). Next is “First Catch in Alola, Ketchum-Style!” (S20E04). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Professor Kukui gives Satoshi an intelligent Rotom Pokédex that is capable of human speech. Satoshi goes to find and catch his first Pokémon in Alola, but he instead encounters Rocket-Dan, who are aided by a wild Mimikkyu that despises Pikachu.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Loading the Dex! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S20E03 is listed hour 941 of 1220 — hour 3 of 43 in season 20, season 20 episode 3.
When did Pokémon S20E03 air?
Loading the Dex! aired 2016-11-24 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…