Pokémon
Finding a Legend!
TV Flash files “Finding a Legend!” as hour 1093 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 23, episode 9, aired 2020-01-19, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E09: listed hour 1093 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 9 of 48 in season 23. It aired 2020-01-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Sinnoh Iceberg Race!” (S23E08). Next is “A Test in Paradise!” (S23E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash & Go have heard that the Legendary Pokémon, Ho-Oh, has been sighted in Ecruteak City in Johto so head straight to Johto to find it. When there, they see a Pokémon that resembles Ho-Oh instantly but soon learn it's a fake. They discover a local boy disguised one of his Pokémon as Ho-Oh to show his grandfather the Pokémon. However, with his plan failing, he hopes to find the real Ho-Oh. Will he succeed?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Finding a Legend! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S23E09 is listed hour 1093 of 1220 — hour 9 of 48 in season 23, season 23 episode 9.
When did Pokémon S23E09 air?
Finding a Legend! aired 2020-01-19 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…