Season

If you were looking for the game mechanic introduced in Generation V, see seasons.

A season of the Pokémon anime is a collection of dubbed episodes that air for the first time between September and June (Seasons 1-9), between April or May through the following spring (Seasons 10-13) or in February (Seasons 14-present). They usually share an opening, and are often 52 or fewer episodes long. There is no distinction between these dubbed seasons in the original Japanese airings, except when the seasons' beginnings and endings coincide with those of a new series in Japan. Each season also has a movie that corresponds to it, though the pairing of a movie with a specific anime season is merely due to the annual release they undergo in Japan.

It should be noted that the concept of seasons does not exist in Japan, where episodes of Pokémon air nearly every Thursday. An invention of the American broadcast industry, a season is typically aired new for nine months out of the year, with three months (usually during the summer) taken off to begin production for the next season, during which reruns air. The Japanese release schedule was eventually adopted by Pokémon USA (now known as The Pokémon Company International) after 4Kids Entertainment lost dubbing rights, likely due to the issues that resulted from the series's summer gaps, such as the Advanced Generation series not beginning in earnest until more than half a year after the games had been released.

List of seasons

Season	Opening theme	Debut episode	Final episode
Indigo League	Pokémon Theme	EP001 Pokémon - I Choose You!	EP083 Poké Ball Peril
Adventures in the Orange Islands	Pokémon World	EP084 The Lost Lapras	EP116 The Rivalry Revival
The Johto Journeys	Pokémon Johto	EP117 Don't Touch That 'dile	EP157 The Fortune Hunters
Johto League Champions	Born to Be a Winner	EP158 A Goldenrod Opportunity	EP209 Machoke, Machoke Man!
Master Quest	Believe in Me	EP210 Around the Whirlpool	EP274 Hoenn Alone!
Advanced	I Wanna Be a Hero	AG001 Get the Show on the Road	AG040 Watt's with Wattson
Advanced Challenge	This Dream	AG041 What You Seed is What You Get	AG092 Judgment Day!
Advanced Battle	Unbeatable	AG093 Clamperl of Wisdom!	AG145 Pasta La Vista!
Battle Frontier	Battle Frontier	AG146 Fear Factor Phony	AG192 Home is Where the Start Is!
Diamond and Pearl	Diamond and Pearl	DP001 Following a Maiden's Voyage!	DP052 Smells Like Team Spirit!
Diamond & Pearl: Battle Dimension	We Will Be Heroes	DP053 Tears For Fears!	DP104 Sleepless in Pre-Battle!
Diamond & Pearl: Galactic Battles	Battle Cry - (Stand Up!)	DP105 Get Your Rotom Running!	DP157 Gotta Get A Gible!
Diamond & Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors	We Will Carry On!	DP158 Regaining the Home Advantage!	DP191 Memories are Made of Bliss!
Pokémon: Black & White	Black and White	BW001 In the Shadow of Zekrom!	BW048 Battle for the Underground!
Pokémon Black & White: Rival Destinies	Rival Destinies	BW049 Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader!	BW096 Meloetta and the Undersea Temple!