Pokémon (1997)
Pokémon (1997)










Plot.
Where to Watch.







Currently Pokémon is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Tubi TV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Netflix, Hulu, The Roku Channel
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.

Rica Matsumoto
Satoshi (voice)

Veronica Taylor
Ash Ketchum

Ikue Otani
Pikachu (voice)

Mayumi Izuka
Kasumi (voice)

Rachael Lillis
Jessie

Satoshi Tajiri
Original Story

Daiki Yamashita
Gou (voice)

Eric Stuart
James

Kenyu Horiuchi
Narrator (voice)

Mayuki Makiguchi
Serena (voice)

Unsho Ishizuka
Narrator (voice) / Narrator / Professor Oak (voice)

KAORI
Haruka (voice)

Yuko Kobayashi
Shigeru Oak (voice)

Mamoru Miyano
Dent (voice)

Yuki Kaji
Citron (voice)

Mika Kanai
Eureka (voice)

Aoi Yuki
Iris (voice)

Rodger Parsons
Narrator

Megumi Toyoguchi
Hikari (voice)

Satomi Korogi
Togepi (voice)

Fumiko Takekuma
Maamame (voice)

Reina Ueda
Mao (voice)

Hitomi Kikuchi
Suiren (voice)

Kaito Ishikawa
Kaki (voice)

Keiichi Nakagawa
Narrator (voice)

Inuko Inuyama
Nyarth (voice) / Wanpachi (voice)

Sarah Natochenny
Ash Ketchum

Junichi Masuda
Writer

Ken Sugimori
Writer

Shin-ichiro Miki
Kojirou (voice) / Strike (voice) / Galar Kamonegi (voice)

Megumi Hayashibara
Musashi (voice) / Musashi / Rabifutto (voice) / Rabifutto (voice)

Katsuyoshi Kanemura
Art Direction

Yuji Asada
Storyboard Artist / Director

Toshiaki Suzuki
Storyboard Artist / Director

Kiyotaka Isako
Storyboard Artist / Director

Osamu Inoue
Storyboard Artist / Director

Kazu Yokota
Storyboard Artist

Yuta Murano
Storyboard Artist

Hiromasa Amano
Storyboard Artist

Masamitsu Hidaka
Storyboard Artist / Director / Series Director

Makoto Nakata
Storyboard Artist / Director

Noriaki Saito
Storyboard Artist

Takaaki Ishiyama
Storyboard Artist

Yoshitaka Fujimoto
Storyboard Artist

Kaori Higuchi
Storyboard Artist

Kunihiko Yuyama
Storyboard Artist / Series Director / Director

Kiyoshi Fukumoto
Storyboard Artist / Director

Takaomi Kanasaki
Storyboard Artist

Hiroyuki Kakudou
Storyboard Artist

Daiki Tomiyasu
Storyboard Artist / Series Director

Yasuhiro Noda
Storyboard Artist / Director

Saori Den
Storyboard Artist / Director

Tetsu Kimura
Storyboard Artist

Masakatsu Iijima
Storyboard Artist

Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Storyboard Artist

Daisuke Hiramaki
Storyboard Artist

Maki Kodaira
Storyboard Artist / Director

Yukio Okazaki
Storyboard Artist / Director

Motoaki Ikegami
Director of Photography

Yuji Ueda
Takeshi (voice) / Barrierd (voice) / Sonansu (voice)

Jenny Liljewråål
Translator

Adam Giertz
Actor's Assistant

Shigeru Omachi
Director

Koji Ogawa
Director

Fumihiro Ueno
Director

Makoto Ooga
Director

Hideki Hiroshima
Director

Ayumi Moriyama
Director

Masahiko Watanabe
Director

Kenichi Nishida
Director

Kiyoshi Egami
Director

Bjarne Heuser
Director

Makoto Sokuza
Director

Hiroaki Takagi
Director

Fumihiro Yoshimura
Director

Shigeru Ueda
Director

Hiromichi Matano
Director

Ryohei Horiuchi
Director

Keitaro Motonaga
Director

Shu Watanabe
Director

Junya Kobayashi
Director

Hiroyuki Yamada
Assistant Director / Animation Director / Storyboard

Yoshihiro Oda
Director

Taisuke Mamori
Director

Tomoe Makino
Director

Yoshitaka Makino
Director

Minoru Ohara
Director

Naoki Murata
Director

Tazumi Mukaiyama
Director

Toshio Henmi
Editor

Yutaka Ita
Editor

Takashi Kawaguchi
Development Producer

Takayuki Yanagisawa
Producer

Choji Yoshikawa
Associate Producer

Takemoto Mori
Producer

Masakazu Kubo
Development Producer

Shukichi Kanda
Line Producer

Tsunekazu Ishihara
Production Supervisor

Keisuke Iwata
Producer

Masafumi Mima
Sound Director

Takashi Yoshida
Music Producer

Shinji Miyazaki
Original Music Composer

Masafumi Sanma
Sound Director

Yuki Hayashi
Original Music Composer

Sayuri Ichiishi
Key Animation / Animation Director / Character Designer

Norimichi Yoshino
Color Designer

Yōichi Kotabe
Animation Supervisor

Shuhei Yasuda
Key Animation / Supervising Animation Director / Character Designer / Animation Director

