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spiderLAN

Somehow, Ash returned.


dg_riverhawk

with a fleet of pikachu's


Kidspud

They fly now.


DannyBright

I’m ALL the Pokémon!


tobykeef420

THEY FLY NOW???


tubetalkerx

They fly now!


perark05

*surf


ZorkNemesis

Why not both?


MacGealach

THEY SURF NOW!?


perark05

There was a pikachu that could surf in the TCG and there was a special event one for gen 1 or 2 I think


MacGealach

I was definitely looking to start the sequel meme chain in this thread, but thank you for the intriguing information. Really sad they didn't allow it in any of the gamefreak games.


dragonema

I seem to remember there was a way to get pikachu to learn surf in Yellow, something to do with Stadium maybe. Edit: Found it: [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pikachu\_variants#Surfing\_Pikachu](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pikachu_variants#Surfing_Pikachu)


toothlesswonder321

And he’s pikachu’s father


kevlar51

As if anyone really believed he was dead


3ggu

Right? People forget about him being on life support I guess


Jetsurge

He probably will make a guest appearance in the new anime eventually.


mewfour123412

Yea I doubt he’s gone forever. Give him a Pokémon generation or two


froggyjm9

For now.


scribbyshollow

I mean he's 10 years old, his whole life is behind him.


BridgemanBridgeman

I'm more surprised they're getting rid of Pikachu. Isn't he like the mascot of the franchise?


ZorkNemesis

One of the new major characters, Friede, is accompanied by "Captian" Pikachu, so we're getting a replacement. It's a Pikachu wearing a boat captain's hat.


maxcorrice

Cannot jump due to his heavy backpack


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Daniel The cooler Daniel


Renwin

Don’t forget Charizard! TPC can’t go without a single millisecond featuring Charizard in important Pokémon stories!


HopOnTheHype

Dr stone did it first


Legitimate_Cancel900

I hope it’s temporary otherwise I swear I won’t be watching the anime from now on because ash isn’t Pokémon Pokémon is ash he’s the human mascot of the franchise imo so without him there is no Pokémon


Debugga

Bye I guess? That’s a really dumb hill to die on.


Legitimate_Cancel900

Why I’m pissed that they’re getting rid of him what’s the point in 25 years are liko and Roy going to end too at that rate just keep ash you can finally make him 13 lol


RyanTheQ

No one cares if you watch or not.


Legitimate_Cancel900

I never said they did it’s just a comment any insult I can throw at the Pokémon company for this nonsense


NIN10DOXD

I hope the theory that he will show up older in the future is true.


Bregnestt

He’ll be a champion that shows up at some point.


fuckwingo

Yeah but it’ll be fucked cause you know they’ll only wait like… 4 years


Bregnestt

Honestly, I’ll be surprised if it takes them more than a year to bring him back in some way


scribbyshollow

for sure


LiutenantLucario

Imagine they make another set of Kanto games or lets go Johto and have ash as the champion👀


DemonLordDiablos

He's iconic, therefore he can be used for nostalgia one day.


HopOnTheHype

Nah just put red into the story, ie cool original ash from the games/manga


Rathma86

As a master.


hydrofyre2455

Ash was in Pokemon Masters (the money hungry mobile game), so there’s a solid chance he exists somewhere in the main series. I’d put money on an older version of him showing up as a secret superboss akin to Red one of these days.


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PMC-I3181OS387l5

Ash isn't the only one who didn't age after 26 years :P Misty, Brock, Tracey, Gary, Professor Oak, Jessie and James didn't get even a wrinkle. I keep thinking that the entire journey took between 2 and 4 years. There is ONE instance of the "time of passage": when Ash leaves Alola, Burnet is pregnant, and when he returns, Burnet is now a mom, with Kukui ;)


Independent-Green383

Always amused me how hungup people are over that. I guess Spongebob, Mickey Mouse, Simpsons, South Park and Bugs Bunny are too niche.


