It is also considered to be one of the first anime series on television to reach this level of mainstream success with Western audiences, as well as being credited with allowing the game series to reach such a degree of popularity and vice versa. The Pokémon anime series was largely credited for allowing anime to become more popular and familiar around the world, especially in the United States, where the two highest-grossing anime films are both Pokémon films. The anime series is accompanied by spin-off programming including Pokémon Chronicles, a series of side stories and the live-action variety and Pokémon-related news shows such as Pocket Monsters Encore, Weekly Pokémon Broadcasting Station, Pokémon☆Sunday, Pokémon Smash!, Pokémon Get☆TV and Meet Up at the Pokémon House?
Joined by his partner Pokémon Pikachu and a rotating cast of human characters, currently Goh, Ash goes on a journey to become a "Pokémon Master", travelling through the various regions of the Pokémon world and competing in various Pokémon-battling tournaments known as the Pokémon League. Each of the series follows Ash Ketchum, a young trainer of fictional creatures called Pokémon. In the international broadcasts, these series are split across 24 television seasons, with the 24th season, Master Journeys, streaming on Netflix in the United States (with additional episodes to be released quarterly). The anime franchise consists of seven sequential series in Japan, each based on a main installment of the Pokémon video game series. Pokémon ( Japanese: ポケモン, Hepburn: Pokémon), abbreviated from the Japanese title of Pocket Monsters ( ポケットモンスター, Poketto Monsutā) and currently branded in English as Pokémon the Series, is a Japanese anime television series, part of The Pokémon Company's Pokémon media franchise, which began broadcast in Japan on TV Tokyo in April 1997.
8 TV specials (3 full-length, 5 normal-length).
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