Main article: Pokémon Chronicles
Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station (週間ポケモン放送局, Shūkan Pokemon Hōsōkyoku?) was a closely
related spin-off series that aired with the beginning part of Pokémon: Advanced
Generation. The show was presented as an animated variety show, and showed clip
shows, reruns of Pokémon episodes, television airings of the Pokémon movies,
cast interviews, and live action footage, in addition to the previously
mentioned Pokémon Side Story episodes. The show ran from October 15, 2002 to
September 28, 2004, when it was replaced by Pokémon Sunday.
Pokémon Sunday
Pokémon
Sunday (ポケモン☆サンデー, Pokemon Sandē?) debuted on TV Tokyo on
October 3, 2004. The show is the successor to the Pocket Monsters Encore and
the Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station. Like the shows before it, Pokémon
Sunday is a sort of variety which featuring reruns of old episodes as well as a
number of 'Research' episodes involving live-action elements.
Pokémon Smash!
Pokémon
Smash! (ポケモンスマッシュ！, Pokemon Sumasshu!?) is the successor to the
Pokémon Sunday series. It debuted on TV Tokyo on October 3, 2010. Like its
predecessors, Pokémon Smash! is a variety show that features live-action
segments and reruns of old anime episodes. The theme song is "Endless
Fighters" by AAA.
Airing and production
The
English adaptation of the series was produced by 4Kids Entertainment and video
distribution of the series was handled by Viz Media and Pioneer Entertainment
for the TV series, Warner Bros. and Nintendo for the first three movies, the
thirteenth movie, and the first television special, Miramax Films, and Buena
Vista Home Entertainment for the fourth movie through the seventh, Viz Media
for movies eight to ten, and Universal Studios for the eleventh and twelfth
films. The series and all feature films are directed by Kunihiko Yuyama, with
English adaptations originally written by Norman J. Grossfeld and Michael
Haigney for the first eight seasons. However, starting with the ninth season,
The Pokémon Company International (operating as Pokémon USA at that time,) and
TAJ Productions, who worked with 4Kids on the show before taking leave after
Season 5, replaced 4Kids as the show's non-Japanese producers and distributors.
Most of the original voice cast was also replaced by TAJ for budget purposes,
causing controversy among fans who admired the original voice actors. When TAJ
closed their doors, they were replaced by DuArt Film and Video for the tenth
movie and Season 11 of the anime series onward. In Canada, Pokémon first aired
and has been airing on YTV since late 1998. YTV has been airing Pokémon longer
than any other English network and is Subsequently YTV's longest running show.
In the UK, Pokémon first aired on Sky1, then it was followed by airings on GMTV
and CITV in the summer of 1999 including their Saturday morning show SMTV Live
and proved to be extraordinarily popular, to the point were segments and
sketches of the show itself were based around Pokémon (e.g. the Pokérap). As
part of their relaunching of their internet site, the full first season of the
anime is being shown on the Pokemon.com web site in the USA.
The show
(as of September 23rd, 2010 in Japan) has premiered the "rebooted"
series, Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! on TV Tokyo Thursday nights at 7:30 PM
JST. The metaseries had been airing on Tuesday nights in the earlier seasons.
In the United States (as of February 12, 2011) the series is airing its first
season of Black & White, with episodes premiering Saturday mornings at 9 AM
ET/PT. An English version of Pokémon Side Story has now been made, titled
Pokémon Chronicles which premiered in the UK on Toonami on May 11, 2005 at 4:30
p.m. BST, and is currently airing the 13th season on YTV in Canada. Each season
also brings forth a Pokémon feature-length film, and each film up until the
seventh is preceded by a Pokémon animated short. Pokémon CDs have been released
in conjunction with the anime. The tracks feature songs that have been shown in
the English dubbed version of the anime. However, some CDs have been released
to promote and profit the anime.