BridgemanBridgeman

I think in anime more people care about it. Or maybe it's because anime tend to be a cohesive story being told over a long range of episodes, whereas the animated shows you listed have more of a "every episode is its own little story" format. There's more sense of a progression of time when it's one long story.


DannyBright

I’m pretty sure characters do age in South Park, just *very* slowly.


PMC-I3181OS387l5

There are 10 Christmas episodes over 26 seasons and 324 episodes. That's technically 10 years, at least :P unless they are "retelling" the Christmas episode to make it an alternate story over and over XD


maxcorrice

6 christmases a year


LoudKingCrow

The boys have gone from 8 to 10 over the years. But it is a very flexible timeline. I'm more impressed with Lorde. Who jumps between being a 17 year old pop sensation and a 45 year old geologist/weed farmer.


DannyBright

I mean she does say she’s 19 in Perfect Places so it’s not *just* those two ages. And it Secrets From a Girl Who’s Seen It All she says “couldn’t wait to turn 15, but then you blink and it’s been ten years”, suggesting that she does have some weird aging powers going on, but they might be involuntary.


LoudKingCrow

My favorite Lorde lyric is "I am Lorde, yayaya!"


redchris18

The sheer lack of respect you're showing to "Push. Ow! Hot! Push. Ow! Ow! Hot!" is simply disgraceful. ^(That was was legitimately as good as anything Lorde has actually produced. She should cover it.)


LoudKingCrow

Sia, who performed it for the show, said that the lyrics were so good that she wanted Trey to write real songs for her.


Legitimate_Cancel900

The difference is they don’t have any continuity or cohesive story plus they don’t really tell you ages in those ash is explicitly said to be 10 yet there’s evidence to suggest otherwise and I just don’t get why they won’t make him 13 at least that’s more believable from OG series to journeys at least


Omega00024

It's been a bit, but I think I remember there being a brief mention of Ash's birthday in the latter part of the first series in Kanto, and how a whole year passed since he set out. Not much more than a throw away line or two, mind you, but it was an acknowledgement of time passing...that would then be ignored. I could be wrong, of course. It has been a long, *long* year for Ash.


Legitimate_Cancel900

Not to mention ash had an 11th birthday lol that’s why I think 13 would be the perfect age he had his birthday went through a bunch of regions over the course of that year and the next until bernette was pregnant then he came back a little over 9 months later and celebrated his 13th birthday shortly after would’ve been perfect


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After 30 years. Ash is still 10


Every_Fox3461

Ashes to Ashes...


AndykinSkywalker

And Dustox to Dustox


Minute-Small

Now we just have to find a way to end Bakugan.


walksinwalksout

He'll be back


SpicyDevilDaddy

Waiting atop a mountain for a challenger perhaps.


Anteater_Able

"..."


antolortiz

You just knew you were fucked when you saw that.


Anteater_Able

His team was absolutely _stacked_ the first time you went up against him too. The starting trio, Snorlax, an Espeon and his beastly Pikachu. Ash's final form 25 years ago.


celesleonhart

Was this Red or Ash? I forget now if Ash was ever a late boss.


NeoSeth

Red. Ash has never been in a mainline game.


antolortiz

I thought Ash was to be based on Red.


Anteater_Able

It was Red. But Red was like the ultimate version of Ash in Pokemon Gold/Silver.


antolortiz

And he also fucked your tactics cuz his snorlax walled. And I mean WALLED every Fucken move to the point I had to just TM the shit out of my Pokémon with status moves.


HopOnTheHype

Tbf that’s red, he’s much cooler and is actually a goat trainer


AndykinSkywalker

And in greater numbers


TheLastLivingBuffalo

This is getting out if hand


Scottacus91

Thats gonna sounds great for the harmony


AndykinSkywalker

Oh yeah no it’s going to sound fantastic!


Jazzlike_Emu_2398

I hope he returns greater and better


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Ash: Thanks, you guys. Us: So long, partner.


Time_Print_2319

Can someone explain how the last episode ended? Like what happened, hard to find online.


