To the surprise of Jessie and James-not to mention Ash-Caterpie's String Shot is able to defeat the Team Rocket Pokémon, including Meowth! When Misty tries to make nice with Caterpie, it evolves into a Metapod. However, Team Rocket shows up to steal Pikachu, weakening him and Pidgeotto in the process, so he reluctantly sends out Caterpie. The next day, Ash also captures a Pidgeotto. At night, as Ash and Misty sleep, Caterpie shares with Pikachu its dream of evolving into a Butterfree. While walking through the Viridian Forest, Ash discovers and catches a Caterpie-his first Pokémon capture! Though Ash is excited, Misty is grossed out by Bug-type Pokémon, so she is repulsed by its attempts to be friends with her. Transcription: " Pokémon Getto Da Ze!" ( Japanese: ポケモン ゲットだぜ!) "Ash Catches a Pokémon" (I'll Get You, Pokémon!) They manage to defeat Team Rocket by shocking them using Thunder Shock. Ash's Pikachu recovers and joins the Pokémon Center's many Pikachu. The Pokémon Center is then attacked by Jessie, James, and their talking Meowth members of Team Rocket, a crime gang seeking to steal all of the infirm Pokémon. Before Pikachu's treatment finishes, Misty, the girl who Ash took the bike from, confronts Ash for destroying her bicycle, and vows to stick with Ash until he compensates her for it. After explaining, Jenny takes Ash to the Pokémon Center, where Nurse Joy begins treatment on the injured Pikachu. Transcription: " Taiketsu! Pokémon Sentā!" ( Japanese: たいけつ! ポケモンセンター!)įinally arriving in Viridian City, Ash is cornered by Officer Jenny, who asks why he is carrying Pikachu instead of having it in a Poké Ball. "Pokémon Emergency!" (Showdown! Pokémon Center!) Ash and Pikachu see a glimpse of an unidentified Pokémon. Pikachu realizes how much Ash cares for him and uses a powerful electric attack to drive the Spearow away, destroying the bicycle and severely injuring Pikachu in the process as well. They run away from the Spearow, in which Ash "borrows" a bike from a red-haired girl named Misty to escape, but when they cannot go any farther, Ash uses his body to shield Pikachu from the attacking Pokémon. After many failed attempts at capturing some Pokémon, Ash throws a rock and hits a Spearow, who gets angry and calls an entire flock to chase Ash and Pikachu. Ash has no choice but to take a naughty Pikachu, who won't listen to Ash because Pikachu chooses to stay outside of its Poké Ball, forcing Ash to drag it along with a rope. He bumps into Gary Oak, grandson of the Pokémon expert, Professor Oak, who later shows Ash that all the Pokémon are gone. He wakes up late after accidentally destroying his alarm clock. Transcription: " Pokémon! Kimi ni Kimeta!" ( Japanese: ポケモン! きみにきめた!)Īsh Ketchum is finally ten years old old enough to become a Pokémon Trainer. " Pokémon, I Choose You!" (Pokémon! I Choose You!) Masamitsu Hidaka serves as the supervising director for the series until the beginning of Pokémon: Battle Frontier. The episodes were produced by Oriental Light and Magic, with Takeshi Shudo as head writer and Kunihiko Yuyama as chief director. Early in the season, Ash befriends the water-type Pokémon trainer Misty, who befriends Ash in hopes of him replacing her destroyed bicycle, and Brock, a Pokémon breeder who is the leader of the Pewter City gym. To qualify for the tournament, Ash must collect the required number of gym badges, which are tokens earned after defeating each of the Kanto region's elite Pokémon gym leaders. Ash is driven by his desire to win the Indigo Plateau's Pokémon League, a challenging tournament for outstanding Pokémon trainers who compete against each other in Pokémon battles. This season, the narrator of the Pokémon anime (voiced in Japanese by Unshō Ishizuka, and in English by Rodger Parsons) will follow the beginning adventures of Ash Ketchum (voiced in Japanese by Rica Matsumoto, and in English by Veronica Taylor), a 10-year-old aspiring Pokémon trainer from Pallet Town who is given a Pikachu (voiced by Ikue Ōtani) by Pokémon researcher Professor Oak to begin his Pokémon journey. It later aired in the United States in first-run syndication from September 8 to November 20, 1998, and on Kids' WB/ The WB from February 13 to November 27, 1999, concluding with the airing of the previously unreleased episode 18 on June 24, 2000. It originally aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 1, 1997, to January 21, 1999. Pokémon: Indigo League (originally aired simply as Pokémon) is the first season of the Pokémon animated television series and the first season of Pokémon: The Original Series, known in Japan as Pocket Monsters (ポケットモンスター, Poketto Monsutā).
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