Pokémon
These Could be the Starts of Something Big!
TV Flash files “These Could be the Starts of Something Big!” as a desk essential hour — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 25, episode 46, aired 2022-12-16, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S25E46: listed hour 1220 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, last listed hour of season 25. It aired 2022-12-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Heroes Unite!” (S25E45). No later hour is listed in this guide. Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “These Could be the Starts of Something Big!”. These Could Be the Starts of Something Big: mega-run latest — Pallet logic still the start, on purpose.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Following their Raid Battle with Lugia, Satoshi and Go go their separate ways and embark on their new journeys.
Viewer FAQ
Where does These Could be the Starts of Something Big! sit in the Pokémon guide?
S25E46 is listed hour 1220 of 1220 — last listed hour of season 25, season 25 episode 46.
When did Pokémon S25E46 air?
These Could be the Starts of Something Big! aired 2022-12-16 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…