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According to Bulbapedia there is currently 861 main series episodes for the Pokémon anime. I wonder if the show will ever reach 1000 episodes and if it does first...wow! And second will that be the last episode of the Pokémon anime. I find there being 1000 episodes or more for the anime pretty ridiculous but it's a possibility.

Now of course I expect nobody here to have the correct answer for that of course not but I want your opinions on this topic. Also doing an entire marathon for the anime would take a long time depending on how many episodes you watch per day. :)
 
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The anime is a nice marketing tool for the creators of the series, mainly to promote the games. As long as the games exist, I don't think the anime will end anytime soon.

Besides that, I don't think the anime's popularity has decreased enough to put an end to it (at least, not in Japan).

And while 1000 episodes would be a symbolical end for the series, I don't think reaching the 1000th episode is a reason per say to end the show anyway.
 
Japan resets the numbering at the start of each series so they're never going to reach the 1000 episode mark.

Japanese fans don't treat the entire franchise as one long series.
 
Neo Blaze said:
The anime is a nice marketing tool for the creators of the series, mainly to promote the games. As long as the games exist, I don't think the anime will end anytime soon.

Besides that, I don't think the anime's popularity has decreased enough to put an end to it (at least, not in Japan).

And while 1000 episodes would be a symbolical end for the series, I don't think reaching the 1000th episode is a reason per say to end the show anyway.
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Actually, it's "Per se", but that's just me being picky. :S

Anyway, while 1000 episode would be great, as Neo Blaze said, I don't think that is a good reason for ending the series.

NicoDiapo-chan said:
I wonder if 1000th episode will be reunion all Pokemon Anime characters -w-
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That would be cool to see.
 
One problem would be defining the 1000th episode, by the time it rolls around we'll probably have had a few more episodes deemed to never have existed.

The range of episodes that could be called the 1000th would likely fall in near the first few gym badges during the Gen VII region - so I can't see anything happening, let alone an ending.

Anniversary episodes in terms of years since the show started are more likely to see something happen.

And in some form at least, I can't see the anime stopping until the games do - even if it eventually loses its current timeslot.
 
I'm pretty sure they will have some sort of special event once they reach this number.

Like Neo said I highly doubt they will stop the anime for good. The anime ends once they stop making pokemon games.

Which might take awhile. Lol.
 
Its hard to believe that pokemon anime is already over 850 episodes and still running. It was certainly long ride to get where it is now when it just began in 1997.remembering its roots and all those memorable, entertaining, but disappointing moments too it had over course of 17 years so far. Im starting to feel old. :p

Since only first year of XY series passed so far, pokemon will definitely at very least reach 1000th episode mark. But would this signalize its end?

All i can say is how it would provide nice symboling touch to it wrapping everything up with round and memorable number. Personally i would like to see this show reaching its finale during my life time, to see what will come of Ash character and his master quest, whole storyline which with all its inconsistency is still treated as one big adventure carried acros the regions and every replaced companion with unfinished dreams, stories , their fun divergent personalities and unused potential coming back to tie up open plots and play meaningful role again before everything ends.

With 1000 sounding like reasonable number to end some show on dignified note through grand finale having some meaningful message behind it.

However since pokemon anime is primarily treated as marketing tool, even more so in today day and age where games are followed to closer extent than in earlier sagas it will most likely going to continue airing as long games are successful delivering massive profit.
Granted pokemon games generate so much profit on their own selling like hotcakes that presence of pokemon show isnt even needed anymore to remain successful. Becoming globally known already.

But for entertainment factor, lighthearted inspiring adventure where Ash and friends explore world full of unique new creatures and various cultures teaching younger generations moral values, diference between good and bad etc.
Accompanied with serving as additional source of advertizing Nintendo and Gamefreak new products i sincerely doubt pokemon series will end any time soon.

Possibly going even beyond 2000 episodes mark. Unless ratings and popularity sink down so low to the point that expenses largely surpass revenues. Only than it might end sooner than expected and before new games stop being made.

NicoDiapo-chan said:
I wonder if 1000th episode will be reunion all Pokemon Anime characters -w-
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Seeing every past friend of Ash for 1000th anniversary would be amazing. In fact pokemon 20th annioversary will be in few years from now.
But i fear this might become cluster mess. For 10th anniversary things were easier because there were only 6 characters to work with.

