Pokémon
Toying With Your Motions!
TV Flash files “Toying With Your Motions!” as hour 1214 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 25, episode 40, aired 2022-10-28, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S25E40: listed hour 1214 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 40 of 46 in season 25. It aired 2022-10-28 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Flood of Torrential Gains!” (S25E39). Next is “Paring Pokémon While Parrying!” (S25E41). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Satoshi and Dande continue their battle, with Satoshi's Mega Lucario defeating Barrikohru. As the battle goes on, Dande's strategy begins to tease Satoshi. After Mega Lucario is knocked out by Drapult, Kairyu avenges its teammate by finishing off Drapult with a Draco Meteor, giving Satoshi a 3–2 lead. For his next Pokémon, Dande brings out his Gorirander.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Toying With Your Motions! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S25E40 is listed hour 1214 of 1220 — hour 40 of 46 in season 25, season 25 episode 40.
When did Pokémon S25E40 air?
Toying With Your Motions! aired 2022-10-28 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…