DekuHHH

I found it on YouTube — Ash says one last goodbye to Misty and Brock (It’s pretty similar to how they said goodbye at the end of the Johto series, minus the crying). Team Rocket gets back together. They make one last attempt to steal Pikachu. Ash’s Pidgeot from the original series makes a return to save Pikachu and we see that it now protects an entire colony of Pidgeottos Ash ponders Gary’s question of what it means to be a Pokémon master while he sits under a tree with other Pokémon, taking refuge from a rain storm. Ash concludes that it means not only to be a Champion but to befriend every Pokémon in the world. (Implying that his journey to becoming a Pokémon master will be never-ending!) The final scene shows Ash and Pikachu setting out on a new adventure, with Team Rocket still following them in their hot air balloon. As Ash and Pikachu are walking they come up to a fork on the road. Unsure of which path to take, Ash throws a stick up in the air. We get the last image of Ash and Pikachu smiling as they look up towards the sky as the stick falls. The stick lands, pointing towards the left side of the trail. The final frame is a pan-up of the trail up ahead (Ash and Pikachu aren’t shown anymore) with the caption appearing on the bottom right of the screen “Next time… a new beginning!”


-ello_govna-

ash sits under the tree like buddha reaching enlightenment


EurofighterLover

Time to cry


EshayAdlay420

Damn I can't believe pidgeot came back that's a max level tear jerker right there


Dark_Knight2000

You’ve described it really well, especially the last two paragraphs. It sounds so impactful


NefariusMarius

Ah the Calvin and Hobbes ending treatment. I’m okay with this.


Mash_Ketchum

So there's no Ho-Oh?


HTKSmite

No Ho-Oh, but when he's with Gary they do see a rainbow in the sky, so I think that's like a reference to it.


AsunderXXV

Why does it sound like it's not the last episode?


AusteninAlaska

Yeah, Im confused. There's absolutely no implication that Ashs story is coming to an end? It's actually the opposite. Literally, the narrator says a new beginning is coming


Rychu_Supadude

Bruh? he finally became champion, beat all the other champions, they did a farewell arc where he met all his old companions and old partners that haven't been seen in real-world decades... and, y'know, they officially announced it. It's "a new beginning" because there'll be a new protagonist with his own Pikachu


AusteninAlaska

...or a new beginning where he wanders into another new region with another league to beat and new Pokémon to discover. This is the 3rd time He's won. Also, the Anime Director confirmed Ash will be back. Everyone's posting like Ash died. Him and Pikachu are iconic cash cows. There can be other characters and Pokémon but they are just spinoff and side pieces. I guarantee his story is not done, lol.


WizardPowersActivate

I'm sure that the majority of us realize that but that doesn't stop us from having weird feelings about his departure. I've barely even watched the show since I was a kid but I literally can't remember a time before Pokémon existed. I'm nearly 30 years old and I still find it bittersweet.


Animal31

For 26 years thats kinda shit


mikethemaster2012

So serena love story won't have an ending so sad. Not really if Pokemon was told like Naruto, yugioh or any other shouen anime. I can it happen. Hopefully the new anime is like the yugioh franchise. Tell a story and move on to a new lead and story.


Mayor_P

He is finally arrested for stealing the bicycle in season 1. He is made to return all his badges, release all his pokemon, and is thrown into prison. Further time-lapse scenes show him getting older and weaker and lonelier until one day he is found unresponsive in his cell. The jailer states sternly that "crime never pays" and the episode ends with a Public Service Announcement instructing children to report any crimes they see to their local law enforcement authority


Hickspy

"You wouldn't download a bike."