Izumi Shimura
Animation Director / Key Animation

Kei Sakai
Key Animation / Animation Director

Masatsugu Takeda
Animation Director

Akihiro Tamagawa
Animation Director

Shinichiro Kajiura
Animation Director

Masaaki Iwane
Key Animation / Animation Director

Rei Yamazaki
Supervising Animation Director

Takayuki Shimura
Animation Director

Masayuki Hiraoka
Animation Director

Osamu Murata
Key Animation / Animation Director

Takashi Yamamoto
Animation Director

Claire Launay
Key Animation / Animation

Kenji Kodama
Key Animation

Takashi Shinohara
Key Animation / Animation Director

Mitsuhiro Okumura
Key Animation

Natsumi Hattori
Key Animation / Animation Director

Koki Yanagihara
Key Animation / Animation Director

Tomohiro Koyama
Animation Director / Key Animation

Ayako Oki
Key Animation

Toshihito Hirooka
Supervising Animation Director / Animation Director

Junko Isaka
Animation Director

Miyako Oota
Key Animation / Animation Director

Masami Murata
Key Animation

Hiromi Funatsu
Key Animation

Akihiko Oka
Animation Director

Yasushi Nishiya
Key Animation / Animation Director

Masaya Onishi
Animation Director

Munekatsu Fujita
Animation Director

Eikichi Takahashi
Key Animation

Chiaki Kurakazu
Animation Director

Mari Oda
Key Animation

Aito Ohashi
Animation Director / Key Animation

Makoto Shinjo
Animation Director

Xie Yaoxuan
Key Animation

Sadatoshi Matsuzaka
Key Animation

Sachiko Tsuji
Key Animation

Tomoki Ogawa
Animation Director / Key Animation

Masaru Fukumoto
Animation Director

Yoshimichi Kameda
Key Animation

Hiroyuki Moriguchi
Animation Director

Tsutomu Nishiyama
Key Animation

Akihiro Yuki
Key Animation

Hitomi Kono
Key Animation

Masumi Etō
Animation Director

Ryoko Oka
Key Animation

Keiko Shimizu
Key Animation

Yuu Takahashi
Animation Director

Mitsue Fukue
Animation Director

Maho Takagi
Animation Director

Liang Boya
Key Animation

Michinosuke Nakamura
Animation Director

Yasue Ohno
Key Animation

Hiroshi Nishimura
Key Animation

Kouki Fujimoto
Key Animation

Kouhei Yamazaki
Key Animation

Koichi Taguchi
Key Animation

Yoshiko Sasaki
Key Animation

Kiyoshi Nohji
Key Animation

Hide Watanabe
Key Animation

Daiki Harashina
Key Animation

Yuuki Kitajima
Animation Director

Maki Sawai
Key Animation

Nao Takano
Key Animation

Hiroshi Kagawa
Key Animation

Chikashi Kubota
Key Animation

Yasuhiko Akiyama
Key Animation

Michiko Notsu
Key Animation

Hayao Okawa
Animation Director

Mari Asada
Animation Director

Yasunori Aoki
Key Animation

Shinichi Yoshino
Animation Director

Ako Kagiyama
Key Animation

Takeshi Atomura
Key Animation

Takeshi Maenami
Key Animation

Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Key Animation

Shinichi Shigematsu
Animation Director

Tadaaki Miyata
Key Animation

Toshiyuki Sato
Key Animation

Rika Murakami
Key Animation

Yumi Sakai
Animation Director

Eriko Yagi
Key Animation

Akiko Nakano
Animation Director

Henry Thurlow
Key Animation

Shinya Ito
Key Animation

Mina Tanaka
Key Animation

Makoto Ito
Key Animation

Akiko Nakata
Animation Director

Nobuko Shinohara
Key Animation

Yoshiyuki Asai
Key Animation

Chuji Nakajima
Key Animation

Yuko Furstos
Key Animation

Sae Oba
Key Animation

Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Key Animation

Yuki Naoi
Animation Director

Haruko Ichihara
Key Animation

Kunihiko Natsume
Animation Director

Masahiko Nakada
Key Animation

Kei Shindo
Lillie (voice) / Riolu (voice) / Joy (voice)

