Pokémon
Flash of the Titans!
TV Flash files “Flash of the Titans!” as hour 1096 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 23, episode 12, aired 2020-02-09, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S23E12: listed hour 1096 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 12 of 48 in season 23. It aired 2020-02-09 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Best Friend…Worst Nightmare!” (S23E11). Next is “The Climb to Be the Very Best!” (S23E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash & Go have gone back to Galar to watch the finals of the Pokémon World Championships, a competition that determines who is the best at Pokémon battles in the year. In the finals, Lance from Kanto and Leon from Galar face off. Ash & Go are excited waiting for the battle showcasing the Dynamax phenomenon. The battle is against the Red Gyarados Lance caught in Johto and Leon's Gigantamax Charizard. Who will win?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Flash of the Titans! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S23E12 is listed hour 1096 of 1220 — hour 12 of 48 in season 23, season 23 episode 12.
When did Pokémon S23E12 air?
Flash of the Titans! aired 2020-02-09 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…