Now 20 years later. Aside from current main characters Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie.
We have 8 replaced characters. Misty, Brock, May, Max, Dawn, Iris, Cilan and Tracey. That could imo perhaps be too much to unite everyone together. Give chance to have meaningful interaction going beyond one line or two. Let alone have enough space and time to give everyone fair share of action and focus.

Turning in cluttered mess even for one hour special. Maybe if we had smaller number of replaced companions i would be more optimistic, but currently i have my doubts of this even happening due to large number(which could have been avoided).
 
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If we do get a Gen VII, I can't really see them doing anything special with it since they'll be in the middle of a new region. A new special or something along those lines wold be cool to see though.
 
1000 episodes isn't really a reason to finish up the show or Ash's story considering the only reason this show exists is for advertisement and for the fans of the show in Japan. But we could have a special in Gen VII or even a reunion movie, that way it won't have to mess with the series by that time. One thing that'll be odd is trying to balance out the cast just right, I've read some stories that really add in too many characters at once and it ends up as a total mess with some characters totally shafted. I can imagine Tracey, Max, and Brock likely being shafted especially, while the girls barring Bonnie get the most screen time along with Ash. So hypothetically, if we had a special it'd most likely be around an hour to and hour and a half long, and it's just not enough to cover every character that well IMO, just my two cents on this topic.

Inb4 there's another dub switch for a special that causes TPCi/DuART dub fans to riot around the web
 
I doubt it. They'd have to extend the next generation because as said, 1000 will prolly be at best be 1/3rd though 8th gen
 
First of all, there are like tons of different numbering systems, most of which are fan-made and incorrect. So it's very hard to determine which episode is truly numbered a certain way. Especially if you go by the Japanese version.
Going by the dub it's easier, since that means only counting episodes that were dubbed and included as part of a certain season. Even then it can get messy considering things like the recent decision to remove three Season 2 episodes featuring Jynx.
And even then, while you could add up the amount of all dub eps included in the actual seasons, they usually refer to them officially by season numbering and not overall numbering. So the first XY ep is episode 1701, not 800-and-something.
At the end of the day numbering is meaningless and the people officially working on the show wouldn't do anything special for specific numbers. What they might do is try doing something special for certain time-based milestones, like the show or the whole franchise's 10th anniversary, that resulted in that... awful thing known as The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon that they billed as a 10th anniversary special. Maybe they can do something like that for the 20th anniversary, hopefully this time not being so obviously written by American staff and handled with more care to be something enjoyable.
Oh, and it's definitely not a reason to end the show... that's actually a very ridiculous idea, you're saying a TV show was successful enough to last this long and expect it to be randomly canceled? if anything, lasting this long and still being successful only makes it very likely it'll continue for a long time, just like the games...
I used to say it loooong ago and most people laughed at me, but Pokémon will continue forever. There's absolutely no reason to think they'd stop making Pokémon games ever, and as long as the games are around an anime will be there to promote it. Whether they keep Ash, retcon him (as some may argue they tried doing in BW, although they didn't really do that), or use a brand new hero, an anime will definitely be there. (and let's face it, Ash is staying at least for the near future if not for the entire run)
 
To Piplup: wait isnt number of so far aired episodes of regular main anime(exclusing specials) if we include those whoch never aired, were removed and banned ones around 854? That is i mean if we decide to count episodes by overall number reached in all seasons combined. Rather than viewing number of episodes separately by each season or saga?

Ah i actually liked Mastermind special. Voices were terrible for most characters and there were some irregularities, but personally i enjoyed in character interactions feeling natural and fun. Plot wasnt bad imo either reminding me in some aspects of Digimon through hologram aspect. But to each their own.

Although i agree how for 20th anniversary if OLM and pokemon company decides to delivere some threat to fans in general. They should put more effort, resources and creativity in this one because 20 years of existence is actually large and impressive feat in itself. My dream would be in each of Ash past companions getting some special/side episodes introducing them to new kids while giving update and insight in how much they changed to older fans continuing with their unresolved plots.

