Anime and Manga Stack Exchange
Anime and Manga Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [pokemon]

Pokémon (short for "pocket monsters") is a video game with many anime and manga adaptations. Pokémon trainers capture and force animals called pokémon to do battle against those of other trainers.

Pokémon image

Pokémon is originally a japanese video game, made by GAME FREAK Inc.. Pokémon trainers capture and force creatures called pokémon to do battle against those of other trainers.. Because of the popularity, soon there was an anime and multiple manga-series published.

Questions regarding Pokémon, especially the manga and the anime. Questions about the story of the game are allowed, but for gameplay-specific questions please ask at Arqade.SE.

For more information:

160 questions
1
vote
0 answers

Why are Ash/Satoshi's achievements not mentioned in newer seasons?

Ash/Satoshi is the Alola region's Champion, so in the episode where he went back to Alola, I expected that someone would refer to him as the Alolan Champion, but nobody did. In another recent episode, Ash went back to the Unova region to fight Iris,…
Saksham Kushwaha
  • 185
  • 6
1
vote
1 answer

What happened to Molly's mother?

In Spell of the Unknown we are told that Molly's mother disappeared some time before the film. At the end of the film, Spencer appears with a woman who has a similar sort of hat to what Molly's mother has in the photograph. After seeing them, we…
Memor-X
  • 39,558
  • 50
  • 166
  • 346
1
vote
1 answer

Do the Pokemon movies occur in the series timeline?

In some anime, though there's logical placement for the movies to happen, it does not necessarily mean that the story of the movie really happened in the series timeline; an example is that for Naruto's movies, some of them clearly didn't happened…
USerNAme
  • 946
  • 8
  • 28
1
vote
0 answers

Why Ash does not grow up?

In all the series only the dress is changed. Ash doesn't grow up or does his maturity changes. What is the reason?
Hari Nandha
  • 1,175
  • 4
  • 12
  • 17
1
vote
1 answer

Why was Ash's Pokedex replaced?

At the end of the Orange League season (Episode 118 "The Rivalry Revival"), when Ash talks with Professor Oak and decides to continue travelling to the Johto region, Prof. Oak gives him a new Pokédex. In every new region Ash goes to, he get a new…
USerNAme
  • 946
  • 8
  • 28
1
vote
1 answer

Why is Greninja Ash's only bonded Pokémon?

If Ash bonded with his Greninja that he had for one generation, but he won't use it anymore, why haven't Pokémon like Pikachu or Tauros bond with Ash instead?
Matt
  • 11
  • 2
1
vote
0 answers

can pokeballs capture items such as rice balls

i was re watching episode 25 of the original Pokemon series and while ash threw a ball at manky, manky threw a rice ball back and the rice ball was captured just like a Pokemon but opened when it landed in ash's hands. from what i know, poke balls…
Dragon
  • 2,405
  • 3
  • 18
  • 45
0
votes
2 answers

Double poke catch

If you catch a pokemon and then catch it again, would you be able to use both balls to retrieve the pokemon or just one, and if it's just one, which one would be THE pokeball? I would prefer only anime and non game sources as games are often…
Nicholas
  • 1
0
votes
3 answers

Why didn't Ash release Charizard?

Why doesn't Ash release Charizard even though it is his worst pokemon? You might ask for instances which I prove as follows: Because of Charizard, Ash lost the Indigo League. Charizard was not able to defeat Dragonite when a small Pokémon like…
Accidental Genius
  • 21
  • 5
0
votes
1 answer

If Ash's last name is Ketchum and it comes from the phrase "Gotta catch 'em all," why doesn't he catch most of them?

He only caught a small fraction of all of the pokemon. If he has the last name "Ketchum" and it sounds like catch them all, why doesn't he catch most of them or all?
ajofiwajfa
  • 1
  • 2
0
votes
5 answers

Why does Mewtwo look so different from Mew?

Mewtwo is a man-made Pokémon, created from the DNA of Mew. All the other cloned Pokémon in the movie Mewtwo Strikes Back look like the one they cloned from, but not Mewtwo. Mewtwo looks totally different from Mew. Why is this?
Sayed Mohd Ali
  • 589
  • 4
  • 18
0
votes
1 answer

Which of Ash's Pokemon faints the most?

In the Pokémon anime, which one of Ash's Pokémon (other than the Pokemon that has been in more than one region than Ash, unless you re-count the number of faints for each region and not including Raticate or Aipom or any of his unofficial Pokémon)…
Hello
  • 1
0
votes
1 answer

Are these constellations real?

Are these poke-constellations real ? If so , then how do the constellations relate to the Pokémon , of vice versa ? And would you also please explain any other information you may have about the constellation and Pokémon relationship ? Or are these…
Feari_tairu07
  • 51
  • 1
  • 8
0
votes
1 answer

Pokemon: dialogue spoken by Ursula. Can you tell me the dialogue spoken by Ursula?

I saw an episode of Pokemon. In this episode, the two Pokemon girls Dawn and Ursula were talking to each other. They both are rival of each other, Ursula taunts Dawn in that episode; they both have taken part in a Pokemon contest. Since I am not a…
Prince ßádhWoloski
  • 103
  • 3
0
votes
2 answers

What would happen if a pokemon died instead of fainting?

I have searched for it and would like to know what would happen if a pokemon were to die. Would the trainer go on and get another pokemon? Or maybe they would stop being a trainer forever?
Deadpool
  • 37
  • 10
1 2 3
…
10
11