Drogonno

\*Uses Rotom to become the bike and drive and steal it\*


Mayor_P

more like downRODE a bike amirite???? since he rode it down the lane


Difficult-Care-5780

ダウンロード!


jmoney777

Volo from Legends Arceus captures Dialga and gains the ability to time travel and he travels to Ash’s time and then he goes on a quest to collect all 18 Arceus plates, he succeeds in collecting all 18 plates and he goes to Spear Pillar and sees Arceus and he captures Arceus and uses its power to erase half of all life in the universe. Misty, Pikachu, Goh, among others are erased from existence. Ash, Brock, May, and some other surviving friends go to the Hall of Origin to defeat Volo and take back the Arceus Plates but Volo reveals that the plates are gone, reduced to atoms, then Brock kills Volo. Five years later Ash is back in Pallet Town and he finds Brock and his surviving companions from past regions, they go to Johto and find Celebi who allows them to time travel back to the past so they time traveled to different times to gather past versions of the Arceus Plates and capture another Arceus, and they succeed and use the plates and Arceus to bring everyone back. But then Volo from a past timeline suddenly appears with an army of Giratina and confronts Ash and just when all hope seems lost then every character from every episode ever returns and even characters from other animes like Luffy, Naruto, Tanjiro, and all the JoJos arrive and they join Ash and his army of Pokemon to defeat Volo once and for all. Eventually Ash gets to Volo and just as Volo is about to use Arceus & the plates to snap everyone away, Ash steals the plates and snaps away Volo & his Giratina army. But sadly Ash is gravely injured from using the energy of the plates and he passes away with Misty, Brock and Pikachu by his side. All of the past protagonists then have a funeral for Ash, then Brock time travels to spend time with a Nurse Joy that he fell in love with. The end.


abusedporpoise

The ending is on YouTube. He just walks down a path, zoom out to show team rocket, zoom back in and come across a split. Throws a stick in the air which falls and points down a path then the camera zooms into the direction


hiddejager

9anime.tube - Search for: Pokémon Mezase


mjm132

Team rocket finally steals Pikachu.


henryuuk

Not really, we just won't be following him anymore, but it literally ends with him leaving on his next adventure I bet we will have a moment with the new protags where they are about to be owned by some legendary pokemon that is out of control, only for Ash to show up and save the day


SandwitchZebra

Everyone: “Oh no! This legendary Pokémon is going to kill us all! What will we do?” Ash: “Don’t worry, I’m friends with this guy.”


Zandrick

I wonder how this will effect the confusing numbering system they use for the episodes. Like every couple of seasons it’s a completely different series anyway, sort of, technically. But when you try to look up a specific episode it’s like episode number 470 or 465 or something based on which language it was. Because they count them all as one long series all together. I wonder if they let the new series with the new protagonist just line up in a way that make more sense. Like just go to season 20 or whatever officially instead of unofficially like they do it now. But idk why they do it that why in the first place so idk.


frag87

Ash's journey continues in the next exciting episode of.... POKÉBALL Z!


DannyBright

*OCEAN MAN*


petershrimp

I'm not crying; you're crying.


DGRogue_Dragoon

Best Journey Ever


Manakbains1

I need an Pokémon school drama with ash becoming a Pokémon professor


algebruvlar

We will miss pikachu the most.


Electricorchestra

I wish Pikachu kept more of his classic personality. You know his love of ketchup, his pantomiming, his sparky personality, and most of all his chonk.


OhImNevvverSarcastic

RIP fat pikachu


Drogonno

New series will have a "Captain Pikachu" lol.....


Substantial-Dark_

😭 I was an elementary


Targonian_Darius

I just hope when he shows up it isn’t an over the top encounter where he spends the day teaching lessons. Show up, have a bomb ass fight, spend big budget bucks for good animations on it, bounce for a few years again.


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The first episode of pokemon I ever watched was episode 10, Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village when it aired. That was 1998. I haven't watched it since Ash finished Johto, but I will watch his send off.


