Pokémon
Tasting the Bitter with the Sweet!
TV Flash files “Tasting the Bitter with the Sweet!” as hour 997 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 21, episode 16, aired 2018-01-25, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S21E16: listed hour 997 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 16 of 49 in season 21. It aired 2018-01-25 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Fighting Back the Tears!” (S21E15). Next is “Getting a Jump on the Competition!” (S21E17). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Lana's sisters return from the forest, with a tale that they were saved by a large mysterious Pokémon. This brings memories back to Lana and Mallow of a time they were stuck in the forest and the Pokémon helped them. Thinking it was the same Pokémon, they go to the forest to thank it. Will they be able to find it?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Tasting the Bitter with the Sweet! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S21E16 is listed hour 997 of 1220 — hour 16 of 49 in season 21, season 21 episode 16.
When did Pokémon S21E16 air?
Tasting the Bitter with the Sweet! aired 2018-01-25 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…