Following its closure earlier this year, Pokémon TV is making its return this month as an official YouTube channel.
As reported by Serebii, the new Pokémon TV channel will contain "full episodes, live streams, and compilations" of the Pokémon anime series, starting from 6th December 2024.
Previously, the Pokémon TV app was available to download on the App Store, Google Play, Roku Channel Store, Amazon Appstore, Pokemon.com, and of course, the Nintendo Switch eShop. Its closure occured on 31st March 2024 after an initial announcement on 8th January 2024.
Full episodes of the anime can already be viewed via the official Pokémon YouTube Channel, but it looks like the new Pokémon TV channel will be solely dedicated to the long-running series. Curiously, the description for the channel specifies that you'll be able to "explore the world of Pokémon with Ash & Pikachu", so it seems reasonable to assume that perhaps it won't host episodes of Pokémon Horizons.
Commencing broadcasting in 2023, Pokémon Horizons is the first mainline series to not feature veteran trainer Ash Ketchum, and instead follows protagonists Liko and Roy within the Paldea region.
Will you be checking out the new Pokémon TV channel when it starts releasing episodes of the anime from 6th December? Let us know with a comment.
[source youtube.com, via serebii.net]
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They'll do anything but release their old games.
Our courage has pulled us through.
Are there actually full episodes of the anime on the Pokémon YouTube Channel? All I've ever seen there are clips, but it's possible that I have missed the former even though I don't know how.
Anyway, love to hear that Pokémon TV is back even if in a different form, will definitely consider checking it out when I have the time!
I hope they include the complete closing credits and "Who's That Pokémon?" bumpers too.
It always pisses me when off when "full episodes" on YouTube aren't in fact the full episodes.
I want it all, dammit!
@JohnnyMind
On Pokemon TV itself they had full episodes and movies, guess this here means they bring it also to Youtube.
Pokemon is something nice after a long mentally wasting work day, you can jump in, see a episode and you don't need to have watched everything before or afterwards.
It is just simple fun.
@Azuris "Full episodes of the anime can already be viewed via the official Pokémon YouTube Channel, but it looks like the new Pokémon TV channel will be solely dedicated to the long-running series." according to the article, but I've never seen those on the former so I was wondering if I've just somehow missed them (maybe because they're rarely added?) or if that's a mistake.
Anyway yep, couldn't agree more with you about the Pokémon anime series being like that!
I've been watching the Pluto TV stream on and off, but they're really being frustratingly slow about rolling out new seasons. It's been on there for like a month and a half and I think only season 5 has been added to the rotation in that entire time.
Good, maybe then I can finally start watching the damn show, without having to worry about whether or not all seasons are available...
@JohnnyMind There aren't many of them, granted, but they're definitely there.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK-r7sl2QkUSE_C6e-D4YW4OfGEh-v9Gz
@batmanbud2 I wonder if someone at TPC thinks that releasing the older games would make fans less interested or willing to buy the newer games and remakes?
@JohnnyMind hard to find in all the uploads, but they've posted a few full episodes over the years (most recently episode 1 of Horizons, and a few other first-of-the-season episodes). This seems to be more on the scale of what Yu-Gi-Oh! did (they've uploaded 3 full series to YouTube, and have uploaded one season of a 4th).
@TheExile285 looks at how much better the older Pokemon games were
Dunno how anyone over there would think that. Clearly TPC has got it all under control right now.
@Olliemar28 So that's the reason why after all, thanks for telling me and sharing that playlist!
@DarkTron Suspected that could be the case as you can see in my second comment here, thanks for the confirmation - we're most certainly going to see way more full episodes on YouTube soon enough thanks to Pokémon TV!
Sweet. Youtube has become the go-to place for older shows, be it My Little Pony, Transformers, He-Man and She-Ra, Sonic X, and even classic Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry.
@gcunit You teach me, and I'll teach you! Po-Kay-Mooooon!
I'm surprised it took them this long to do this. I know the entirety of shows like Transformers and Power Rangers on on YT... but now that I'm typing this, maybe that's just a Hasbro thing.
I’d rather they had just kept the app, I really don’t enjoy YouTube in the slightest and never even use it. But at least it’s on Netflix I guess? Unless they plan on pulling the first season off of there?
@Pillowpants season cycling will almost definitely still be a thing. Especially when these episodes are sold both digitally and physically, they're not going to make everything available for free and hurt those sales.
@LavenderShroud Why don't you like YouTube? I guess you prefer full shows? If you are on PC, Firefox + uBlock Origin lets you skip ads if that's your issue with it.
@Thief One can hope... I suppose I'll just keep on trucking with Season 1 on Netflix, while it's still there, then.
I had been using internet archive to watch them as of the last couple years
@FlameRunnerFast I just have zero use for it. I hate livestreams, streamers, etc. I can watch TV shows on an actual TV or streaming service, so YouTube is not something I enjoy.
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