History Trivia / PokemonTheSeries

** The Japanese voice actors for the Team Rocket trio were quite vocal in how they disliked [[TookALevelInBadass their characters' change in personality]] during ''Best Wishes''.

* FaceOfTheBand: Most people who don't play Pokémon still know what a Pikachu is. Likewise, most parents automatically equate Pokémon to Ash and Pikachu.

*** Creator/DanGreen voiced Chuck when he reappeared in ''Journeys'' a whopping ''19 years'' since he last appeared in Johto. This does not apply to his Japanese voice actor professional wrestler Nobuaki Kakkusa being replaced by Takahiro Fujiwara.

* DoingItForTheArt: Applies to the anime. Yes, you read that right. Specifically, Takeshi Shudo's work on the early seasons in Japanese. While most of the anime's seasons and movies show that ''Pokémon'' can make [[CashCowFranchise oodles of cash]] with very little effort, Shudo saw fit to flesh out the world of ''Pokémon'' through his work on the show and to make a show that families could enjoy together. In both the show and supplementary material written by him, a lot of corners of the anime's universe are explored, which is especially apparent with the Japanese version of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' and its radio drama prequel.

** In the U.S, it Started off in syndication on UPN affiliated channels (and affiliates of other networks in markets with no UPN affiliate), then it was picked up by Kids WB starting in the second half of the original Kanto season until the end of the eighth season. Cartoon Network (who had been airing reruns since 2002; Creator/{{Boomerang}} took over rerun duties in 2006) became its home from the ninth season until the end of the nineteenth, in the ''XY'' series. In 2016, the show moved to Disney XD with the U.S. debut of the nineteenth movie and the ''Sun and Moon'' series, previewing before the ''XY'' series even finished on Cartoon Network. Following the end of ''Sun and Moon'' the series left U.S. televisions entirely, with ''Journeys'' opting to just stream on Creator/{{Netflix}}, with episodes being released in batches aftery three months.

* DelayedReleaseTieIn: The first season of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' features several episodes which lead into ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''. However, due to the infamous [[Recap/PokemonS1E38ElectricSoldierPorygon "Electric Soldier Porygon"]] seizure incident, the show was taken off the air for a few months. The movie's release date did not move to compensate for the schedule delay, meaning the Mewtwo tie-in episodes ended up airing a few months ''after'' the movie had already come out. This was averted in the American release, as the English episode package did not include "Electric Soldier Porygon" and it allowed the episodes to be broadcast before the movie's U.S. release.

* CreatorsPest: As mentioned above, Creator/AndrewRannells, the voice of Harley, doesn't like Team Rocket member James due to finding him to a bad representation of a gay man. He went into greater detail about his experience of playing said character in the show's musical ''Theatre/PokemonLive'' in his 2019 memoir, ''Too Much is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood''.

** While Creator/AndrewRannells, the dub voice of Morty from the Johto region and Harley from the Hoenn region, was grateful for his voice-over work in Pokemon, he's not very fond of the series due to finding its concept bizarre and confusing. He also didn't like the character James because he found him an [[CampGay offensive depiction of a gay man]] due to his purple bob cut hair and over-the-top feminine voice.

* DelayedReleaseTieIn: The first season of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' features several episodes which lead into ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''. However, due to the infamous [[Recap/PokemonS1E38ElectricSoldierPorygon "Electric Soldier Porygon"]] seizure incident, the show was taken off the air for a few months. The movie's release date did not move to compensate for the schedule delay, meaning the Mewtwo tie-in episodes ended up airing a few months ''after'' the movie had already come out.

** The Watch Disney XD app (later replaced with Disney NOW) and website may have more episodes of the show than their original shows, although no show Disney XD has ever run comes close to Pokemon's episode count. The app has almost every dubbed episode up to the present (except for the banned and undubbed episodes), as well as many of the movies.