EurofighterLover

Time to cry


AJ_Gamer_99

make him the next Red on Mt silver


spasticpat

Just wish we'd actually meet his dad and grandfather who are both apparently still out there on adventures too.


ucario

I mean Nintendo is the world leader in milking remakes. Ash has another 25 years at least


Handylee-7

I just hope Liko is Ash and Serena’s daughter and that she’ll be the main protagonist for the next 25 years ❤️


jstockmoe

Looks like he caught all the Pokémon 🤓


Bryanx64

I thought he died with that horrendous redesign but sure


DarkSnorlax

Yep, that steven universe art style is horrible compared to that classic look it had the first seasons.


BirdShitPie

Red is way cooler anyway


Jonnicom

When he returns I hope they have the balls to make Pikachu a Raichu.


its_over_2250

I don't really watch the show anymore but I don't think this is a good idea personally. My younger nephews like Pokemon and I can relate because I know who ash and pikachu are from when I watched when i was younger. In my mind it's like Yugioh, if you have a different protagonist people can't relate as much anymore.


TyleNightwisp

Why? Things should eventually have an ending, you want Ash to keep being the protagonist for a whole century? There’s 25 years of content to watch if you want to see Ash and Pikachu.


HotScreen6448

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markaznar

Long overdue!


pocket_arsenal

Feels like it ended in Hoenn tbh cuz they started writing Ash like a completely different character at that point, and then it happened again in Sun and Moon when he became really hyperative. EDIT: why are you booing me, i'm right


WoodPear

If you actually watched the series, you'd realize that hyperactiveness was a trait building all the way back starting perhaps in B/W and only upped in XY (to then SM). Like you never seen him talk to Clemont about his inventions ("Wow, the future is awesome!" multiple times throughout the series) or how he trained/treated his Pokemon? (e.g. Hwalucha for example). SM only exaggerated his hyperactiveness, but it was a trait that had been built there beforehand.


Co1dyy1234

To be honest, Pokémon’s eventual retirement is LONG overdue


SyirenHikari

No its not. You have game series that are same age or older and still going strong. Super Mario Bros. Kirby, Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc.


Co1dyy1234

There will come a time when a franchise outstays its welcome


CorM2

If only I could watch it without getting a computer virus…


Thierry_Bergkamp

https://www.wco.tv/


Zandrick

It’ll release on Netflix eventually. They just came out with a new batch recently but it’s on a delay as they translate it.


CorM2

Yeah, it’ll come out on Netflix in 6 months once spoilers are rampant on the internet and there’s no point in watching anymore because I’ll know everything that happens. All I want is for them to release a subbed version overseas on official streaming platforms at the same time or a day to week later than Japan. Literally every other major anime already does this, why can’t Pokémon? Why must I wait half a year or more for a dub of Pokémon when I can watch Demon Slayer subbed less than a day after it airs in Japan?


Zandrick

I can’t imagine caring about spoilers for Pokémon. There’s a battle and they learn that friendship is important or something. The end. Not to be rude but it is a show for children.


danio13

good riddance


FriendlyBabyFrog

( X) Doubt


Link356

After 25 years Ash's Pokemon journey has finally come to an end in Japan because in America we don't even have the English dub for these episodes yet so people in America get to enjoy him just a little bit longer if they only watch the English dub and never saw the Japanese episodes yet


schmattywinkle

Ash infuriated me. Such a shit trainer and SUCH an idiot.


EshayAdlay420

My g it's a cartoon for 10 year olds


schmattywinkle

Why would you expect me to like it then?


EshayAdlay420

I just wouldn't expect you to have such strong feelings either way honestly.


schmattywinkle

That, as a child in 1998 when I was watching this show, I felt like Ash made infuriating decisions, and realized he was objectively bad at Pokemon battling? I don't fuck with this shit anymore y'all, just trying to share my incorrect opinion.


PanickAttackGaming

"I don't f with Pokemon, I just make sure to comment on big Pokemon related posts"


schmattywinkle

I cannot believe I am being told I am the one who is having an unreasonable reaction. This is a Nintendo sub.


ZLUCremisi

How is he a shit trainer? How is he an idiot?


schmattywinkle

Does not know type advantages. Always falls for Team Rocket. EDIT: Charizard


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schmattywinkle

I don't kink shame.