Yasushi Suzuki
Key Animation

Teruaki Tokumaru
Key Animation

Saki Ebisawa
Key Animation

Yukari Kizaki
Key Animation

Yuki Masuya
Animation Director

Masakuni Kaneko
Key Animation

Kyoko Ito
Animation Director

Chieko Hisa
Key Animation

Keisei Noguchi
Key Animation

Norihiro Matsubara
Animation Director

Eiko Aoyagi
Key Animation

Masahiko Yoda
Animation Director

Keiji Shigesawa
Key Animation

Toshiko Nakaya
Animation Director

Atsuko Inoue
Key Animation

Tadashi Fukuda
Key Animation

Maki Kawake
Key Animation

Saka Ikeda
Animation Director

Hidetoshi Owashi
Animation Director

Tomoaki Sakiyama
Key Animation

Kenji Kato
Key Animation

Taiki Eto
Key Animation

Keita Hagiwara
Key Animation

Takahiro Kuroishi
Key Animation

Tomoyuki Ohshita
Key Animation

Emi Mori
Key Animation

Masayuki Fujita
Animation Director

Etsuhito Mori
Animation Director

Miyabi Ozeki
Animation Director

Yuko Kato
Animation Director

Hideaki Matsuoka
Animation Director

Aya Yamaguchi
Key Animation

Natsuki Shimabukuro
Key Animation

Masami Yamashita
Key Animation

Hiromichi Hayashi
Animation Director

Ayako Tanaka
Key Animation

Takeshi Shudo
Series Composition / Writer

Junki Takegami
Writer

Atsuhiro Tomioka
Writer

Hideki Sonoda
Writer

Yukiyoshi Ôhashi
Writer

Yuka Miyata
Writer

Shouji Yonemura
Writer

Shinzo Fujita
Writer

Michihiro Tsuchiya
Writer

Deko Akao
Writer

Touko Machida
Writer

Aya Matsui
Screenplay

Junichi Fujisaku
Writer

Reiko Yoshida
Writer

Tomo Sakurai
Yoshino (voice)

Chihiro Ueda
Sota (voice)

Daisuke Ono
Dande (voice)

Rikako Aikawa
Karakara (voice) / Butterfree (voice)

Tatsuki Kobe
Memepato's Trainer (voice) / Running Commentator 2 (voice)

Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Kibana (voice)

Kana Hanazawa
Mayuld (voice) / Koharu (voice)

Marina Inoue
Sonia (voice)

Yo Kitazawa
Danpei (voice)

Yuichi Nakamura
Professor Sakuragi (voice) / Sakuragi (voice) / Yessan (voice)

Ryota Iwasaki
Host (voice)

Kasuga Toshiaki
Kasuking (Voice)

Sayaka Senbongi
Messon (voice) / Kikuna / Messon (voice) / Kikuna (voice)

Kenta Miyake
Kairyu (voice) / Running Commentator 1 (voice) / Sakaki (voice) / Lizardon (voice)

Kiyotaka Furushima
Meguroco (voice)

Rika Adachi
Subame (voice)
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Details.
Release DateApril 1, 1997
Original Nameポケットモンスター
StatusEnded
Seasons25
Episodes1235
Content RatingTV-Y7
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
Pokémon, abbreviated from the Japanese title of Pocket Monsters, and currently branded in English as Pokémon the Series, is a Japanese anime television series, part of The Pokémon Company's Pokémon media franchise, which premiered on TV Tokyo in April 1997.
The anime franchise consists of eight sequential series in Japan, each based on a main installment of the Pokémon video game series. In the international broadcasts, these series are split across 27 seasons. The show originally followed Ash Ketchum, a young trainer of fictional creatures called Pokémon. Joined by his partner Pokémon Pikachu and a rotating cast of human characters, Ash goes on a journey to become a "Pokémon Master", traveling through the various regions of the Pokémon world and competing in various Pokémon-battling tournaments known as the Pokémon League. Starting with the 26th season, a new cast is featured, with new protagonists Liko and Roy.
The anime series is accompanied by spin-off programming; including Pokémon Chronicles, a series of side stories; and the live-action variety and Pokémon-related news shows; such as Pocket Monsters Encore, Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station, Pokémon☆Sunday, Pokémon Smash!, Pokémon Get☆TV, Meet Up at the Pokémon House? and Where are we going with Pokémon!?
The Pokémon anime series was largely credited for allowing anime to become more popular and familiar around the world, especially in the United States and Asia, where many Pokémon films are among the highest-grossing anime films. It is also considered to be one of the first anime series on television to reach this level of mainstream success with Western and Asian audiences, as well as being credited with allowing the game series to reach such a degree of popularity and vice versa. Pokémon is regarded as the most successful video game adaptation of all time, with over 1,300 episodes broadcast and adapted for international television markets, concurrently airing in 192 countries worldwide and one of the most widely watched shows on Netflix, as of 2016.
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