Pokémon
Diamond and Pearl began airing in Japan on September 28, 2006 with a
three-episode arc introducing the new series' main female character Dawn (known
in Japan as Hikari), based on the playable female player in the Diamond and
Pearl games. The new series aired with a sneak preview on April 20, 2007 in the
USA. The sneak preview aired on May 5 in Canada. A dubbed version of the
90-minute preview done in Japan, Diamond and Pearl takes place in the Sinnoh
region, based on the new Diamond and Pearl games. The new series aired in prime
time on Cartoon Network starting June 4 at 7:30 PM ET/PT as part of the Cartoon
Network Summer 2007 programming promotion. The summer run was confirmed in the
Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea DVD released on April 2, 2007. Pokémon
Diamond and Pearl has also been airing on YTV in Canada since September 8,
2007. Ash and Brock are joined by a new coordinator named Dawn, and the trio
travel through Sinnoh, collecting gym badges and ribbons. Gary returned in this
series.
Diamond
and Pearl came to an end on September 9, 2010, and two weeks later was replaced
by a new series based on the games, Pokémon Black and Pokémon White. On June 9,
2010, a blog posted by the storyboard writer revealed that the first four
episodes of the Pokémon: Black & White series were finished and confirmed
Ash returning. Two new characters would be traveling with Ash. On July 1, 2010,
the official title of the 4th series - Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! - was
revealed. The series introduced two new characters traveling with Ash - Iris,
whos Axew travels in her hair, and Cilan, a "Pokémon Connoisseur"
("Sommelier" in Japan) who is a Gym Leader and specializes in
relationships with Pokémon and their trainers. In addition, a new rival, Trip,
was introduced as well.
In the
UK, the first eight series were aired on multiple channels, ITV1, ITV2, Channel
5 and Sky1. Battle Frontier and Diamond and Pearl were aired on Cartoon
Network. The CITV Channel and ITV4 recently broadcast the Battle Frontier
episodes for the first time on free TV, on everyday as part of Action
Stations!. Battle Dimension started airing in the UK on September 6, 2008, on
Disney XD (née Jetix), which is advertised confusingly as "the new home
for Pokémon in the UK", however episodes airing on Jetix/Disney XD have
also aired on CITV and ITV4, with ITV4 sometimes premiering new episodes.
Jetix/Disney XD's various European channels also started including Pokémon in
their schedules from late 2008, making it the only channel to air the newest
Pokémon series in some regions. The show will air on Pop soon.
In
Germany the series was shown for the first time on 1 September 1999. As
collecting main the USA version serves and simply with Germans dialogues was
provided. In Germany so far 12 Seasons was shown from RTL2.
In
Australia Pokémon: Black & White seasons airs on Eleven on 27 February 2012
at 7am Weekdays, formerly aired between Season 1-14 from 2000 to 2012 on
Network Ten, also aired on Cartoon Network from 2001 to present.
Cartoon
Network's India and Pakistan services, along with their Toonami UK service,
also carries Pokémon episodes. As of October 9, 2006, Cartoon Network's online
service, Toonami Jetstream, featured Pokémon episodes starting at the Orange
League episode "The Pokémon Water War". As from November 16, 2009,
Cartoon Network India is going to air the dub of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
while Cartoon Network Pakistan is going to air it from November 9, 2009. The
last season of Diamond & Pearl series and thirteenth season overall,
Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors premiered on October 3, 2011
in India. The last episode of Diamond & Pearl series that was shown on
October 25, 2011 in India, while it is set to premiere on Cartoon Network
Pakistan on February 1, 2012.
Controversy
Main article: Pokémon episodes removed from
rotation
Pokémon
has had several anime episodes removed from the rotation in Japan or the rest
of the world. The most infamous of these episodes was Electric Soldier Porygon
(でんのうせんしポリゴン, Dennō Senshi Porygon?). The episode made
headlines worldwide when it caused 685 children to experience seizures and
seizure-like symptoms caused by a repetitive flash of light. Although the
offending sequence was caused by Pikachu's actions, the episode's featured
Pokémon, Porygon, has never been seen again in the anime except for one brief cameo
appearance in the movie, Pokémon Heroes and in one scene-bumper later in season
1. Its evolutions Porygon2 and Porygon-Z have never appeared either. On
September 1, 2006, China banned the series from prime time broadcasting (from
17:00 to 20:00), similarly to Western animated series such as The Simpsons, to
protect its struggling animation studios.The ban was later extended by one
hour.
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