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Technically, the Japanese series doesn't have "seasons," but if we're going by openings, then yes, the 10th opening debuted with the Inazuma episode.
Technically, the Japanese series doesn't have "seasons," but if we're going by openings, then yes, the 10th opening debuted with the Inazuma episode.
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In the U.S., Season 9 has 52 episodes. That means Season 10 won't begin until probably the D/P region. Unless the 52nd episode in Japan happens shortly.
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I know about the opening. I even made 8 posts on the relevant forum thread.
I was just wondering if this is really the start of season 10, especially with the rumours of another new opening on the way soon.
I was just wondering if this is really the start of season 10, especially with the rumours of another new opening on the way soon.
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The next new opening won't be made till the D/P saga. Why would they make a new opening and just ditch it so soon? That makes no sense.
I think we can throw the 52-rule out the window, just based on the fact that the last episode of the first season - Pikachu's Goodbye, of course - was episode 39, wasn't it?
Although if this is season 10, it'll likely be a very short season - D/P should be out around the end of the summer, or some time like that? So the Battle Frontier saga, even at its longest, shouldn't be too long-lived after this point. In fact, that made me wonder why they are releasing a new opening now, when the end of Battle Frontier is rather close at hand... you don't suppose it's going to last much longer than we think? Which would either mean lots of fillers, something post-BF, or both...
Although if this is season 10, it'll likely be a very short season - D/P should be out around the end of the summer, or some time like that? So the Battle Frontier saga, even at its longest, shouldn't be too long-lived after this point. In fact, that made me wonder why they are releasing a new opening now, when the end of Battle Frontier is rather close at hand... you don't suppose it's going to last much longer than we think? Which would either mean lots of fillers, something post-BF, or both...
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Nah, the last episode of Season 1 was "The Breeding Center secret," which was the first ep. with Butch and Cassidy.
The dub has ALWAYS stuck to the 52 episode rule. KidsWb only orders 52 episode seasons, which is why 4kids only dubs 52 episodes per year. Dogasu can explain it better than me.
D/P aren't coming out till the Fall last I heard.
What? No, I was quite certain it was Pikachu's Goodbye, which was their whole reason for airing that heart-string puller. And if it was that episode, it'd still break the rule, since that's 57, isn't it? 55 if you skip the Dratini and Porygon episodes.Scott85 said:
And it's not the English dub under discussion here - it's the original Japanese, which is what Spurt has become the new intro for.
And yes, I knew it was either late summer or fall. I said late summer because of wishful thinking. ^^o
Actually, you're both kind of right and kind of wrong on the American seasons bit judging by Bulbapedia's air dates.
The first season INDEED was 52 episode long, began on September 8, 1998 (Pokémon, I chose you!), and ended on May 1, 1999 (The Breeding Center Secret).
That's 52 episodes, Pie, because :
-Dratini and Porygon were banned,
-Beauty and the Beach was not unbanned until much later (it aired only in June 2000).
-Purr-Fect Hero and Princess vs Princess were not aired in the US until september of 1999, where they actually were the first two episodes of season 2 (4th and 11th).
However, the schedule for the first season of pokémon went something like this :
From September 8 to October 30, episodes aired MOSTLY in order, on a near-daily basis, all the way to March of the Exxecutor Squad. Only one episode was skipped in that schedule : Pikachu's Good-Bye. After october 30, no new episodes aired until november 20, which saw Pikachu's Good-Bye airing.
After that, it went until february before the story picked up again, with The Problem with Paras. Pokémon then went on airing on a mostly weekly basis, until The Breeding Center Secret, in May.
So one COULD make a case for season I actually being made up of Season 1-A (which would indeed end with Pikachu's Goodbye) and 1-B (1999 and 2000) due to the enormous gap from November 20, 1998 to February 13, 1999 - nearly a three-months gap.
The first season INDEED was 52 episode long, began on September 8, 1998 (Pokémon, I chose you!), and ended on May 1, 1999 (The Breeding Center Secret).
That's 52 episodes, Pie, because :
-Dratini and Porygon were banned,
-Beauty and the Beach was not unbanned until much later (it aired only in June 2000).
-Purr-Fect Hero and Princess vs Princess were not aired in the US until september of 1999, where they actually were the first two episodes of season 2 (4th and 11th).
However, the schedule for the first season of pokémon went something like this :
From September 8 to October 30, episodes aired MOSTLY in order, on a near-daily basis, all the way to March of the Exxecutor Squad. Only one episode was skipped in that schedule : Pikachu's Good-Bye. After october 30, no new episodes aired until november 20, which saw Pikachu's Good-Bye airing.
After that, it went until february before the story picked up again, with The Problem with Paras. Pokémon then went on airing on a mostly weekly basis, until The Breeding Center Secret, in May.
So one COULD make a case for season I actually being made up of Season 1-A (which would indeed end with Pikachu's Goodbye) and 1-B (1999 and 2000) due to the enormous gap from November 20, 1998 to February 13, 1999 - nearly a three-months gap.
Ah, okay, that makes sense. XD
Still, I didn't have much doubt in the case of the American version - I was speaking in terms of the original Japanese, which I thought Scott85 was referring to. The 52 rule still doesn't really work with the Japanese, does it?
Still, I didn't have much doubt in the case of the American version - I was speaking in terms of the original Japanese, which I thought Scott85 was referring to. The 52 rule still doesn't really work with the Japanese, does it?
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Japanese TV doesn't really have *seasons* since new episodes air year-round (for the most part) without any hiatuses. We Americans need to realize that we can't apply what *our* TV networks do to a foreign network that doesn't really do things the way we do.