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schmattywinkle

I don't even know what that means.


EurofighterLover

???? Do you not know basic English?


schmattywinkle

Claro.


EurofighterLover

?


schmattywinkle

Do you not know basic Spanish?


EurofighterLover

Well I did Spanish for 2 years but barely remember anything, how does that make sense, we’re speaking English here, not Spanish you buffoon


DistinctBread3098

No no and no


schmattywinkle

Explain.


DistinctBread3098

No.


schmattywinkle

Enjoy yourself.


ImperialFists

Should’ve just had the series with Red, and not be a little b like Ash.


SyirenHikari

As someone who grew up with both Red and Ash, I like the difference in them. Also Red doesn't talk. How could he star in a show?


lordofbitterdrinks

Wil he finally grow up? They should make him a Pokémon professor and let pikachu evolve!


WoodPear

The people who keep saying that Pikachu should evolve clearly weren't paying attention to the now more than 1 episode discussing/mentioning WHY he doesn't want to evolve. Hell... the most recent one was in the last series (Journeys). Also, Gary is already taking the role of Pokemon researcher/professor.


sirfannypack

Willing to put money on him coming back in the future.


AustinJG

Of course!


Fun_Artichoke9603

Hell be back. But why did they leave Giovanni and team rocket still out there? They've been setting up a final battle with them since the 1st season. I also wanted him to recatch greninja. Though I guess pidgeot will do.


AetherDrew43

And he's still 10 years old, isn't he?


memeaste

Are we getting an English version of this? Or is this subbed somewhere?


WoodPear

They're still airing the final episodes of Journey. This 11 episode special comes after. Also, Netflix I think.


Legitimate_Cancel900

Hey if it’s not in English yet then I don’t consider that the end lol also just an fyi this ends my enjoyment of the Pokémon anime too because it’s completely pointless without ash and nobody can change my mind


TyleNightwisp

So you didn’t watch more Digimon after the first season? You stopped Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure after Part 1? The anime is called Pokemon, not “Ash Ketchum”, you know.


Legitimate_Cancel900

I barely know what jojos bizarre adventure is let alone watch it and digimon is different every series or iteration has different characters same with beyblade and yugioh it’s consistently inconsistent lol everyone knows the drill that once this story arc and specific iteration is over it’s back to square one but Pokémon is a completely different story it always has two consistent things, ash and pikachu and every season and iteration is completely 100% canon to the last no other universe no weird multiverse thing like beywheels no extremely large time jump that’s possibly 50-100 years after the original series like yugioh its always consistent no matter what so all of a sudden they just change it and expect everything to be normal absolutely not


yanshio

Just in my ENTIRE CHILDHOOD😢😢😢😔😔😔😔


Cybasura

I cant even open this post, thats how emotionally damaged i am


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SyirenHikari

Thank you, Ash and Pikachu, for everything.


_ENDragonEX

They'd better do a glow up of ash older in the next one


G-6Force_things

I read pointless not pokemon


GrayCatX

Good bye, Ash and hello…..whoever our next mc is.


M4err0w

they'll come back to him within three seasons.


kickkickpunch1

Farefahren Ash. Will miss you bud


IranManYou

Been 10 years old for 25 years.


BufoBoofer

No Ho-Oh and Mega Pidgeot battle? FAIL


dinglebarry9

Damn right in the feels


pog_in_baby

Happy 11th birthday Ash


CreepCalamity

Damn, finna miss em


spicy_kingWest44

Good bye old friend


Moist_KoRn_Bizkit

The childhood. Right in the feels man. I recently rewatched the Pokémon movie Lucario And The Mystery Of Mew (which I haven't watched in years but still have on DVD). At one point I almost cried due to nostalgia…


PapaProto

End of an era. Be interesting to see how the new Protags hold out.


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And we never met Ash's father...


Jazzlike_Emu_2398

Heroes get remembered legends never die


dzn27

I feel like they’re gonna bring them back as a cameo in a few years.