Leading to gathering all of them in some big movie at least 2 to 2,5 hour long to give enough time to feature decently every current and previous main character, have them interact between themselves and play prominent roles in story. Because with number of replaced characters 10 years later(we have 15 including Ash and TR) having length similar to 10th anniversary just wouldn't work becoming overcrowded catastrophe .

I know pokemon will never pull of something like Digimon is planning for its 20th annoversary by leaving fandom literally speechless, With announcement of revisiting very first generation of characters doing sequel to their stories going in new direction continuing from what happened in Digimon Adventure. Though i would liked that.

However at very least some foreplay(introduction) and big movie like special for 20 years milestone would be pretty amazing in my book. Im expecting too much but one can dream? :p

I see what your saying about fact of pokemon lasting for this long guaranteeing how it may continue to exist for many more years to come. At very least getting over 1000th episode count is guaranteed given how XY saga only reached its 1st year.

However i have hard time believing that anime will exist forever regardless of games being humongously popular like its case now.

Because there are many factors to take in account which might infuence its longevity. Like change of trends, new similar type of shows appearing on market competing for kids attention with pokemon, kids being less interested in watching TV and unpopular decisions and poor treatment of characters and plots from writer side causing show losing viewers that way as well.

There is also possibility of pokemon games not being successful forever either.

Not to mention i would find it pretty depressing and discouraging if pokemon anime as part of my childhood outlives every viewer and its fan being denied of ever attending to end game, finish line toward which Ash and every of his friends who mattered would walk toward. Receiving conclusion to their stories, dreams and what kind of future they would eventually have.
Rather than being privileged to get that during their lifetime because well humans cant live forever.

Maybe this is selfish from my side, but thats how i feel about it.
 
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When we have 1000 episodes they will celebrate it through giving us an hour long special when we see all Ashs pokemon in 5 second battles before the rest of the ep continues with only Charizard and Pikachu.
And then they will go on as usual.
 
Well if people really wanna know, let's calculate the total amount of episodes based on the official seasons, therefore not including any extras or Japanese only things:
Seasons 1-8 are 52 eps exactly each, which together is 416
Season 9 is 47 eps, so at the end of AG it's a total of 416 + 47 = 463
Season 10 is 51 eps
Season 11 is 52 eps
Season 12 is 52 eps
Season 13 is 34 eps, so at the end of DP it's a total of 463 + 51 + 52 +52 + 34 = 652
Season 14 is 48 eps
Season 15 is 49 eps
Season 16 is 45 eps, so at the end of BW it's a total of 652 + 48 + 49 + 45 = 794
We still can't be too sure how many eps exactly Season 17 will have but it seems like a safe bet they'd stick to the usual 52 probably. Assuming that's the case if we add Season 17 we'll get a total amount of 846 eps. (again this excludes anything that isn't part of the official seasons. so no Pokémon Chronicles, movies, shorts, any other sort of extras, and obviously no Japanese-only content)
Personally I'd rather not count a yet unfinished Season, so I'd say right now we're at 794, until the moment Season 17 truly ends its run.
Gen 7 will definitely get us into the 1000 mark, but then again it is a completely meaningless "milestone" that no one officially working on the show would do anything special for. If anything, place your bets on something being done for the 20th or 25th anniversary of the show or the entire franchise, and even then we better not really expect too much if anything at all. But time-based expectations make more sense.
EDIT: I knew I forgot to mention something... as you all know, there was a recent decision to remove 3 episodes featuring Jynx from Season 2. It's up to you to decide if you're going with that in mind or not, but you wanna apply removing these eps from existence like they seem to officially do right now, do a minus three to my calculation... so at the end of BW it's 794 - 3 = 791 total
 
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the pokemon anime will never end, so yeah it will prob make it to a thousandth english dubbed episodes. Like Dogasu said, the show resets every series in japan. Each series is it's own show there.
 
Dogasu said:
Japan resets the numbering at the start of each series so they're never going to reach the 1000 episode mark.

Japanese fans don't treat the entire franchise as one long series.
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I don't wanna sound like a yes man but I agree with Dogasu. Every ''season'' of the anime is considered a different series entirely in Japan. That is why they re-title the Pokémon anime. I expect to see the anime as long as the Pokémon franchise in general remains popular worldwide. But I doubt this to happen (the anime adaptation ending) in the next two decades or so.
 
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