Pokémon
Alola, Kanto!
TV Flash files “Alola, Kanto!” as hour 980 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 20, episode 42, aired 2017-09-14, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S20E42: listed hour 980 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 42 of 43 in season 20. It aired 2017-09-14 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Mounting an Electrifying Charge!” (S20E41). Next is “When Regions Collide!” (S20E43). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
As part of an extra curricular class, the group travel to Kanto. When there, Ash meets up with his old friends Brock and Misty. Then, when takingthem through Oak's Laboratory to meet his old Pokémon, the group gets losts. To make matters worse, Team Rocket have also returned to Kanto briefly and have their eyes set on the Pokémon in the laboratory once again. Will they succeed?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Alola, Kanto! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S20E42 is listed hour 980 of 1220 — hour 42 of 43 in season 20, season 20 episode 42.
When did Pokémon S20E42 air?
Alola, Kanto! aired 2017-09-14 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…