'Pokémon' Pluto TV Channel Adds Hoenn Saga, Battles Advanced Mislabeling
That’s nine of 22 seasons down so far! The unbeatable dream continues!
We have another breakthrough in the Pokémon streaming sphere! While the Pokémon TV YouTube channel carries on with its daily without a hitch, starting season four, Johto League Champions, on Saturday. But as it turns out, Saturday was an even bigger day for streaming of the anime. While I was searching Yu-Gi-Oh!’s Twitch channel for any Sevens presence (the guide was only giving me original series), I noticed the Pokémon channel’s guide was saying Pokemon: Advanced Battle. Except it wasn’t really. But it will. Very soon as of publishing, less so when writing started. At the very least, the full original series loop of the first five seasons that had been in place since November 8 had finally been broken. The Advanced Generation saga, known as Pokémon The Series: Ruby and Sapphire for international audiences since 2013, has been added to the Pluto TV channel.
The Advanced Generation saga aka Pokémon The Series: Ruby and Sapphire covers 191 episodes (leaving off a skipped clip show) from “Get the Show on the Road!” to “Home is Where the Start Is!”. They are divided into the sixth through ninth seasons of the overall anime: Pokémon: Advanced, Pokémon: Advanced Challenge, Pokémon: Advanced Battle, and Pokémon: Battle Frontier. They chronicle Ash Ketchum’s travels through Hoenn as he competes in the Hoenn League, alongside Brock, rising Contest Coordinator May, and her brother Max, followed by a trip back through Kanto to challenge the Battle Frontier. It sees the departure of original narrator Rodger Parsons, and the first sprinkles of recasts until the end of Advanced Battle sees the major recast of Veronica Taylor, Eric Stuart, Amy Birnbaum, Rachael Lillis and Maddie Blaustein to Sarah Natochenny, Bill Rogers, Kayzie Rogers (no relation), Michele Knotz and Carter Cathcart starting with Battle Frontier.
'Pokémon' Is Stuck On Pluto, On Break On YouTube
Well that was a highly energetic 8 weeks. But things took a turn for the slowpokes. On October 22, 2024, Pluto TV launched its 24/7 channel dedicated to the Pokémon anime with the first four seasons up to Johto League Champions. On November 8 they completed the Johto saga by adding the fifth season,
I buckled down on investigating the circumstances during "Hokey PokéBalls", the 34th episode of Advanced Challenge. Except it and the eighteen episodes between it and Advanced Battle were all labeled Advanced Battle. Of course Advanced Battle was too. I looked further. Google didn’t have that many results about something so niche in its first 40-ish hours, but it did provide enough of a timeline.
The first noticeable aspect was a Facebook and Threads post by Pokémon Global News. They included a screenshot of an episode description, and it was of “Having a Wailord of a Time!”, the 34th episode of Advanced, so it was definitely across all three of the Advanced-themed titles. The Reddit thread confirmed it was Friday night, early Saturday around midnight. And it was started by someone who kept on top of things even better than I did. Unfortunately, because the guide doesn’t go far enough to surpass the whole of the actual Advanced Battle, it’s unclear if Battle Frontier will suffer the same fate.
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Source: Reddit