Pokémon
Thank You, Alola! The Journey Continues!
TV Flash files “Thank You, Alola! The Journey Continues!” as the last listed hour of season 22 — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 22, episode 54, aired 2019-11-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S22E54: listed hour 1084 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, last listed hour of season 22. It aired 2019-11-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Dreaming of the Sun and Moon!” (S22E53). Next is “Enter Pikachu!” (S23E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash has made a decision to return to Kanto with a new goal of travelling more of the world to face stronger trainers. However, he has been struggling to tell everyone at the Pokémon school, but as he is trying to work out how to do it, Solgaleo appears in front of him. In addition to that, Team Rocket have received new orders to return to Kanto and Lillie & Gladion decide to go searching for their father. It is time to say goodbye.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Thank You, Alola! The Journey Continues! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S22E54 is listed hour 1084 of 1220 — last listed hour of season 22, season 22 episode 54.
When did Pokémon S22E54 air?
Thank You, Alola! The Journey Continues! aired 2019-11-03 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…