Pokémon
Lillier and the Staff!
TV Flash files “Lillier and the Staff!” as the first listed hour of season 22 — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 22, episode 1, aired 2018-10-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S22E01: listed hour 1031 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, first listed hour of season 22. It aired 2018-10-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Turning the Other Mask!” (S21E49). Next is “A Haunted House for Everything!” (S22E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Pokémon School is putting on a play and so the group and all their Pokémon are participating. However, everyone's family has been invited, including Ash's mother, which makes the group nervous. To make things worse, Team Rocket find the script to the play and barge in. Will the play work out?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Lillier and the Staff! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S22E01 is listed hour 1031 of 1220 — first listed hour of season 22, season 22 episode 1.
When did Pokémon S22E01 air?
Lillier and the Staff! aired 2018-10-21 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…