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** Surprisingly, there have been a lot of examples of Japanese voice actors from ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' that have also voiced characters in Pokémon, including Tsuyu Asui as Iris, Shoto Todoroki as Clemont, Tenya Iida as Kiawe, Kyoka Jiro as Lillie, Saiko Intelli as Mallow, Yuga Aoyama as Molayne, and Izuku Midoriya as Go. And you know it’s both amusingly and ironically hilarious when you find out that two of the school’s heroes, All Might and Thirteen are voiced by the same seiyuus who voice Giovanni and Meowth.
** ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' also had a lot of voice actors voice Pokémon characters.
*** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' has Jotaro Kujo as [[Creator/DaisukeOno Leon]], Joseph Joestar as [[Creator/UnshoIshizuka Professor Oak]], Mohammed Avdol as [[Creator/KentaMiyake Giovanni]], Iggy as [[Creator/MisatoFukuen Oshawott and Georgia]] and DIO as [[Creator/TakehitoKoyasu Butch]].
*** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'' has Giorno Giovanna as [[Creator/KenshoOno Alain]], Bruno Bucciarati as [[Creator/YuuichiNakamura N]] (Japanese) and [[Creator/RayChase Professor Cerise]] (both Japanese and English), Guido Mista as [[Creator/KosukeToriumi Saizo]], Narancia Ghirga as [[Creator/DaikiYamashita Goh]], Trish Una as [[Creator/SayakaSenbongi Sobble]], Sale as [[Creator/KaitoIshikawa Kiawe]], Ghiaccio as [[Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto Gladion]] and Prosciutto as [[Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki Raihan, Barry and Ippei]]. [[Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi Diavolo]] provides various Pokémon.
*** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'' has the Foo Fighters as [[Creator/MariyaIse Bonnie]] and Narciso Anasui as [[Creator/DaisukeNamikawa Rotom Dex/Lucario]].
** Both of Morrison's [[Creator/MasakoNozawa Japanese]] and [[Creator/SeanSchemmel English]] voices are known for voicing the same character in [[Anime/DragonBallZ another long-running franchise.]]
** Finnish dub: Creator/AmyBurgess (Nurse Joy in ''XY'') and Creator/SariAnnStolt (Ash) have also worked together in ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''.
* ReleaseDateChange: "An Undersea Place to Call Home!" was suppose to air after "Coming Back into the Cold!", but was pushed due to the MV Sewol incident.

* DawsonCasting: In the Swedish dub, eternally 10-year old Ash [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpSd-0ZWBeU&t=1m15s is voiced by]] Dick Eriksson, who is 61 years old as of April 30, 2021.

* ThrowItIn: According to the first of the Creator/TakeshiShudo-authored [[LightNovel/PocketMonstersTheAnimation novelizations]], Team Rocket's line said every time they're defeated, 「やな感じ」 "ya na kanji," lit. "bad feeling," was ad-libbed by their Japanese voice actors.

* NamesTheSame:
** Suffice to say, Ash does ''not'' [[Franchise/EvilDead battle the undead with a chainsaw prosthetic]].
** Paul's Japanese name, Shinji, has no correlation with [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion the pilot of the EVA]] or [[Manga/{{Bleach}} the former (now current) Captain of the 5th Soul Reaper squad]]. As for the former, it led to [[AngelDevilShipping his pairing with Hikari (Dawn)]] being called Ikarishipping as a [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming fandom in-joke]].
** Is Flint the name of Brock's father[[note]]named "Munō" in Japanese[[/note]] or a Sinnoh Elite Four member[[note]]named "Ōba" in Japanese[[/note]]?
** Nando from ''Diamond and Pearl'' happens to share the same name with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nando%27s a South American chicken restaurant chain.]]

* TalkingToHimself:
** Veronica Taylor, Eric Stuart and Rachael Lillis, the original voice actors for Ash, Brock, and Misty also voice Delia Ketchum (Ash's mom) and May, James, and Jessie respectively.
** When [=TPCi=] took over the English dub, the voices of James and Meowth were taken over by Creator/JimmyZoppi (under different pseudonyms; Meowth is credited to Carter Cathcart), who originally voiced Gary Oak (and continued to do so).

** [[https://twitter.com/Ringo1748607337/status/1532490022112448524?s=20&t=sFHneSotjDtnF_yOrt2wqg An interview with Tomioka revealed two changes from the initial plan of the later ''Journeys'' series, the first being that Paul's return was not originally planned but added in to expand on what was originally a Oak Lab training episode and show off Paul's growth since we last saw him. The second is that originally, non-Ash Master Eight battles were going to be underfocused on to focus more on Ash's unpredicatable battle style over their more focused ones, but the producers quickly told Tomioka doing that would be a waste.

** Paul's Japanese name, Shinji, has no correlation with [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion the pilot of the EVA]] or [[Manga/{{Bleach}} the former (now current) Captain of the 5th Soul Reaper squad]].

** Nando from ''Diamond and Pearl'' happens to share the same name as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nando%27s a South American chicken restaurant chain.]]

** While Creator/AndrewRannells, the dub voice of Morty from the Johto region and Harley from the Hoenn region, was grateful for his voice-over work in Pokemon, he's not very fond of the series due to finding its concept bizarre and its voice acting annoying. He also didn't like the character James because he found him an [[CampGay offensive depiction of a gay man]] due to his purple bob cut hair and over-the-top feminine voice.