The Pokémon anime series are about a boy named Ash Ketchum, he travels the world with his friends (human and Pokémon) in order to win Gym badges which are an entrance into tournaments, battle other Pokémon trainers, and catching new Pokémon. During this he also encounters Team Rocket, part of a criminal organization, who are trying to steal his Pokémon, and especially his Pikachu. Unfortunately for Team Rocket they never succeed and they end up being blown away, episode after episode. The anime relates to the Pokémon video games quite a bit, for example, just as in the video games, Ash cannot carry more than 6 Pokémon at a time.
Check here the very first episode of the Pokémon series!
For each season of the main series there has been a movie made featuring the main characters of the season, currently there are 15 Pokémon movies and one feature length TV broadcast (Mewtwo Returns). Each movie features a Legendary Pokémon; this is mostly done to promote them in new version of the video games and in new series. Aside from the anime series and the movies there are also different Pokémon specials. In English they are called the Pokémon Chronicles or Pokémon Sunday series, alongside the Legend of Thunder! special and several Pikachu shorts.
Some Pokémon episodes were removed from the rotation, the most infamous of these episodes is “Electric Soldier Porygon”, this episode was removed because hundreds of children experienced seizures or seizure-like symptoms after seeing repetitive flashes of lights in the episode. Even though these flashes of light were caused by an attack by Pikachu, the featuring Pokémon Porygon never appeared in the anime again and neither did his evolutions Porygon2 and Porygon-X.
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